“So certainly, I could find it easy to stay here if conditions were right. The key for me is to find a place where I play regularly.

“If I can’t here then it may be somewhere else – but I hope I can stay here.”

Jacobsen is one of several fringe players hoping for at least a place on the bench at next month’s FA Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley.

Phil Jagielka, of course, will not be present, the England international due to undergo surgery in London today to repair the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee he ruptured during the home defeat to Manchester City at the weekend.

Joseph Yobo is now in line to replace the unlucky Jagielka having himself only recently returned from a spell on the sidelines.

Yobo has started the last two games after recovering from a hamstring problem, but admits his most recent injury could easily have been avoided.

“I’ve been in and out of the squad through injury,” he said to evertonTV. “I’m just coming back into it now. I’ve played the game against Man City now and that’s two games in a row so I’m on top of my fitness.

“The injury that I had is sad because I think that if I listened to my body then it could have been avoided.

“I’m not injury prone as a player and my body gave me a signal.

“If I had listened to it I could have prevented it.”