PL Underachievers Everton show us how Owners negligence can prove costly

Despite Everton having a terrible season in 2022, Everton now keeps the run going as one of the six English clubs to never have been relegated from the Premier League alongside Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham, and Chelsea. Everton has managed to continue a top-flight run that has extended from the 1954-55 season. Teams with big fanbases and rich histories (Newcastle, Aston Villa, Leeds, etc.) have gone down before, but none of those failures can quite measure up to the one Everton is facing.

This particular version of Everton should be nowhere near the drop zone and put their loyal fans to this much suffering. The team's recent history has been great. The money is there and has been spent. The squad is decent. It simply makes no sense how Everton in that position found itself where it was - suffering to be safe, the main reason being Moshiri and the rest of the Everton board, who in six years have failed to establish any kind of infrastructure or coherent philosophy with which to guide the club's decision-making, and below all of that is the players themselves, who have repeatedly embarrassed themselves on the field.

"Everton got away with it this time but if there is not significant change at the top of the club everyone will be back here again in this parlous position next season.

The board have not attended a game since January, citing safety concerns, Everton have been referred to an independent commission by the Premier League over alleged breaches of financial fair play and for a while here they were looking at the sporting catastrophe of relegation.

Dyche indicates the work that has to be done next season -"If you ask five different Everton fans what we need, you'd get five different answers, so we have to realign everyone. The work on next season started the day I got here. This is not an easy fix, far from it. The fans want us at the top of end of the market because we are a big club, but we are not performing like a big club. He means to say that Everton needs a serious reboot and fresh ideas in their hierarchy otherwise, this will merely be a temporary reprieve.