Garbutt: I'll go anywhere to play football

Hopefully he gets a good run in the Pie-eaters first team and turns promise to performance. After all, that's what Seamus did at Blackpool and he's never looked back.

Who is next for the treatment – Holgate?

I'm only thinking aloud really and have no factual basis for it, but has Luke Garbutt applied himself recently in the same way as seamus did at Blackpool?

Yeah, Luke, I don't know how you cope mate. £15,000 a week to play footy Monday to Friday. You must cry yourself to sleep every night.

Garbutt – who knows what's happened to the kid, perplexing to say the least.

But football at the top flight is a hard tough business, and there are very few who come through the ranks and make it to be regular first team players. I don't know if Koeman sees a future at Everton for either Garbutt or Galloway. At present we have Coleman, Holgate, Jagielka, Williams, Baines, Oviedo and Funes Mori fighting for 4 spots. So giving Garbutt and Galloway playing time on loan makes sense for both of the players as well as the club. I am sure by this summer they will know if their future is at Everton or elsewhere.

It's not just about ability. It's about attitude and application too. Only our management team are in a position to judge.

Let's hope Garbutt is good enough but, if not, no big deal. We all had high hopes for Jose Baxter, George Green, John-Paul Kissock and others too. Haven't heard a lot about them since!

"At present we have Coleman, Holgate, Jagielka, Williams, Baines, Oviedo and Funes Mori fighting for 4 spots. So giving Garbutt and Galloway playing time on loan makes sense."

I agree, Brian; Jagielka, Williams, & Baines are all in their thirties and Oviedo has gone backward since his terrible injury. Galloway will be a top Premier League player in my opinion. He moves so smoothly, he makes Stones look clumsy. I rate that lad.

Similarly neither had Oviedo. (I think his goal at Old Trafford blinded a fair few people.)

Galloway is the real deal.

Keep going, lad!!!

He has gone on loan to Fulham and Wigan enabling Everton to at least recoup the money they laid out on him and also at the same time giving the lad the time to learn at these clubs. He has had a few injuries, to be honest to the lad, so he is coming to the time when his potential has been assessed and his future is up to him.

It doesn't look like to me he has progressed really from when he made Everton's first team, so this season will be make or break for him even if he has another couple more years on Everton's payroll. I hope he does enough from now on to get another contract from the Blues but it looks doubtful to me.

He was extremely poor, lacked concentration and awareness. He has good recovery though which is just as well but IMO he is a million miles off a first team spot for a club with top 4 ambition.

Tyias injured his knee ligaments during an U21 match with Blackburn Rovers. It was back in December I think and he has also undergone a surgery. It takes usually 6 - 9 months to full recovery. But now he is already in training. With that kind of injury there is nowhere to rush.

He says the right things about going anywhere to play but, until he realises that defenders have got to be brave and sometimes have to put their bodies on the line, then I think he will continue to struggle.

Harsh but true; however, with a big fat contract before he had really proved himself, maybe the kid really doesn't have to change?

I suppose much will depend on the manager and whether he sees the full backs as defenders or wingers. It would appear that at present Koeman is favouring defenders who defend first and foremost, so his chances of getting in our team must be rated as slim .

On a general note, I would like to see more of our young lads getting a start.

It was, after all, Moyes, who signed Garbutt from Leeds although he spent most of his time on loan at the likes of Chelmsford and Colchester just like virtually every other kid we 'snap up 'from the lower leagues.

Stones and Coleman are the only exceptions.

After the few games I have seen Garbutt play in my opinion is he's a decent player with a wand of a left foot.

He's got to be worth a chance under Koeman, his set pieces are outstanding, and he looked the part for England U21s.

As one correspondent put it, we don't know what goes on behind the closed doors at Goodison Park or Finch Farm, but now we're telling the same young lad, he's no future and is at best fourth-choice left back. Doesn't sound like the best HR around.

Footballers may earn obscene amounts of money, but they are still people and need handling with some sensitivity.