Thierno Barry is settling in at Everton.

There is evidence of this everywhere you look - in his improving goalscoring record, on the training ground - where he is becoming more vocal, and in his developing English skills. These are all positive signs for David Moyes, particularly now his squad will attack the rest of the season without any new support up top for Barry - something the club tentatively explored in the transfer window.

For all that Moyes is pleased with Barry’s progress, the 23-year-old insists there is one thing he will not change and it is something his manager may not wish to hear: Should he find himself facing up to a goalkeeper from 12 yards, as he did against Sunderland in the FA Cup defeat last month, he does not plan to change an approach that left Moyes irate when it did not come off the first time round.