Honestly? I personally think next year he really needs to be accountable for. This season the players weren't even fit enough to last more than 60mins until Janurary. If you can't keep up with your opponents on a basic fitness level then we have no chance. Next season he has to address where we lack in strength i.e a playmaker and another striker at the very least. I expect us to at least compete to the very end for a CL place and to compete for a cup. If we can't do that next season then it's nowhere good enough. Winning the League is hard if it wasn't then them lot across the road would have won it by now.
Do you really think the club have their eyes set on Champions League, or even winning the league
dorf ?
Have you not noticed that we are still searching for bargains?
We can all hype our players up as much as we want, but bottom line is that 2 transfer windows passed, and we signed a loan Striker from West Ham that couldn't get a game.
We signed Championship side Fulham's second keeper. We signed an ageing defender from Swansea. We signed a winger from Crystal Palace. A defensive mid from relegated Aston Villa. A Striker from Charlton Athletic. We then signed another Defensive mid from his time at Southampton (you can pretend he was a regular Man Utd player if it makes you feel better).
Now I'm not saying this to be negative, but simply putting a point across, that Everton are very much still a club that only attract players from mid table clubs, unless they are struggling at their current club like Schneiderlin was.
We can say that the players we signed are very good, and they may be, but being better than the teams below us, and being better than the teams above us, requires different things.
Compare how the weakest team above us, Man United, did their business. Did they look for bargains?
Look deeper, and you will see that Lukaku was a player struggling at Chelsea, Barry was struggling at City, Mori was an unknown, Cleverley was another struggler at Villa, Robles from Wigan, Deulofeu was drifting on loan, Lennon couldn't get a game at Spurs, McCarthy another from Wigan, and so on, and so on.
We are not going to be able to attract players who play regularly in Champions League clubs, and have the experience we need to push on.
Our team is built from players we were able to pick up cheaply in the most part, but certainly players who have zero experience, and we are STILL buying potential, and bolstering the squad with our youth, which although is a positive thing, we are supposed to be billionaires now, but little has changed in terms of our transfer policy. All that has changed is the price of players has gone through the roof.
So, let's keep telling ourselves that things take time, and if we say it loud enough, and often enough, we might start to believe it ourselves.
City bankrolled a title winning team, and it cost an absolute fortune, and Chelsea too. Some Everton fans think we have the same future ahead of us, and they need to take their heads out of their arses and realise that is not the likely outcome at this club.
We are looking to attack it from a different angle, with scouting (don't all clubs?) as opposed to spending.
Compare our squads to that of the clubs above us, and you'll see the difference.