They have been in the Premier League since its transformation in 1992, and have had good spells in being a dominate top half team, but can Everton get back to the ‘good old days’ and become a regular competitor for European football.
Manager: Marco Silva
Last Season: 8th
Stadium: Goodison Park
Fixtures:
Home: 9th May
Away: 21st September
Transfers;
In: Andres Gomes, Sebastian Kristensen, Jonas Lossl, Fabian Delph, Jean-Phillipe Gbamin.
Out: Harry, Charsley, Phil Jagielka, Shayne Lavery, Boris Mathis, Ashley Williams, Nikola Vlasic, Brendan Gallowway, Antonee Robinson, Bassala Sambou, Ademola Lookman, Idrissa Gueye, Joe Williams, Daniel Bramall, Michael Collins, Mateuz Hewelt, Joe Hilton, Jack Keirsey, Barney McKeown, Chris Renshaw, Elliot Richards, Kameron Stanley, Ethan Warnock, Pawel Zuk, Jonjoe Kenny (loan), Sandro Ramirez (loan), Kieran Dowell (loan), Luke Garbutt (loan), Shani Tarashaj (loan), Josh Bowler (loan), Nathan Broadhead (loan), Korede Adeoyin (loan), Joao Virginia (loan).
Everton’s 2018/19 Premier League campaign was pretty mixed. Despite a number of new signings for manager Marco Silva settling in and arriving later in the window on loan spells, we did more hit the ground running when it came to results and lasted until mid-September before suffering our first defeat.
December was a very tough spell for us though and with frustrations rising there was plenty of talk about whether or not Silva had had his chance and blown it, as we just couldn’t find any consistency and lurched between reasonable wins and depressing defeats.
Something changed in March and although we still had some harsh losses, we finished pretty strongly really to salvage what had been a mixed year.
An eighth-place finish was fair given the season we had, we’d have hoped for higher at the beginning of the year given our spending and the names brought in, but plenty expected worse given how the wheels fell off.
This summer has been quieter than 12 months ago as most of our work seems to have gone into securing players like Andre Gomes and then filling gaps with Jonas Lossl and Fabian Delph coming in. We do have a more bloated squad and we’ve long known that needed addressing and given there’s been no marquee signing akin to Richarlison yet, with a busy deadline day last summer, plenty think we’re getting people out first before making stronger moves to strengthen.
We’ll have to see what the rest of the window brings as the aim will be to be more far more consistent and mount a stronger challenge for the Europa League.
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