Big difference between qualifying for Europe and to playing the most direct, defensive and boring football of any team in the top 5 leagues in Europe.
Football develops in trends. In recent years football have become much more offensive minded, a lot more goals are scored and the entire world of football moves away from the current Everton team.
If you play offensive football and develop player types that are attractive for other clubs, you will massively increase the value of your squad and it will be a lot easier to attract talent to your club. You will get more tv matches and more tv money. Higher exposure will make you more attractive for sponsors. Who knows, you might even get pre-season friendlies against other opposition than Salford and Coventry. Pre-season prints money for other clubs.
You can be mid-table with 50 points and 40 goals scored and you can have same points tally with 65 goals scored. Financially the latter will make a lot more money and be able to attract much better players.
Last take on that, since we are in the wrong thread for this.
Just accept the current state the club you support is in. We been in 3 relegation fights the last 3 years. Moshiri, our squad, our finances, points deduction. Which of those points make you believe that Everton is underachieving at the moment?
Everyone who watches the games know that our football isn’t the most attractive, and? With this football we kept our historic club in the premier league for a further year and we are going to this again, while clubs like Burnley,Luton last year and probably I Leicester this year try to impress their fans and go down with 30 points.
Every evertonian hope that things change one day and things actually look good at the moment with our new owner, new transfer policy (it seems), new stadium and so on. But until then we have to do what we have to do.
It’s the reality not FM24.