A lot of concerning stuff there but the biggest one for me is that suddenly going full throttle every game is some new idea at Everton. This is like the bare minimum of any professional football club, wtf is going on at Finch Farm.
‘but I couldn’t say that I was surprised with the results with what we were going to have available to us in certain games’ - you don’t need to say this bit in public, just giving the players a ready made excuse
‘if I don't and we stay as a pretty safe, mid-table team, I don’t think it would be too bad a position.” - another one that didn’t need to be made public. These players will just default to the lowest possible expectation and they know that in reality it’s this.