Fiorentina striker Moise Kean has admitted that his struggles at Everton shaped him into who he is right now following an impressive start to 2024-25.

The 24-year-old Italian scored just four goals in 39 appearances for the Toffees before returning to Juventus in 2021, but he has notched 11 goals in 14 games so far this season.

Kean joined Everton from Juve in the summer of 2019 for PS27 million, but he spent 2020-21 on loan at Paris Saint-Germain before returning to Juve ahead of 2021-22 on a two-year loan deal.

He struggled for game time at the Goodison Park club under Marco Silva, Duncan Ferguson and Carlo Ancelotti, and he insists his experience at Everton has come in handy.

"Out of all the experiences I've had, you won't ever hear me say I had a bad one," Kean told The Athletic.

"I find positives in all of them.

If I hadn't spent that year at Everton, I wouldn't have learned the things I did there.

I was a bit unlucky.

I went there expecting to play a bit more.

I was 19.

I joined from Juve and thought I was going to smash it.

Unfortunately, it didn't go like that.

We went through three coaches that year and mentally.

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it was all new for me.

I was in England, it was a new environment.

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"But England made me learn a lot about myself.

I matured a lot.

When I got there I didn't play much.

I used to think, 'How am I not getting into this team, at Everton?' Mentally, it made me evolve.

I wasn't playing and it was in dark times that I knew I had to grit my teeth and train even more.

Then the chance to go to PSG (on loan) came along, I moved there and got everything out of myself that I could.

I wasn't playing at Everton and I knew I had to give triple.

That's how it went.

"Kean was dropped from the Everton matchday squad against Southampton in November 2019 as a disciplinary measure after being late for a team meeting for the second time, but he has since grown over the years and matured into a reliable professional.

Ferguson irked the youngster as interim manager the following month, removing him in the 89th minute in the 1-1 draw against Manchester United having only brought him on in the 70th minute.

Such experiences at Everton have toughened Kean up, becoming a better player as a result, and he is starting to establish himself as one of the best strikers in the world following a brilliant individual campaign so far this term.

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