Talk about being kicked when you’re down, it seems as though Everton are taking beatings both on and off the pitch right now. Ahead of the last weekend’s Merseyside Derby, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp at least conducted a dignified press conference when he declared that he hoped the Blues would stay up in the Premier League but the likes of Jose Enrique and Charlie Austin – apparently the Berkshire-born Queens Park Rangers striker is a Reds fan – have both shown rather less class and claimed it would be “funny” to see them relegated.
It doesn’t end there though as Everton seem to have as few friends among statisticians as they have in VAR’s headquarters at Stockley Park. Not only was the ‘belter’ about Allan’s passing at Anfield – or lack of it – but others have been all too eager to demonstrate how the Blues find themselves in their perilous current predicament despite ‘outspending’ their high-flying neighbours who having already captured this season’s Carabao Cup are still competing for what would be an unprecedented quadruple of major honours.
Sport Bible tweeted out a screenshot of a graphic showing the respective transfer figures and accomplishments of the Merseyside rivals since the summer of 2016 – when owner Farhad Moshiri first came to Everton. Not only did the number crunchers come up with a bigger outlay from the Blues in terms of fees splashed out but their net spend was approximately twice the figure of those across Stanley Park.
