Everton have a number of former academy graduates plying their trade around Europe.
Tyias Browning is playing his football in China and has actually won multiple league titles with Shanghai Port and Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao.
The likes of Ellis Simms, Tom Cannon and Lewis Dobbin, who were all highly-rated attackers at Everton, are now in the Championship.
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Isaac Price is also in the second tier with West Bromwich Albion, and he’s made a tremendous start to the season.
Now, a former Everton youngster who actually made his debut in the Europa League is banging in the goals in the German second tier.
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Former Everton youngster Fraser Hornby flourishing in Germany
Fraser Hornby came through the ranks at Finch Farm and had a good goalscoring record with the under-21s.
Hornby made his debut for Everton in December 2017 during a 3-0 win against Apollon Limassol in the Europa League.
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That was his only senior appearance for the club before he left in a £1.7m transfer to Stade Reims during the summer of 2020.
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Hornby now plies his trade in the German second tier with SV Darmstadt 98, and he’s been banging in the goals this season.
The 26-year-old has registered 11 goal involvements in 15 games this term and netted two at the weekend against SpVgg Greuther Furth.
German football expert Derek Rae, who commentates for ESPN, took to his X account on the weekend to heap praise on Hornby.
“Fraser Hornby had a dreamy Saturday in Darmstadt‘s 4:2 win with 2 superb goals,” Rae said.
“Continues to be one of the best performers in the 2. Bundesliga. Again – as with Burke – must ask people to judge the player now, as opposed to the one they may remember from a few years ago.”
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With the way Hornby is developing, it wouldn’t at all be surprising to see him return to England in one of the transfer windows next year.
Perhaps a top-end Championship club will take a calculated gamble on the former Everton centre-forward.
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