Here are your Everton evening headlines for Monday, February 27.
Farhad Moshiri kept big promise but tough questions over Everton decline and new stadium remain
Talk about the seven-year itch. Today is the anniversary of Everton announcing in 2016 that Farhad Moshiri was to be a new major shareholder at the club, bringing the promise of new investment.
The billionaire was true to his word on that score but despite record-breaking levels of spending on players, the team have somehow gone backwards in a big way.
They currently find themselves back in the drop zone and haunted by the spectre of what would be the club’s first relegation in 72 years, less than 12 months on from coming disgustingly close to going down with what was the joint lowest equivalent points total in their history in the 2021/22 season.
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That near miss prompted the ECHO to proclaim in a front page splash: “We love you Everton – just don’t put us through this again,” adding that while the Blues had secured Premier League survival on one of the most memorable nights in Goodison’s long history (with a dramatic 3-2 comeback win over Crystal Palace), it shouldn’t have ever come to this.
Given that few clubs in football history had spent so much to become so bad, Moshiri issued the first of a clutch of subsequent open letters to the fanbase the following month.
Chris Beesley has the full story.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin 'recovery' latest as Sean Dyche gives triple Everton injury update
Dominic Calvert-Lewin remains sidelined for Everton, as the Blues prepare to take on league leaders Arsenal in North London on Wednesday evening.
And manager Sean Dyche has continued to refuse to put a timescale on his return, but called on his team to produce goals from elsewhere.
Calvert-Lewin's only appearance under Dyche came on February 4 during the new Everton manager's first game in charge - a 1-0 victory against the same opposition at Goodison Park, but after being forced off just past the hour mark he has not pulled on a blue shirt since.
Everton are the Premier League's lowest scorers this season with only 17 goals in 24 matches - a statistic that has contributed to their current standing in the relegation zone. Calvert-Lewin has only been fit enough to appear in 11 of those matches, but Dyche insists that scoring goals is a wider issue that cannot just be pointed at the absence of the club's main striker.
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