'I still think about it' - David Henen makes 'desperate' and 'difficult' Everton admission

David Henen has told how he twice came close to making his Everton first-team debut and why it was 'impossible' to pick a club after leaving Goodison Park.

Henen joined Everton in the summer of 2014 on loan from Olympiakos before signing a three-year-deal in the summer of 2015 for an initial fee of around £200,000.

The forward spent seven months on loan at Fleetwood Town in his first season with the club before playing a part in the triumphant under-23s squad that lifted the Premier League 2 title at the end of the 2016/17 season.

Roberto Martinez earmarked Henen as a future first-team player and it was under the Spaniard that he first came close to making his senior debut.

“Roberto told myself and Brendan [Galloway] we could have made our debuts together, but then I got injured in training,” Henen told Everton’s matchday programme.

“That was my first difficult time. After that, the opportunity did not come again and Martinez lost his job.”

Then following the sacking of Ronald Koeman, David Unsworth, who Henen had a close bond with, took charge of the first-team on a temporary basis.

And one of the first moves Unsworth made was to promote Henen, with the winger once again being told to prepare for his senior debut.

“When Unsworth was named caretaker manager, he took me up to [the first-team] with him straight away,” the Belgium recalled.

"Two days before the Europa League game in Lyon, he took me aside and told me to be ready to play because I would play.

“I was very excited. The next day, I picked up an injury that ruled me out, which was so frustrating. I still think about it to this day. I think about it because I feel like it could and would have changed a lot of things.

“To play in those Europa League