 Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Andrews Townsend has suffered an ACL injury and will miss the remainder of the season and probably and possibly the rest of this year depending on how quickly he can rehabilitate from the injury. Townsend suffered the injury in the opening 17 minutes of Everton's 4-0 FA Cup quarterfinal defeat at Crystal Palace on Sunday and I think we all knew when he went down on the pain he was in that it was going to be a bad one. Frank LLampard did say early indications made it look like it was going to be a bad one. That is now being confirmed and Townsend will begin his rehabilitation. It's a crushing blow for him. He's had a good season really for Everton, came on a three, scored seven goals and has worked hard being an important member of the squad and it's just one less player for Frank LLampard to be able to call on. It's been a season full of injuries this one and obviously this is a crushing blow for Townsend and for Everton nearly at this stage of the season so we wish him well on his recovery. Dan Pedy has returned to Everton as scouting and operations manager which is a role he was doing before. Pedy left in December when Marcel Brands left, went on garden and leave so essentially Everton just brought him back off garden and leave. Kevin Thelwell has come in and has had a look at the situation and looked at Pedy's track record and decided to bring him back from that. So there you go. Parts of the recruitment back room staff getting in place. Everton also looking ahead of recruitment right now as well interviewing for that so Thelwell making it some inroads into getting the structure right off the pitch certainly. Stephen Naesmith has backed Everton defender Nathan Patterson to break into the Everton side soon. Naesmith said that he's just got to buy this time Nathan keep working hard but he's confident he'll get in to the side and stay in the side. He talked about how good a player he is because obviously he's away with Scotland at the moment Nathan Patterson said he's got a calmness and composure on the ball which not a lot of players have got and he's got all the attributes to be a success at Everton football club. Like I said Patterson currently away with Scotland and will probably get game time for them which is good for both him and for us of course. Finally some sad news as former Everton defender and 13 coach Terry Daracott has passed away age 71. Daracott who was a player in the 70s or late 60s 70s and was a back of the club in the 1980s as a coach actually became the youngest player to play for Everton age 17 years and 122 days when he made his Everton debut. So a really sad news there Terry Daracott has passed away. That is it for the news daily make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't. Scan the QR code to join us on page and we'll simply click the link in the description. See you later.