Harry Charsley has been released by Everton following the expiration of his contract, Duncan Ferguson confirmed to the Liverpool Echo. The 23-year-old was due to leave Everton over the summer, but he was given a short-term deal after suffering a serious back injury towards the end of last season.
Now he’s returned to fitness, however, Everton are letting him go to forge a career for himself. Ferguson said: “Harry has been released. His deal was only until January and we were trying to help him out because we had a small squad this year.
“He got injured on our watch so we felt we had an obligation and we felt we had to do the right thing by offering him a six-month contract which we duly did and obviously got him fit over pre-season and got him a few games and profile in the shop window.
“And now that’s a matter for Harry to carve himself a career hopefully at the highest level possible for him.” Charsley has been at Everton since the age of nine, but he’s only made one appearance for the first-team – playing 90 minutes in a 3-0 win over Apollon Limassol (December 7, 2017).
The midfielder has featured over 100 times for the u23, scoring and creating 21 goals, but he’s never managed to convince any manager that he was worth promoting. With the likes of Morgan Schneiderlin, Tom Davies, Andre Gomes, Jean-Philippe Gbamin and Fabian Delph for competition, he never stood a chance of breaking through.
Everton got Charsley back to fitness and have given him 954 minutes of football for the reserves this season, so it’s now up to the player to find himself a new club.