Everton boss Rafa Benitez admits he needs to rethink things regarding Jarrad Branthwaite.
Benitez says Everton will review plans to send Branthwaite on loan after the teenager produced a goal-scoring performance against Chelsea.
The 19-year-old, who signed a new long-term contract last week, has been ready to find a loan move in the January transfer window.
"At the beginning, when I was thinking about him, I saw a young player who could train with us and be coached by us and he could improve, I wanted to see him and he was training really well," he said,
"I had the conversation with my staff and over the last two weeks he has been training really well so you can see he is improving and progressing.
"You want to keep players with us if you think they can improve.
"Ok, we will see now and also with covid around we have to be very careful, like today. We had 10-12 players unavailable.
"It was really important to see the young players doing well."
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