Marouane Fellaini and Diniyar Bilyaletdinov are finding their feet at Everton now - David Moyes

IT IS sometimes easy to forget amid all the talk of big transfer fees and even bigger hair, just how young Everton's Belgian enigma Marouane Fellaini is.The former Standard Liege recruit celebrated only his 22nd birthday last month, with the team's fortunes at a perilously low ebb.Fellaini may look older than 22, and is now into his second full season as a premier league player, but he is still young enough to be learning.During that learning curve though, he has fast become a major talking point among supporters.What is his best position? Is his work-rate good enough? Have we yet seen his new potential? Fellaini has been the name on bluenoses' lips perhaps more than any other player since his £15m arrival.He did not enjoy the smoothest of pre-seasons, laid low with a virus and losing enough weight to concern his manager.But the laid-back midfielder has gone about quietly answering the doubters with a string of recent superlative performances in a blue jersey.Likewise an even newer recruit, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.The 24-year-old has spoken candidly of the big differences between the Russian top flight and the Premier League, and how getting up to speed has been a tall order.He has had to contend with the frustration of a three-match ban after a straight red-card against Aston Villa which said more about his attempts to embrace the tackling art of the English game than any malicious streak.Then he fluffed a chance in last weekend's Goodison derby that could have set Everton on the way to a deserved victory.

Source: Liverpool_Echo