Everton boss Sean Dyche has explained 'keeping his distance' from the progress of their young players on-loan.

Dyche says it's good to leave loan players alone at times as part of the learning process.

He said, “We have got people here who monitor it. There is a time and a place when that will come my way but at the minute we will just monitor it from a distance. When I meet them and they come back in then we will share a view, but sometimes it is best left alone.

"Part of the loan experience, it has always been a belief of mine, even when knowing the players a lot better in my time at Burnley, I didn't used to be all over them and neither were my staff.

"Part of their growth was for you to not be doing that. Part of their growth was to be in somebody else's hands. Part of their growth is to be away from the safeness of the environment and going into a new one and taking that on and all the new voices that come with it. So actually, I wouldn't smother players anyway.

"The fact that some of them I don't know at all and have never met them, why would I get in the way of their progress when they are doing well, which it certainly seems like he [Tom Cannon] is doing? I get reports by the way, of course I am aware, but I don't get reports on them as people rather."