Everton going backwards as key rivals keep improving

At the moment it’s a very depressing picture and then you look at other clubs in a similar sort of footballing position to the Blues trying to get into Europe and win a trophy, and they all seem to be making definative progress.

Compare Everton to West Ham United, Leicester City and even last night’s opponents. These are all clubs with it seems a clear sense of how and where they are going.

West Ham for example, have been transformed under David Moyes in much the same way he managed to do with the Toffees when he moved to Goodison Park twenty years ago.

You always know what you’re going to get with a Moyes team. Very good organisation, hard work and a real sense of a team collective. These are all qualities this Everton side desperately need.

Last summer when Everton were yet again looking for a new manager Moyes name cropped up once more as it had done back in December 2019 before Carlo Ancelotti was appointed.

I wasn’t convinced that him returning would be the right choice as I can’t remember many managers going back to a club and being able to replicate their first spell of success, not at Everton anyway.

However, looking at things now maybe it would have been the right decision. Anyway, regardless it’s obviously too late to go back to the Scot, he won’t leave West Ham now competing for a Champions League place for a listless and struggling mid-table Everton.

And anyway, simply replacing manager, which the Blues have done almost every year, while it might have a short-term impact, can’t really be transformative without the right support and resources to build something long-term.

It seems to me that without a clear and realistic sense of strategy that can practically be implimented, then I really don’t know what the future holds for this once great club of ours.