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There are a couple of good articles that have been written about the change in ambition that seems to have begun with having Moshiri leading things rather than Kenwright. This is a good one:
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...-mediocrity-too-long-looks-a-new-age-ambition
In my opinion, Everton as a club have changed considerably since February with Moshiri's arrival. Before then, we were on a downward slide with a poor manager and the hopes of a new stadium in the near future were a deluded dream with having an owner like Kenwright who may love the club, but simply doesn't have the money to compete in this league. On top of that, our best players were destined to leave and we'd become a bottom half outfit, undoing all the hard work David Moyes had done in the 11 years previous.
If you are short sighted like the Leicester fan appears to be, and only consider the most recent season as an indicator for what is to come, then it's probably fair to say that moving from Southampton to Everton is a sideways step at best, but more likely a step down. But things change in football and as I said, the current Everton are not what we were before February.
Since the arrival of Moshiri, the mayor of Liverpool - Joe Anderson, has said that he expects Everton to be in a new stadium within 3 years. That's a huge change in stance from him as pre Moshiri he was actually pretty dismissive of our hopes for a Stadium saying we can't afford one. We've now made a big statement in bringing in Koeman who is a huge name in the footballing world and has done well abroad and now in the English league, whilst we now have a sizeable amount of money to spend. I think Lukaku will go and he will be tough to replace, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Stones stay. A lot of Evertonians, myself included, still have very high hopes for him. Who better than to improve him than Koeman? Martinez certainly wasn't the man to do it.
So we have a core of some very good players, with money to spend, a talented manager and a new stadium on the horizon. It's hard to see why people have written us off as being in such trouble to be honest. Personally I am hoping we can get ourselves back in the top 7 next season and repair the damage Martinez did, and then push on from there.
It's just my opinion, not a dig.
I judge the potential future of a club mainly by it's revenue streams. Ancient history is not a factor because it's not tangible, I don't think you can monetise history of 30+ years a go. I seriously doubt that any prospective player gives two hoots that you used to be a big club before he was born.
For example take Everton with their great history and West Ham with a relatively poor one. Two clubs of similar stature and if you both offered a player the same contract he's no more likely to choose Everton than West Ham because of history.
I was amazed how many people thought Everton are a bigger club than Tottenham on a thread here a few months a go. http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/everton-or-spurs.1191848/
To me that is just ignorance as it's not even debateable, Tottenham generated €92m than Everton, unless Everton can bridge that gap the Tottenham will always be able to pay bigger transfer fees and wages and there is a direct correlation between money and success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte_Football_Money_League
I do think Everton are the biggest club outside the top six especially now Newcastle have been relegated but they are closer to the lesser teams than they are to Tottenham, the gap is huge. The big club, small club debate is a particularly tedious one anyway.
FWIW I do think Everton can have a bright future, a new stadium and owner and some brilliant young players that can be added if you can get your house in order.