The Nigeria playmaker was again omitted from the matchday squad as the Toffees defeated Salford City on Wednesday
These are exciting new times at Everton, but not, it appears, for 2019 signing Alex Iwobi, who is increasingly looking bound for the exit door at Goodison Park.
Carlo Ancelotti invested in James Rodriguez, Allan and Abdoulaye Doucoure during the summer, a raft of new arrivals who underpinned the Toffees’ successful start to the Premier League on Sunday as Tottenham Hotspur were defeated 1-0 on Sunday.
Everton were outstanding in North London, and followed that up by cruising past Salford City in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday evening.
Iwobi, however, despite appearing to be fit and available, didn’t make the matchday squad for a second consecutive game.
It wasn’t that he failed to make the team, but he failed to make the coach’s 18 on the day. Here is a player who increasingly appears to be surplus to requirements under Ancelotti.
It’s a remarkable fall from grace for a player who cost the club £34 million just last summer, but he’s now in danger of finding himself among the Merseysiders’ other outcasts, alongside the likes of Yannick Bolasie, Muhamed Besic and Sandro Ramirez.
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