In normal circumstances, a manager whose side were trailing 1-0 to the bottom club might look along his substitutes, spy the £25 million summer signing who has just scored his first goals of the season and believe he represented the most likely source of a comeback.

However, these are different times at Everton and so in the 66th minute of Saturday’s defeat by Norwich City, Marco Silva brought on Seamus Coleman for Djibril Sidibé, right back for right back, and left Moise Kean kicking his heels on the sidelines.

Only 24 hours earlier, Silva had publicly described the forward, who had scored twice for Italy Under-21 last week — albeit against Armenia — as the “present and the future”.

Here, he was a nowhere man