Everton boss Sean Dyche will wait till pre-season to run the rule over returning loanee striker Tom Cannon, sources have instructed Soccer Insider.
The 20-year-old introduced an finish to a vastly profitable half-season keep at Preston North Finish final weekend as they rounded off the 2022-23 Championship marketing campaign in opposition to Sunderland.
Cannon scored eight objectives in his 20 second-tier appearances in Lancashire, a return that has prompted supervisor Ryan Lowe to brazenly focus on his want to deliver him again to Deepdale subsequent time period.
In fact, Cannon’s private focus is prone to be on impressing Dyche and proving that he’s worthy of a spot within the first-team squad at Goodison Park going ahead.
Nonetheless, Soccer Insider understands he must wait till the summer season to try this, with the Toffees opting to not recall their loanees to coaching even with their season completed.
Cannon could be ineligible to characteristic within the membership’s 4 remaining Premier League video games as a result of registration guidelines after his mortgage stint at North Finish.
However the possibility to permit him to hitch the senior squad at Finch Farm was open and has not been taken by Dyche.
The Republic of Eire U21 worldwide will as a substitute start his summer season break earlier than returning to Everton forward of the 2023-24 marketing campaign.
Cannon lately spoke of the advantages of his stint at Preston, saying: “I really feel like since I walked by way of the door it’s simply flown and I’ve totally loved it.
“To be truthful, folks most likely checked out an U23 participant coming to the Championship as a primary mortgage as possibly robust, however I believed I’m going to return right here and simply relish it.
“I knew I had the belief from the gaffer and the workers and to get that was good, and it gave me an actual confidence enhance.
“Since I’ve been right here I really feel like I’ve executed properly and the objectives have additionally performed their half as properly so it’s all good.”
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