Everton manager Sam Allardyce was sacked on Wednesday with the club looking to make a new start ahead of next season, and of course with the huge disapproval in potentially keeping him from the Goodison Park faithful.

It remains to be seen who is going to replace the 63-year-old on Merseyside, but the fans will be hopeful of a new boss that will bring a more positive and attacking style of play, and perhaps one that is willing to give the youth more of a chance.

The former England boss generally preferred to use his experienced players in order to drag the team away from the relegation zone in November and up to an eighth-place finish – which perhaps isn’t really surprising – but there are a number of younger players who were largely cast aside as a result.

Of those that did remain in and around the XI, some were perhaps restricted by their manager’s tactics, and those individuals will be hoping that whoever the new man is, they will have more freedom to express themselves on the pitch.

Here are three Everton youngsters who will thrive now Big Sam has left…

While the 19-year-old played in all but four of Allardyce’s matches in charge in the Premier League from the beginning of December to May, he only scored two goals and provided no assists in those 20 top flight appearances.

Some of those outings may have come from the substitutes’ bench, but there was a feeling that perhaps the 63-year-old’s tactics on the pitch were holding the teenager back a little, and he didn’t quite have the midfield freedom he would have liked to express himself.

Davies is clearly capable of playing in a more advanced role in the middle of the park as well as deeper and defensive roles, and he will hope that the new manager allows him to play more forward passes, rather than sideways ones.

The 19-year-old was another teenager who enjoyed some game time – albeit usually from the substitutes’ bench – in the early weeks of the season, and he impressed with the Watford home match in the Premier League and the trip to Chelsea in the EFL Cup in particular standing out.

However, the DR Congo-born midfielder found first-team opportunities harder to come by when Allardyce took charge at the end of November, with Davies, Idrissa Gueye, Wayne Rooney and Morgan Schneiderlin often preferred in the middle of the park.

Baningime played just 88 minutes of top flight football under the 63-year-old manager, and he will be hoping to get far more regular time on the pitch under a new boss next term to show the ability he clearly has.

The oldest of our three Everton youngsters is Lookman, who played just 30 minutes under Allardyce in the Premier League before joining RB Leipzig on loan during the January transfer window.

The 20-year-old had gone six weeks without playing a single minute of top flight football before he decided to make the move, despite impressing as a substitute against Liverpool at Anfield in the FA Cup.

The left winger scored five goals and provided a further four assists in 11 games for the German club, and he should be given the opportunity to thrive at Goodison Park next season – especially with the player Big Sam clearly preferred, Yannick Bolasie, struggling to find any sort of form following his return from injury and being regularly criticised by his own fans on Twitter.

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