Season › 2017-18 › News Mathis back with Everton's U23s Tuesday, 10 April, 2018 4comments | Jump to most recent Boris Mathis has returned to Finch Farm having had his loan spell with Northampton Town terminated early. Caretaker-manager Dean Austin, who has taken over first-team affairs at the League One club following the dismissal of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, has revealed that he made the move in an effort to circle the wagons and ensure that everybody in his team is committed to fighting relegation this season. The Cobblers are in the drop zone of the third tier and in danger of going down to League Two as a consequence of the nine straight defeats that cost Hasselbaink his job. "I made the decision about Boris," Austin is quoted by the Liverpool Echo as saying over the weekend after Mathis's final appearance for Northampton, a 20-plus minute cameo in a heavy home defeat to Charlton Athletic. "You have to make decisions as a manager that you think are going to help the group," he explained, with the inference being that, in Austin's view, Mathis's heart was not in the battle to keep Northampton up. "I need people around who want to play for this football club, players that will give their heart and soul and every last drop of sweat and blood for this team and do what they've got to do to get the results we strive for." Article continues below video content Mathis was signed by David Unsworth last summer from Metz for Everton's development side. He suffered an injury early in his Blues career before being loaned to Northampton earlier this year to gain first-team experience. Now back in Merseyside, he played in the U23s' 4-0 home reverse to West Ham last night, a game that also saw Shani Tarshaj play the first 45 minutes in his first taste of action in a Blue shirt since recovering from knee surgery. Reader Comments (4) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer Dick Fearon 1 Posted 10/04/2018 at 11:34:14 If he can't cut the mustard at Northampton, we should give him up as a lost cause. Dick Fearon 2 Posted 10/04/2018 at 11:35:58 I would say the same about any of our loanees in similar situations. Matthew Williams 4 Posted 11/04/2018 at 15:35:44 It's our senior players who are now a lost cause, Dick! John Smith 5 Posted 11/04/2018 at 17:13:22 Northhampton has had financial difficulties and had to send all their loanees back. However Mathis didn't score there. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. About these ads