Speaking on the latest episode of the Gwlad Tidings podcast, The Athletic’s Everton correspondent Paddy Boyland says Toffees midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin still has something to offer at the highest level if he is put up for sale this summer.

What did he say?

Well, Boyland was asked whether they Merseyside outfit would be able to find buyers for the likes of the Frenchman, Yannick Bolasie and Sandro Ramirez during the upcoming transfer window if they wanted to move them on.

The journalist replied (45:50): “It will depend on the interest in somebody like Schneiderlin, who could generate interest because he’s still got something to offer at the highest level. He’d have to take a wage cut, and this is the big problem.”

Will Schneiderlin stay?

It looks unlikely, you’d have thought.

The 30-year-old, who is currently side-lined through injury but won’t be missing out in the next three weeks with the Premier League suspended until April 3, only has just over a year remaining on his contract at Goodison Park.

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Because of his age you wouldn’t have thought that he would be given a long-term extension to that deal, while he has only started to impress in more recent weeks under Carlo Ancelotti before he picked up the issue – earlier in the campaign he was slated by supporters on Twitter for his displays.

However, you do also have to probably say that the former Southampton and Manchester United man has only been a regular in the XI because of the long-term injuries suffered by Jean-Philippe Gbamin and Andre Gomes earlier in the campaign, with the latter now back in action.

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With Tom Davies, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Fabian Delph also present at Everton, and with reports suggesting that the Italian wanted a new central midfielder during the January transfer window, it appears as though the writing could be on the wall for someone like Schneiderlin.

Boyland’s comment that he still has something to offer at the highest level is certainly an interesting one, given for example that he dropped a 3/10 performance in the dismal defeat against Liverpool in the FA Cup at the start of 2020.

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