Everton are set to sell Nathan Broadhead this summer, with clubs queuing up to sign a Welsh U21 international with just one year left on his contract, according to the Liverpool Echo.
While Carlo Ancelotti has shown plenty of faith in the Toffees’ next generation since the re-start, handing teenagers Jarrad Branthwaite and Anthony Gordon a key first-team role, it seems the Bangor-born winger has missed the boat.
At the age of 22, Broadhead is dangerously close to the cut off point for under-23 football.
As a result, he has no real choice but to look beyond life at Everton, 12 years after joining the Merseyside giants from Wrexham in his native Wales.
Broadhead was named Everton’s Player of the Year at reserve level in 2019 and now has some senior experience under his belt after spending the following season on loan at Burton Albion, impressing in League One even if the goals dried up early on.
And the Echo reports that those eye-catching displays at the Pirelli Stadium have caught the eye of a whole host of interested parties with Everton open to offers.
“He’s terrific,” David Unsworth, The Toffees’s always affable U23 coach, told the Echo in May 2019.
“He’s a top young player and one of the best players I’ve worked with at this level. I hope he goes on and has a wonderful career because his ability certainly deserves that.”
Broadhead certainly has the speed, skill and shooting ability to carve out that ‘wonderful career’ – but it seems unlikely that his potential will be unlocked at the club he joined at the tender age of just 10.
Though, as Wigan’s former Everton youngster Antonee Robinson will tell you amid links with countless Premier League clubs and a flirtation with AC Milan, leaving Goodison Park does not mean you’re destined for the scrapheap.
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