Everton offer for Matthew Kennedy angers Kenny Shiels

Kilmarnock manager Kenny Shiels has described Everton’s bid for Matthew Kennedy as 
“derisory” and hopes to have the 17-year-old forward in his side for tomorrow’s SPL clash with Ross County.

The fee offered by the Merseysiders for the 17-year-old Scotland youth international is believed to be lower than the £250,000 reported which has angered the Northern Irishman.

Shiels confirmed that defender Jeroen Tesselaar, who went off with a hamstring injury in Tuesday’s 2-1 League Cup defeat by Stenhousemuir at Rugby Park, would be “out for six weeks”. But, on the possibility of losing one of his bright young prospects for good, he said: “There are all sorts of rumours going around but at this moment he is playing for me on Saturday. They [Everton] have made a derisory offer which was disrespectful to the club and unsettled the player which I wasn’t happy about.

“But that can change as you know and, if we were speaking tomorrow, it might be different but hopefully it won’t be.”