Everton are the club most likely in danger of relegation this season among the Premier League’s ‘established’ teams - a group of 13 clubs who have each spent at least three consecutive seasons in the top flight ahead of the 2023-24 campaign.
Detailed analysis of troubled Premier League clubs over the past 20 years points to Everton being in a classic ‘circling the drain’ cycle where relegation will become increasingly likely without dramatic off-field investment and innovation.
This type of boost does not appear to be on the horizon at Goodison Park; in fact the opposite is true.