Had a quick mooch through this thread.
My, that WolfMan guy decided to make some pretty valid points, in a manner and tone that was never going to work.
I’ll try a slightly different approach, while looking to debate some of things that have narked me in here.
It does look like you’ve got a fairly stable side together now, with a relatively easy route to improvement.
As in, a proper striker. Calvert-Lewin ain’t it.
Definitely agree that league positions would have ended up very different had we magically swapped number 9s.
Get that one signing right, as we did with Jimenez, fair to expect a better Everton next season.
However. Recruitment, signings working, providing value for budget, and Silva knitting it together in a reasonable time frame is where I have my doubts.
This is where WolfMan has a point, and generally got jeered with comments along the lines of ‘you’re a nothing club, while we’re the prem ever present and will throw another £300m at it’.
Ok. May well throw another £300m at it. How much improvement are you honestly expecting for that?
Took a long time for Silva to get something decent going out of current expensively assembled squad.
We spent 100m, took til Christmas to adapt to the league and settle on a new shape, then had top 6 form from there on out.
Put another way, which recruitment team and manager would you rather trust with your personal cash or football index account?
Whatever happens, I expect an interesting season coming up.
A lot of it will depend on the summer, but it could be an intriguing battle in the emerging premier league ‘middle class’ of Everton, Wolves, Leicester, Wet Spam and possibly Watford, hoping to capitalise on failing rebuilds at United and Arsenal.
