What happened next to the six prospects who shone on Everton's last overseas tour
Two of Everton’s young starlets shone in Switzerland as Sean Dyche’s first pre-season with the club began with a win over Stade Nyonnais.
Katia Kouyate and Francis Okoronkwo played game-changing roles in a match that was not about the result but which still offered encouragement to the Blues boss. Everton’s academy starlets will get more opportunities to impress over the coming weeks.
And with some of them getting their first chance to show Dyche their talents while on tour, the conclusion of the Alpine camp offers a backdrop against which to look back on the trip to Australia in November, the club's last foreign tour, during which several youngsters also played influential parts.
During the 5-1 demolition of Western Sydney Wanderers there were six academy prospects who made it onto the pitch, plus Finch Farm graduate and hat-trick hero Anthony Gordon. Billy Crellin was also in the squad - though the young goalkeeper did not make it onto the pitch as then manager Frank Lampard instead handed Andy Lonergan his first minutes since joining the Blues.
Half a season on from that feel-good victory on the banks of the Parramatta River, this is what happened next for that clutch of players - Rhys Welch, Joe Anderson, Stanley Mills, Sebastian Quirk, Isaac Price and Tom Cannon. Like Gordon, almost all of them will be playing football away from Merseyside next season - but for vastly contrasting reasons.
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