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EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB Introduction - Why play as Everton?:- Why play as the blue side of Liverpool? Because you want to usurp the Reds as the top Liverpudlian team in the Premier League. In real life the Toffees are languishing down near the bottom of the table with current manager Marco Silva under a lot of pressure with many people expecting him to be on his way out the door. Much life in real life, Everton often underperform in FM20. With a decent squad to build on, albeit with some players that need to be moved on, Everton are a team that have always just been "there" and not quite good enough to crack the top 6 of the Premier League. History:- Everton's history is rich with the club being founded in 1878. They currently hold the record for competing in the top division of English football an incredible 116 season, only missing out 4 times since The Football League was created in 1888. The team has a long and storied rivalry with Liverpool with the clashes against the Reds known as the Merseyside Derby. The club hasn't won any silverware since 1995 when they won the FA Cup and the FA Charity Shield. Everton have won the league a total of 10 times (9 First Division titles and 1 Second Division title) with their most recent being in the 1986/1987 season. Everton are a club with a rich history with their most notable managers being Howard Kendall, who led them to their Division 1 wins in the 80's, and in more recent times David Moyes who led the side from 2002 until 2013 when he departed for a stint at Manchester United that would only last 10 months before his sacking after he replaced football royalty Sir Alex Ferguson. Since Moyes left the club the team has dropped down the Premier League table to become a mid-table club finishing as low as 11th. Prior to this the club was often up amongst the big dogs of the Premier League including a 4th place finish in 2004/2005. Flash-forward into the present and the club are currently sitting near the bottom of the Premier League. Having lost the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Ademola Lookman, and Idrissa Gueye in the recent transfer history, the club is struggling despite several big name signings. In fact, Everton spent a whopping £111M in the off-season to bring in the likes of Alex Iwobi, Fabian Delph, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Moise Kean and André Gomes with French right-back Djibril Sidibé also joining on loan. It is this underperformance after large investment that sees Marco Silva currently hanging on to his job by a thread. - Everton Football Club 2019/2020 Season:- Home Ground: Goodison Park (Capacity: 39,572) Training Facilities: Finch Farm, Liverpool -Suberb training facilities -Superb data analysis facilities -Superb youth facilities -Good academy coaching -Excellent youth recruitment Media Prediction: 7th Transfer Budget: £10M Wage Budget: £2,344,184 p/w (£101K p/w available) Season Thoughts:- The club has several requirements to fulfil. Firstly it desires to build a new stadium in the next 5 years, which they will handle themselves. Next they require you to work within the wage budget, which is fair enough as it is fairly hefty for a team that has no European football. You are required to finish in the top half of the Premier League this season and at the end of the 2020/2021 season you are required to be recognised as the 'best of the rest'. Beyond that they expect you to continue being recognised as the 'best of the rest'. The board desires that you play entertaining football and for you to reach the Fifth Round of the FA Cup, both things seem doable at first glance. They would like it if you reached the Fourth Round of the Carabao Cup, however this is not as important. As you can see their long term ambitions are not really too farfetched. They basically want the team to rise back to where they were under David Moyes. But this is FM, we can do better than that. -
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Everton FC - Turning Merseyside Blue Good morning everyone. I have decided during lockdown and being off work for an indefinite period of time it was the correct moment to start my long term Everton FC save. My aims for this save are simple, manage the club I love for as long as I can, either by being sacked or by as the title states turning Merseyside blue - I know this is a big ask. Aims: Season 1-3 The board want a top half finish for the foreseeable future and to be honest that should be enough to keep me in a job as I aim to make the top 7 in each of the first three seasons and qualify for Europe. Sign mostly young players from around the world to slot straight into the starting squad or build for the future. I plan on utilising some of the Everton youth players in the u23 and u19 on a rotational/back up basis. Sell youth products on to other clubs with sell on clauses attached to the deals or buy back clauses. Season 4 and beyond Continue signing and selling mainly youth products. Be a consistent top 4 side and be competing for a range of trophies. Season 1 Transfers in: Justin Kluivert - £25 million Kristoffer Ajer - £20 million Ryan Christie - £18 million Daniele Rugani - £15.5 million in January Transfers out: Maarten Stekelenburg - £1 million to Al Ain Oumar Niasse - £3.9 million to CF Pachuca Morgan Schneiderlin - £11 million to Leicester League Table A great end to the season saw me finish in 4th place and qualify for next seasons Champions League, the cups were less exciting as I lost out in the League Cup quarterfinal to Liverpool and the FA Cup 4th Round to Chelsea. Player Stats: Shout outs to Calvert-Lewin for banging in the goals with 25 in all comps and Digne for 12 assists from left back. This lead to DCL winning Young Player of the Season and Digne being names in the Team of the Season. And finally for this season the best 11 (from next season I will add the team of the season and also the overall Everton 11:
