Fifteen Everton players could say farewell after final match vs Arsenal as big summer decisions await

Everton’s ‘to do’ list for this summer will be significant regardless of the state of the club’s finances.

Uncertainty lingers over precisely what Sean Dyche and director of football Kevin Thelwell will be able to do with the squad - both the protracted takeover and a yet-to-be-heard battle over the accounting of interest linked to stadium loans present challenges when it comes to forward-planning.

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Loan players to return to parent clubs

An already threadbare squad will initially get smaller with the two loan signings returning to their parent clubs when the season concludes. The exits of Arnaut Danjuma and Jack Harrison will severely diminish Dyche’s attacking options out wide, leaving Dwight McNeil as the only recognised senior wide player in the ranks. Danjuma has struggled to make an impression since signing from Villarreal, falling in prominence after McNeil and Harrison returned from injuries at the start of the campaign.

As the 27-year-old looked set for a role amid January’s injury crisis he then suffered the misfortune of a serious ankle injury in the final minutes of the draw at Fulham. He has now returned to fitness but is yet to have made it back onto the pitch for Dyche despite being named on the bench in recent matches.

Harrison, on the other hand, has been a stalwart