David Moyes insists ahead of Manchester United's trip to Hill Dickinson Stadium that Tyler Dibling will get chances at Everton before the end of the season
Everton manager David Moyes has reiterated his faith in his most expensive signing of last summer by insisting that Tyler Dibling will get chances before the end of the season.
Dibling joined for £35million from Southampton last summer, but has yet to complete 90 minutes for the Blues at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Following the arrival of Tyrique George, who is less than a fortnight older than Dibling on loan from Chelsea on transfer deadline day of the winter window, with an option for a permanent deal in the summer, Moyes was asked what he’d react if he was the former Saints player and replied: “I’d be thinking I better get my finger out and show the manager what I was really all about.”
However, when speaking today in his pre-match press conference to preview Everton’s home game against Manchester United, following Dibling’s 20th birthday on Tuesday, the Glaswegian gaffer said: “I think he’s one who we think we’ve got a really good, talented player on our hands. We need him to develop and get used to us a little bit.
“He’ll probably need a little bit of time. Even me looking towards the start of next season, I’m saying pre-season friendlies etcetera, all those things will help get him more established than when we got him in.
“Look, he’s beginning to learn a lot more about us. He’ll get game time I’m sure between now and the end of the season, so it’s good.
“I didn’t realise it was his birthday, I feel terrible now because I didn’t realise! He’s a quiet boy as you can see.”
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Moyes is also hoping that a 13-day break between fixtures helps his Senegal international pair Idrissa Gueye and Iliman Ndiaye following their triumphant return from winning the Africa Cup of Nations. He said: “Hopefully they’ve now got themselves back into the speed of the Premier League.
"I thought both of them had started to pick up in the last game, they both started to show they were getting back to what I thought the speed of the Premier League is and the intensity of what is required here.”
Moyes has one enforced change to make against the Red Devils with Jake O’Brien suspended following his sending off against Bournemouth.
Although Nathan Patterson offers an alternative as a natural right-back, the Blues boss also confirmed that club captain Seamus Coleman, 37, who made his only Premier League start of the season in the reverse fixture at Old Trafford, is fit and available for selection, having not been in the matchday squad for the previous two matches.