2019/20 - Minimum Requirement

[Real_madras]

Qualify for Europe and a cup final. Also at least 6 games with no negative comments on here(tough one I know).

The last bit is the toughest. We could win the league and there would still be negativity.

 

[TheSecondComing]

The last bit is the toughest. We could win the league and there would still be negativity.

That wouldn’t happen though would it?

 

[Real_madras]

That wouldn’t happen though would it?

Doubt it, but no one thought Leicester could do it. Can only dream.

 

[TheSecondComing]

Doubt it, but no one thought Leicester could do it. Can only dream.

I meant the complaining.....

 

[verreauxi]

5th is a reach. But, god willing, with a few lucky draws (and other associated cosmic alignments) we could land the FA cup. That would be tits.

 

[everton1953]

Holgate's remarks on the EFC website must have been drawn out of him by a journalist. "We have strength in depth for every position". Either that or his spell with WBA das deranged him.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

I'd say the MINIMUM requirement is 6th and a Cup quarter-final.

We should, though, be targeting 4th and a Cup final. With Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all going through various troubles, the door is open for 4th. As always, the question will be are we good enough to take advantage.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

7th. If we dont get that it's not working out (unless we win or get to a cup final as well).

Regardless, I expect us to be a lot less than 12 points off top 6, as we were last season. The top 6 are tied up in European campaigns and that is a big burden that closes some of the gap on them having more quality players.

If we get a balance to our performance and aren't rocked by a lot of major injuries, I can see us nosing into the top 6 for sure. The evidence from the last quarter of the season suggests to me we can do that.

Dave, that sounded dangerously close to... positivity...??

Are you ok mate? Do you need to talk about anything?

 

[Gaffa]

If you offered me the Caribo Cup and finishing 11th in the league I'd take that right now

24 years!!! Its beyond a joke

 

[evertonarntwe]

would take a terrible mid season finish if we won a cup, we need Europe though

breaking into the top 6 is next step I think, united arsenal and Chelsea will catchable if we strengthen the right areas

 

[Lord Buckethead]

With all this spending?

Europe.

 

[alvinh]

The question is better answered at the end of the window when we can see what the manager has to play with and what the opposition have done in the market. That said, it's reasonable to expect more consistency from players who have had time to understand what Silva requires of them?

 

[joey_macmo]

Qualify for Europe

 

[Nymzee]

Will Everton break into the Premier League top six? What do they need to strengthen first?

What do Everton need to break the top-six stranglehold for the first time since 2016 and get back among Englands top clubs?

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What do Everton need to break the top-six stranglehold for the first time since 2016 and get back among England's top clubs?

The club have already spent £22m on making Andre Gomes' loan spell at Goodison Park a permanent one, with more business expected to be done before the start of the season.


But will it be enough for a team who finished in the top six five seasons out of eight up until 2014, but have not been able to break back in since?


What do Everton need to strengthen?

Everton were in focus during Friday's Good Morning Transfers show on Sky Sports News, with plenty of business still to be completed ahead of the new season at Goodison Park.

"They need to confirm the loan signings they had last season," reporter Dave Reed told the show. "They've already got Andre Gomes in, and Marco Silva's next target will be Kurt Zouma from Chelsea. Can he get it confirmed and will Frank Lampard let him go?

Kurt Zouma had an impressive spell on loan at Everton from Chelsea - but his parent club are now under a transfer embargo
"Elsewhere on the list is turning their attention to a forward, have they ever replaced Romelu Lukaku? And finally, players going out - Yannick Bolasie, James McArthur, Oumar Niasse."

'Everton are team number seven'

Sky Sports News reporter Michael Bridges told the show Marco Silva had said before he joined Everton they were 'team number seven' in the Premier League - and best-placed to end the three-year dominance of the current teams in the top six.

"I asked what that meant and he said if anyone were to break into the top six, he saw Everton as that team," he said. "Interesting, because how many new players do they need to break into the top six? For me they never truly replaced Romelu Lukaku, and that needs to be sorted."

But will they have competition? Everton finished eighth in 2018/19, behind Premier League new boys Wolves, and only two points ahead of Leicester and West Ham.

Outgoings could also play a major part in the Toffees' hopes for the new campaign - both to help finance new additions and ensure their existing squad does not get overly bloated.

"They've got players there who have been given a chance and not really taken them to the next level," reporter Anton Toloui said. "But there's youth prospects who have been highly rated in there too.

"Tom Davies, Kieran Dowell we saw in the England U21s, there's players there - Marco Silva's been there a year, he knows what the players can do, he needs to trim the squad and, I think, know his best line-up."

Will Everton break into the top six?

It'll be a tough job to force one of Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United out of the way to secure a top-six finish - but do you think it's possible?

 

[KaiserEFC]

Something slightly more interesting than: play well until we’re near Christmas before completely forgetting how to play football, ruining the period and this forum by making people on here say something along the lines of “relegation is a real possibility here” despite the fact we’re sitting in twelfth; then picking up a bit once we’re out of the FA cup in the third round and ending up rightfully within our 7th-9th chosen land.

Just get me to Wembley or in Europe or with a few moments that mean the season doesn’t just mash into a blur with all the other ones Everton ffs.