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Phil Kirkbride

Everton winger looks for second loan move after difficult half season

Josh Bowler hopes to secure another loan move away from Everton next season.

The 21-year-old spent last term with Hull City and played 28 times in the Championship.

Bowler made a promising start to life at the KCOM Stadium as Hull eyed promotion but from late-January, the Blues winger picked up an injury which kept him out for 10 games.

Hull, who sold Jarrad Bowen and Kamil Grosicki that month, would begin to suffer an alarming run of form under manager Grant McCann.

Hull were within touching distance of the play-offs on New Year's Day but they dropped like a stone thereafter would finish bottom of the table and be relegated to League One.

Bowler, whose loan was extended to cover the Championship's re-start in June, would only play five more times in the league after January 18 as Hull dropped like a stone.

The winger, whom Everton signed from Queens Park Rangers in the summer of 2017, now hopes to secure a second loan of his Blues career after being frozen out in the second-half of last season.

Bowler, who finished the previous season strongly as Everton's under-23s won the Premier League 2 title - scoring the title clinching goal against Brighton - hopes to land another move to the Championship.

The Chertsey-born attacker is into the final 12 months of the Goodison contract after signing an extension last summer before sealing his Hull switch.

Everton, at the time, said the new deal keeps Bowler at the club until "at least" June 2021. It has yet to be confirmed if the Blues have the option of extending his contract further.

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