For Everton, recovering from the financial issues that have dogged them for the past year or so has meant reviewing where they could make improvements.
From the austere approach to summer recruitment that was seen ahead of the 2021/22 campaign to the moves made to cut their payroll obligations with the exits of major earners like James Rodriguez, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Cenk Tosun and Fabian Delph, Everton have been working towards getting themselves on a more sure footing at the same time as attempting to drive forward operations on the pitch.
Everton came a little too close for comfort to relegation last season, something that would have been severely damaging had the worst happened given the enormous gulf in the money that flows in the top tier of English football and in the Championship.
