Everton have signed two of their homegrown players, Tony Hibbert and Leon Osman, to new long-term contracts which will keep them at Goodison Park until 2012.

The pair, both 26, have spent their entire careers at Goodison, having come through the club’s academy and forming part of the FA Youth Cup-winning side of 1998.

They are also the two longest-serving members of manager David Moyes’s senior squad, have played key roles in Everton’s impressive form this season and, between them, have made a total of 329 first-team appearances.

Hibbert will figure in Wednesday’s Carling Cup semi-final second leg at home to Chelsea, while Osman is close to a return after recovering from a broken foot.

“I am made up that I am here for another five years and I am very happy to be here and carry on playing my football here," Hibbert, the Liverpool-born player, said.

“It is good to sign at the same time as Leon. We have grown up together and been playing for Everton for many years. It is good to see that we are still wanted at the club.”

Negotiations with the duo have been ongoing since November but Osman insisted there was never any doubt the new deals would be agreed.

The midfielder said: “We started talking a couple of months back, but I do not think there was ever any doubt that I was going to commit my long-term future to the club.

“I have been here since I left school, and that is a long time but it is where I want to play my football.”