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Everton target summer sale of Beni Baningime as club open to transfer for youth product
According to the , Everton are expected to target the summer sale of academy product Beni Baning♚ime as he enters the final year ♉of his contract this summer.
The✨ Toffees have placed Baningime on the chopping block after he struggled to establi🧸sh himself during a loan spell with Derby County, where the midfielder failed to breakthrough into Wayne Rooney’s plans despite the Rams’ fight for Championship survival.
Baningime moved to Pride Park in a last-ditch but would only start second-tier appearances, while omitted from nine matchday squads and left on the bench in nine fixtures🦂 by his former Goodison Park team🎃mate.

Rooney stated👍 that Baningime had been training well during his fight for game time, but conceded in quotes by the in March: “The w✅ay we have been going, it has been hard for me to give him minutes.”
Baningime’s inability to overcome Rooney’s reluctance could now cost hඣim a career at Goodison Park, with Everton thought to be eager on selling the DR Congo native in the summer market after placing him on their transfꦰer list.
The £8,000-per-week () Toffees produc🧜t has made in royal blue throughout his career, but has not featured in a senior fixture since the 2017/18 season when given opportunities to play under David Uns𒅌worth and Sam Allardyce.
TBR’s view:
Baningime’s loan spell with Derby was arguably his last chance at securing a career at Everton, with Caro Ancelotti only naming the 22-year-old in since succeeding Marco Silva at the helm and each coming at the en🦋d of the 2019/20 term.
The Congo native really had to grab the opportunity to play regular senior games with both hands, but has left the Toffees with little choice but to seek offers to prevent him leaving for free in 2022 having failed to capitalise𒅌 oꦺn impressing Rooney in training.
Much has been expected of Baningime over the years💦 with U23s boss Unsworth, who gave the midfielder his in 2017, once lauding him as a ‘class act’ () and was quoted by last year as emphatically praising his ‘outstanding’ displays.
Butღ it is one thing to perform at a high level in youth football and another in the senior game, which Baningime has found out the hard way and why Everton are now so open to offers.