Everton's majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri believes the club's season has not been good enough, but remains confident the 'big bet' they took on manager Marco Silva will pay off.
The Toffees sit 11th in the table, having won just one of their last eight Premier League matches. They have 27 points, the same tally they had at the same stage a year ago, and are 17 points off fourth.
It is not where Moshiri would have expected them to be, having upped his investment in the club to £250million and dispensed with Sam Allardyce and director of football Steve Walsh at the end of last season at considerable expense to bring in replacements Silva and Marcel Brands.