Everton FC: Cultivating Top Talent

The below story first appeared in April’s Everton magazine! To buy or download singles issues, click here. To subscribe, click here.

There is a ground-floor corridor that stretches half the length of Everton’s 9,441 square metre Finch Farm training ground. Along its walls on both sides are photographs of every player to have come through the Club’s Academy to make a first-team appearance since the mid-1990s. The 43rd and most recently erected picture is of Jonjoe Kenny and it is housed no more than three steps from the exit. Room is running out.

It’s a clear visual representation of the success stories spawned from within this building and a similar but smaller facility in Netherton before…