How is he engineering a move? Even if the story of him leaking this is true, he’s done nothing of the sort.
He’s kept his head down and worked as far as I can tell, seeing the likes of Ashley young making a complete arse of himself at rb, then seeing Godfrey being shoehorned into rb ahead of him, and being exposed on a number of occasions, or Coleman being put in unfit ahead of him.
Has he been that bad when played to warrant that treatment - no worse than any of the others who have been picked ahead of him, imo, and we’ve looked better going forward with him playing.
Maybe the lad, who’s a full Scotland international, just wants a fair crack of the whip at Everton, and more than a handful of minutes, and getting a slap in front of the whole squad and the public was the final straw for the lad.
He doesn’t need that to ask for a move, he could have done so long before this.
Also, He wasn’t the one “playfully” slapping people, how has the person getting clipped become the problem here?
Tbh honest though, maybe he is the problem, as personally, I love it when my gaffer clips me round the ear in the office, in front of my team, highlight of the week that for me.
Same old evertonians treatment of young players, they never get a chance unless they are instantly amazing.