{"id":431430,"date":"2026-05-04T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:06:08","slug":"tyler-dibling-the-curious-case-of-evertons-40m-youngster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431430\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Dibling: The curious case of Everton’s \u00a340m youngster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Everton<\/a> midfielder Leon Osman, who played under Moyes during his first spell in charge at the club, understands the youngster’s situation and has sympathy.<\/p>\n

Osman told BBC Sport: “This year has been an education. I would expect him to come back at the start of next pre-season looking like he’s ready to challenge for a first-team place.<\/p>\n

“Now he’s had a whole year to understand what’s expected of him, but also let’s not forget that within all this, Tyler is a young lad who is known to be quite a homely person.<\/p>\n

“He has moved the length of the country to live in a completely different environment, where he doesn’t know anybody, so that in itself is a big step for any young man.<\/p>\n

“And he’s doing that with the weight of expectation that comes with huge price tag, with people expecting him in to deliver every single time in a completely different culture of football club. There has to be a level of understanding.<\/p>\n

“Everton<\/a> is a different environment to a lot of other football clubs, so it’s not always easy to hit the ground running, but his talent shows that if he knuckles down and works as hard as he can, it will work for him.”<\/p>\n

Osman believes Dibling’s time in the shadows at Everton<\/a> is an example of how Moyes nurtures young players, preferring to shape them to what he requires rather than adopting an instant “sink or swim” approach.<\/p>\n

He said: “There is no doubt as we saw from his time at Southampton, that Dibling is a huge talent, very naturally gifted, dribbles brilliantly with the football. He was a free spirit.<\/p>\n

“When you move to the next level, you have to learn more things. And that doubles when you play for a David Moyes team, with his expectations of what you have to do off the ball.<\/p>\n

“This was probably one of the reasons why I took a bit of time to prove to David Moyes I could do that, but also one of the reasons I stayed in the team because in a David Moyes side what you do off the ball can be often be more important than what you do on the ball.<\/p>\n

“David is well aware that there is no ‘one size fits all’ way of going about it. He knows talent. He understands characters. I think his character knowledge has certainly risen since his time away from Everton<\/a> because he’s kept up to date with the modern player.<\/p>\n

“He’s kept himself young by keeping that next generation around him, so he does understand this generation. I think he makes sure that everybody gets what they need.<\/p>\n

“You have to prove that you can work for the team and you can work off the ball. Yes, you might make mistakes going forward, he will understand that goes with the territory, but you have to make sure you do the job defensively going back because there has to be a balance within the team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman, who played under Moyes during his first spell in charge at the club,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-431430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}