Anjishnu Roy 06/04/2025 3comments  |  Jump to last

David Moyes has made an incredible turnaround to Everton’s season. With the Blues just one point clear of the drop zone when Moyes took over, Everton are now 15 points above the relegation zone following the 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Goodison Park on Saturday.

In his second stint at the club, Moyes helped Everton to a nine-game unbeaten run in the league which only recently came to an end in the 1-0 loss to champions-elect Liverpool at Anfield.

Although safety has not been mathematically ensured, it’s practically taken for granted that Everton will stay in the Premier League next season. And they will do so at the new stadium in Bramley-Moore Dock after bidding goodbye to Goodison Park at the end of the 2024/25 season.

Moyes, who up until now had refused to visit the new stadium until he believed his side was safe from relegation, is finally ready to make the trip to the 52,888-seater waterfront stadium. That admission came after holding second-placed Arsenal to a draw.

“It is nearly done. Obviously, mathematically we're not safe yet, but I'm hoping to take a visit to the stadium this week, which would indicate that I think that we’re pretty close, so I want us to keep getting ready now for Premier League football. I know I've got a bit to do and I hope I'm not speaking too soon,” Moyes told the media.

The new Everton stadium has hosted two matches as part of test events so far. 10,000 lucky fans visited the stadium for the first to catch Everton U18s in action against Wigan Athletic U18s in February.

More recently, the club’s U21 side hosted Bolton Wanderers B as 25,000 fans were allowed inside. An evacuation procedure was also tested after half-time during the second test event. A third and fourth test event is also planned following the club’s move this summer, pending licenses and safety approvals.

 

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Paul Kossoff
1 Posted 07/04/2025 at 00:33:28
Anj, please never reefer to the other lot as anything but negative.
They are a hated side and rightly so especially for us blues.
So in future please refer to the other lot as, well, the other lot.😁
Don Alexander
2 Posted 07/04/2025 at 02:05:22
A dose of reality from me;

BMD will likely seem to our players next season to be permanently playing away from home for the first few months at least, picking starting elevens from, as yet, an all but wholly unknown squad.

Hopefully Mr Friedkin, the par excellence Toyota car salesman he's shown himself to be (until Trump kicked him and many such others in the knackers tariff-wise) has recognised this and still intends/is able to invest sufficiently to prevent next season and the one after that, becoming the usual utterly depressing slog to avoid relegation from the outset.

Due to our 30 year history of hideous management and the damage done to our reputation world-wide as a direct consequence I, right now, will delighted if next season we're top half - again, just a few points off relegation.

At 70 in my life, experience paralyses baseless optimism.

Unless Friedkin can do what no other club owner of his reportedly modest (compared to the oil-rich nation state wealth of other EPL club owners) fortune can do to "lawfully"-in-the-ever-fandangoed-cess-pit of EPL fatuous governance, remains to be seen.

If we qualify for any European tournament in the next five years I honestly believe that as a minimum we should name a stand after the hitherto unknown Toyota car salesman now claiming ownership.

Sir, you have a mountain to climb, to put it mildly.

Please deign to address our/and-now-your fans with your definitive ambitions for the immediate future of Everton FC.

Jerome Shields
3 Posted 07/04/2025 at 14:57:13
My concern is that I can see Moyes gradually getting his feet under the table.His initial period of a offensive attacking team has faded The Man United game showing Moyes's glass ceiling still exits and he has resorted back to Dycheball.As soon as Everton got clear of relegation, relaxation set in and ambition went.

It will be very much up to the new Chief Executive to set the standard and demand performance and progress. Thankful Moyes has only been able to progress internal promotions and hasn't got West Ham backup he wanted, which really would have set the Moyes trend to comfortable status.

He still thinks in terms of plucky little Everton and talks in terms of gulfs,rather than a progressive plan for improvement and competitive achievement.

Davy boy we demand achievement and progress once you set foot on BMD. Make no mistake.

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