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Report: Midfielder could join Everton first-team this season

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According to Sam Carroll of the Liverpool Echo, Dennis Adeniran will join the Everton first-team this season. The 21-year-old has spent the season with the u23s, but he’s been recently called up to the first-team by Carlo Ancelotti due to Everton’s injury crisis in midfield. Whether he nails down a regular place remains to be seen, however.

Adeniran joined Everton from Fulham in 2017 and has yet to make a first-team appearance. As per Transfermarkt, he’s turned out 50 times for the u23s, scoring and creating five goals. The former England u19 international was an unused substitute in Everton’s EFL Cup defeat to Leicester City (December 18, 2019), but he’s not made the squad on any other occasion.

With Andre Gomes (leg) and Jean-Philippe Gbamin (thigh) being long-term absentees, Everton have been short on options in the engine room. Fabian Delph and Morgan Schneiderlin have suffered knocks of their own recently too, forcing Mason Holgate to operate in a makeshift midfield role.

With Adeniran out of contract in 18 months, he’s running out of time to prove he’s worth keeping. Training with the first-team isn’t enough, he needs to be playing.

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