Feeney must be first Everton player to receive new Allardyce contract

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Morgan Feeney made his second appearance for Everton on Thursday night.

Everton have a number of players set to enter the final months of their contract at Goodison Park and manager Sam Allardyce must weigh up whether a number of his first-team stars are worth keeping.

Aaron Lennon, Joel Robles and Ross Barkley will all enter the final six months of their Everton contracts if they are not offered a new deal before December 30, which can see clubs look to sign them on a pre-contract basis.

However, Allardyce’s first new contract as Everton manager should be handed to young defender Morgan Feeney, after the 18-year-old made his full debut for the Toffees on Thursday night.

The Bootle-born teenager started alongside Mo Besic at centre-back during the 3-0 win over Apollon Limassol in the Europa League, helping the Merseyside club keep their first clean sheet in Europe this season.

Looking calm and assured at the back, boyhood Everton fan Feeney was more than comfortable in keeping out the Limassol attack as Toffees goalkeeper Robles was hardly challenged throughout the match in Cyprus.

Everton are known for their faith in youth and Feeney boasts the quality necessary to become another academy product to breakthrough the ranks, following in the footsteps of Jonjoe Kenny, Tom Davies and Beni Baningime.

Showing the kind of potential that could see him become an Everton mainstay in the future, Allardyce must hand Feeney a new deal as his current contract will expire on June 30.