Luke Butterfield signs new 3-year deal
Everton Under-21s midfielder Luke Butterfield, who is currently sidelined with a knee injury, has signed a new 3-year deal with the club.
This comes well in advance of his current 3-year deal expiring in July 2023 and signals further commitment the club is making to promising youngsters coming through the ranks of the Academy.
Born in Yorkshire, Butterfield has been capped by Scotland at Under-16 level. He joined Everton's Academy at Under-12 level from Blackburn Rovers and has impressed throughout.
Butterfield emerged as a key player for Paul Tait's Everton Under-18s in 2020-21 and produced the most exhilarating moment of the campaign when he scored a stunning 98th-minute winner to knock holders Manchester City out of the FA Youth Cup at the 4th Round stage.
As well as being a consistent starter for Everton Under-18s, Butterfield made six appearances for David Unsworth's Under-23s in 2020-21 and moved up to secure his place at that level from the start of the 2021-22 season.
However, he would drop back down to the U18s for a few months in mid-season, before returning to appear in a total of 20 games for the U23s.
This season started badly for Luke when he sustained a knee injury in the second game of the U21s new season.
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2 Posted 05/10/2022 at 22:40:40
3 Posted 05/10/2022 at 22:51:29
4 Posted 06/10/2022 at 20:28:00
He's a 19-year-old Academy defender but the strange thing is he hardly ever plays. He managed to feature in just two U23 games last season. Yet was given his first professional contract of just 1 year last summer – that was on the back of a scholarship that had been extended to 3 years.
The recent flurry of Academy contracts has had me checking through all our info, and he is indeed a strange one. Only mention that I can find of him having injury problems is a comment he made when he signed that 1-year deal.
5 Posted 06/10/2022 at 20:28:00
He's a 19-year-old Academy defender but the strange thing is he hardly ever plays. He managed to feature in just two U23 games last season. Yet was given his first professional contract of just 1 year last summer – that was on the back of a scholarship that had been extended to 3 years.
The recent flurry of Academy contracts has had me checking through all our info, and he is indeed a strange one. Only mention that I can find of him having injury problems is a comment he made when he signed that 1-year deal.
6 Posted 06/10/2022 at 20:41:20
I think it's good business to be giving the most potential slightly longer contracts to develop with us and probably hardly registers on the balance sheet.
7 Posted 06/10/2022 at 20:56:30
I thought this was something that was brought in for, and also more commonly used, by the lower league clubs, because they have very little money, but it's a positive imo, because it helps to keep young kids in the game, that little bit longer to see how they develop.
I think he must have had a serious injury, but Everton must see something in the kid, because it's unusual to get a professional contract if you are not playing regular football.
8 Posted 06/10/2022 at 21:13:25
And I'd like to think the first sentence is because it looks like we failed to report that contract signing when it happened at the end of June, so you can blame me – falling down on the job!
9 Posted 06/10/2022 at 21:19:04
Of course, in this day and age, it's all done on spreadsheets, databases, or purpose-built apps on their iPads.
10 Posted 06/10/2022 at 21:43:10
11 Posted 07/10/2022 at 22:34:30
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1 Posted 05/10/2022 at 22:32:42
But this is yet another one extending the experience base of the Finch Farm physios in rehab with, yes, yet another knee injury.