Everton boss Sean Dyche has sung the praises of Jarrad Branthwaite.

Dyche is happy leaning on the young defender this season.

He said, "He's adapted well. There are things he still needs to work on, but you unravel a player slowly, you can't just fast-track everything into them and say 'that's it'.

"So while he's developing nicely and while he's learning, sometimes the hardest thing is not to coach at all when you just step away and you go 'no, no, you're fine, you keep doing what you're doing'. There's the odd little team, tactical pointers, but I'm not breaking it down every game and saying 'you've got to do this, you've got to do that'. Let him naturally learn as he develops."

On keeping Branthwaite this summer, he added: “We don't want to sell any good players. It's as simple as that and he's proven to be a very good player. We're not in the business of trying to sell players. You only sell players if you have to sell players or there's a problem. There's no problem, therefore I'm just hoping we don't need to sell players. At the minute, we certainly don't. so we will see."