Three players making their Premier League debuts for Everton, the club’s biggest signing of the summer posing for photographs in the Main Stand and the potential of more faces to come suggests it’s not all doom and gloom for the Blues despite their opening day defeat to Chelsea, which also brought a double centre-back blow.
But there’s also another potential change in the pipeline at Goodison Park. For a long time now it’s been observed by many that more leaders are required in this Everton side and strength of character will also have been observed by manager Frank Lampard and director of football Kevin Thelwell when it comes to identifying targets in what is their first transfer window together.
After the Blues last played a competitive match at Goodison, the dramatic 3-2 comeback win over Crystal Palace that secured their top-flight status after a very real battle against what would have been their first relegation in 71 years, Lampard made an emotional dressing room speech in which he hailed captain Seamus Coleman as being “the best man” he’d ever met, saluting the Irishman’s professionalism and tenacity.
