Thomas Davies ( hold 30 June 1998 ) is an english professional football player who plays as a cardinal midfielder for Premier League baseball club Everton. He was a former England national under-21 team player. Davies is an academy graduate of Everton and made his first-team debut in April 2016 at the age of 17. Two years late, he became the youngest player to captain the side, doing so at the age of 20 years and 60 days .
early and personal life [edit ]
Davies was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. [ 4 ] He is the nephew of erstwhile Everton player Alan Whittle, who made 74 appearances for the club between 1967 and 1972, and his older buddy, Liam, is a semi-professional football player who plays for Bala Town. [ 5 ] Davies does volunteer knead with the Sunday Supper Project, a local charity organization aimed at supporting Liverpool ‘s homeless residential district. [ 6 ]
Club career [edit ]
Everton [edit ]
Davies is an academy graduate of Everton, having joined the clubhouse at the age of 11. [ 7 ] He became a freshman scholar ahead of the 2014–15 season and was promoted to the under-21s at the end of that political campaign. [ 8 ] Davies continued to play regularly for the under-21s the keep up season and signed his first base professional abridge on 30 September 2015. His form was rewarded when he was handed his Premier League debut by director Roberto Martínez on 16 April 2016, coming on as an 83rd-minute substitute for Darron Gibson in a 1–1 pull with Southampton at Goodison Park. [ 9 ] On the concluding day of the Premier League season, following the dismissal of Martínez, Davies was handed his first base startle for Everton by interim director David Unsworth in a 3–0 gain over Norwich City. [ 10 ] His performance over the course of the 90 minutes earned him the man of the match award. [ 8 ]
Davies playing for Everton in 2017 Having previously featured on occasion from the substitutes ‘ bench, Davies made his first depart of the 2016–17 Premier League crusade on 2 January 2017 and registered his first serve for Everton in a 3–0 winnings over Southampton. [ 11 ] He scored his first goal for the club 13 days subsequently when he scored in a 4–0 league victory over Manchester City. His performance besides saw him named man of the match. [ 12 ] On 9 April, he scored the joint-fastest goal of the temper when he netted after just 30 seconds in a 4–2 acquire over reigning champions Leicester City. [ 13 ] The following month. at the club ‘s end of season awards dinner, Davies was named Everton ‘s Young Player of the year and besides won the Goal of the Season and Performance of the Season honor for his character in the victory over Manchester City. [ 14 ] The follow season, during the early stages of the campaign under coach Ronald Koeman, Everton lost six of their orifice twelve matches during which Davies was predominantly used as an option from the bench and struggled to find mannequin. [ 15 ] He returned to form following the appointee of Sam Allardyce and in February 2018 was named by the CIES Football Observatory as the world ‘s seventh-most bright football player under the age of 20. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Later that calendar month he made his fiftieth Premier League appearance for the club in a 1–0 get the better of to Watford. [ 16 ]
On 29 August 2018, under new club coach Marco Silva, Davies captained Everton for the first meter in a 3–1 EFL Cup victory over Rotherham. In doing so, and at the historic period of 20 years and 60 days, he became the youngest actor to always captain the club, breaking the read previously set by Steve McMahon in 1983. [ 18 ] Later that year, he was one of 20 players nominated for the Golden Boy prize, but ultimately struggled during the political campaign after failing to define his function in Silva ‘s team, making merely 16 league appearances for the season. [ 19 ] [ 20 ]
International career [edit ]
Davies has represented England up to under-21 horizontal surface. [ 21 ] On 7 October 2015, he was invited by England director Roy Hodgson to train with the elder team following his progress with the under-17 side. [ 22 ] Just seven days late, he was named captain of the England under-17 team for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. [ 23 ] The FA agreed Everton ‘s request to rest Davies then that he would not feature at the european Under-19 Championship for the England U-19 in summer 2017. [ 24 ] He represented England at the Toulon Tournament the following class and featured throughout as the nation went on to claim its third consecutive entitle in the competition. [ 25 ]
career statistics [edit ]
clubhouse [edit ]
- As of match played 2 October 2021
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Everton | 2015–16[26] | Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2016–17[27] | Premier League | 24 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 2 | |||
| 2017–18[28] | Premier League | 33 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7[a] | 0 | — | 43 | 2 | ||
| 2018–19[29] | Premier League | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20[30] | Premier League | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 32 | 2 | |||
| 2020–21[31] | Premier League | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 30 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22[32] | Premier League | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 135 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158 | 7 | ||
Honours [edit ]
England U21
Individual
- Everton Young Player of the Season: 2016–17[34]
- Everton Goal of the Season: 2016–17[34]
- Everton Performance of the Season: 2016–17[34]
References [edit ]
- Profile at the Everton F.C. website
- Tom Davies at Soccerbase
