Imagine Everton playing Championship football in their giant new beautiful stadium. Big yikes

It means that they won’t be able to sign Ibrahim Sangare

I feel for the Everton fans, the club has been so poorly mismanaged, just lots of money thrown around with no real solution. I know it's not quite as drastic and extreme, but it feels a bit reminiscent to Portsmouth just over a decade ago. Portsmouth (Pompey) of course had other major problems, but it just goes to show how investment can both take a club to new heights, but also shrink it to new lows if not utilized with any sort or structure or plan.

That means Everton is gonna be playing in championship next season

The possible relegation of Everton reminds me of 2004 Leeds United, Schalke 04 and Hamburg SV - three clubs that got relegated due to several years of mismanagement.

I absolutely despair at how our club has been mismanaged these past few years. Echoes of Sunderland and Portsmouth. For a club that once operated with a strict budget and wage system, and flourished with such, we’ve splashed the cash recklessly on names rather than players to fit a system. Relegation is bad for any club, but it will royally screw us, can see us doing a dramatic double-drop as there are far too many issues to untangle and set straight in one summer.

The fact Van der Beek turned down Newcastle to go to Everton as he "didn't want to be in a relegation battle" is certainly looking like a bad decision, as is moving to Everton when they'd literally just bought a player who occupies the same area (Delle Ali) and its fast becoming the worst short term transfer of the season.

Everton going down could well see them spiral into a freefall, despite a proud history the club is so poorly run at the moment that it is scary. The new ground is incredibly important to them, but what use is a flashy stadium if you can't put a product on the pitch? I genuinely think a Bolton Wanderers scenario is in the cards...

I sink they won’t get relegated, at least this season. But i prefer not to speak.

The amount of mistakes they've been doing over and over again is astonishing, with latest being Delle Alli

Can I just say, being a journalist myself (although in the video game space) the way in which you present your content is nothing short of perfect. I often internally monologue my articles and compare it to the quality that you produce. Accessible, down to earth, interesting and factually correct, Tifo (and by extension The Athletic) is a shining light in the journalism industry.

It's odd because just last season people were talking about Everton being so well run. Calvert-Lewin was getting his caps for England, Richarlson was looking great and basically the team looked ready to make a run at the UCL.

I definitely disagree when people claim that Everton will just pop back up if we get relegated - this season we've lost to all three of the newly promoted sides, lost to QPR and only squeeked past a struggling Hull after extra time. We're simply rubbish when a team sits back even slightly. Plus, if we were to go down, we'd lose the only players with a smidge of a spark.

If Everton were to go down then they would have to sell players on high wages to balance the books at the championship and some players like Calvert Lewin and Richarlison to another Premier League clubs just to get some decent sell value.

Everton going down wouldn't be great for them by any means, but it would give a lot of their youngsters a chance to feature for the 1st team at a regular, competitive level. The likes of Gordon, Branthwaite, Patterson, Onyago, Small, Welch, Dobbin etc, in alongside players in the cusp of becoming top class, like Godfrey, Gray etc. Shipping out the likes of Gomes, Keane & Alan (probably on loan to Galatasaray) and a big fee for Richarlison & DCL, plus keeping players like Doucoure and Mykolenko would help them financially and give them a platform to build from. Some clever signings like John Swift from Reading would be easily attainable and highly beneficial...

I’ve learned from this channel that placement and weekly wages are relatively tied. So to see a club like Everton fall so far is sad and troubling

I never thought I'd see Everton getting relegated. They lost to Burnley and now their remaining matches are mostly against top 6 teams. It's over for them unless a miracle happens.

Everton fans are very unlucky. They were hoping Carlo Ancelotti would take them to Europe this season. But he left them suddenly and now they are in shambles.

I’ve felt for a long while that if Everton did get relegated this year, they’d only ever spend a single year in the championship, which league they’re in after that year is up relies heavily on how Everton manage the crisis. I see a lot of similarities between this side and the Sunderland side that were relegated a few years back.

toon fan here..we feel u bro..we've xperianced it twice under ashley era..the ball is round anything can happen on the last match day..

I still doubt they'll be regulated, they'll scrape by. There's three worse team below them. Lampard was a disastrous hiring in such a situation in my opinion; he has absolutely no experience in a relegation battle.

Honestly as a neutral it’s sad what happened to Everton. They are a far cry from the days with Romelu Lukaku and Tim Howard in the side

As a Leeds fan I see similarities with our implosion in 2004 but at least we had a Champions League run and were finishing in the top 5. Massive overspending without success isn’t sustainable. Even if Everton hold off the bottom three, next season they could be in huge trouble because they’re stuck with high earners that no one else wants and a likely FFP penalty without being able to net spend on the squad. The Kenwright out brigade must regret pressuring him to sell!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I read that Everton could still be in trouble about the whole FFP thing because you also have to take into account 21/22 losses.

As a Liverpool fan I _really_ want to see a competitive Everton team in the top division to make derby matches have some real meaning. My favourite ever season would be 86, and the immense pleasure of seeing a great Everton team throw away a big lead in the championship and a half time lead in the cup final to come runners up in both competitions to Liverpool.

I think it's something that needs to happen imo. It might make the fans really question how the club is run. If Ancelotti, Benitez, and Lampard can't turn things around then there's something fundamentally wrong with the club. It may be 'broken'. Seriously though, getting relegated could be the best thing to happen to Everton in years. It might give them an identity again. Relegation did just this for both Leeds, and Villa.

Relegation would be a good thing for Everton. After languishing in the mid to bottom section of the premier league table for all these years, the championship may allow them a top 6 finish come the end of next season. Let's face it, 6th is definitely better than 12th. An improvement all round. Well done Everton. A wise decision.

Top division without Everton is unthinkable. A sad day should it happen.

How back in 2005 Bolton and Everton were head to head and were top 7 teams. Bolton has been long gone. Now sad to see Everton struggling. 😣

As a Leeds fan it would probably mean we stay up so I fully support Everton’s relegation.

I can’t imagine Everton going down… I like their fans they talk sense most of the time as they’re realistic in where they are. When they bought some decent players a few years I seriously thought they would challenge for Europe consistently for a number of years. Lampard was the wrong choice , he likes playing out from the back amd Everton don’t have the players to do that. The decision making at the club is horrendous. Why sign dele alli, I was glad he left Spurs he is seriously a very lazy player not what you want in a dog fight at the bottom. If Burnley wasn’t playing so bad I would defo pick Everton to go down. I think they will be lucky this year but man seeing Everton like this is shocking

As a Newcastle fan who went down under Ashley, the people who paid the highest price where the staff, the badge kissing players especially the first time where rats leaving a sinking ship.. M Owen stands out. We came back first time on both occasions, the championship is a 46 game Marathon, 2 games a week, its a brutal league ... you need players who are full of character and desire

Ohhhhhh boy, this hits different after today's games. Burnley leapfrogging Everton into 17th after languishing in the relegation zone all season is an indisputable disaster

For some clubs relegation can often be a hard reset and what they need to bounce back that bit stronger. With players on big wages off the books and younger players blooded into the first team. For Everton I think it’ll be disaster, top players will go and they won’t have ability to replace them. Could be a few years before they even challenge to come back up.

So sad! I'm not a Everton fan but I really like the informative yet poignant vibes your video essay evokes!! The athletic reporting perfectly captures this tragedy in real time for all everton fans!!! Such wizardry

Being relegated is what Everton needs. Moshiri is awful, 7th in wages and finishing bottom 3 is a disaster. They'll just lurch around the bottom until it happens

Imagine Liverpool winning the league and Everton going down..... absolute scenes

Back in 2016 I made some rather wild predictions on KZfaq regarding Everton. They were 1: That the team would face financial ruin before 2025. 2: The team would play in League One before 2030 3: That the new stadium would not be completed and would end up turning into a leisure, hotel and retail complex mid project. Now those three ideas were naturally all laughed at. Some might still, but I suspect now there are a few who would think all three of these things are plausible. It was the fourth that was the most radical and hard to imagine. That Everton, at some point in the next twenty years, will revisit the idea of leaving Liverpool altogether in search of a stadium in Knowlsey, or possibly even Rugby loving St Helens. Why? Simply because the number of school age kids in Liverpool that support Everton has been dropping for years and will only get worse. Goodison Park is an aging fanbase. Any Premier league ground hopper will tell you that the home crowd of an Everton game is starkly more heavily populated by 40/50 somethings than pretty much any other club. And when you visit the city you can see a change too. If you visit the airport, the souvenir shop is bedecked in Liverpool souvenirs with a corner at the back for Everton. Liverpool FC symbolism is everywhere in the city, while Everton is hard to find. Even the club's city centre shop is a small affair and often bereft of customers. while it's red counterpart is large, prominent and doing a roaring trade. You can tell in Liverpool city centre when it's a reds home match day. You can't on an Everton home day. Now I know some Everton fans will put that down to Liverpool's fans from outside the city staying in hotels while Evertonians are locals. But this was an argument Evertonians used to always make and to be quite frank it baffled me because they never seemed to pick up that a lack of a wider substantial national and international fan base was, and is the premier mark of a big club and Everton's lack of that was something being shouted about with pride. Everton's fan base is aging and dwindling. Relegation will only speed that process. The club will eventually see moving out of the city as a way to try and secure a firm fan base somewhere else, and Knowsley, so angrily decried by Evertonians fifteen years ago, will probably be the place.

Everton are making mistake after mistake.. Signing injury prone players like Gomes, Mina etc to form their core.. then signing managers who never fit their demands like Koeman. And then finally reached the worst possible point when they appointed Benitez their biggest mistake in the past 10 years. Why would you appoint a manager that nobody likes when the the team itself was struggling? Should've appointed Sean Dyche somehow. He handles austerity measure better than anyone else in the PL. Their fans really don't deserve this. They have a very loyal fan base although i personally don't like how they speak about other clubs. But they are a big club with a loyal fan base that deserves some kind of success. I honestly hope they don't get relegated.

Anyone here after Burnley defeat?

it would mean they wouldn't be in the premier League any more

I really fear for Everton. I think they’re going down this year and I think they’ll be in League 1 before they’re in the Premier League again. You could be looking at something similar to Nottingham Forrest.

As I predicted a few weeks ago, Everton have started winning games that most people would have expected them to lose. Victories at home to Man Utd and Chelsea and away at Leicester. May 1994 revisited. As I said, their relegation was never going to happen, as it simply is not in the Premier League script.

We are at moshiris peril. He’s keeping us afloat but the cause of a lot of the recruitment issues. Listening to a certain super agent and overruling the DOF

I think they’ll be fine, just. But they need a total rebuild and Lampard definitely isn’t the one to take them forward

That was a very relaxing song in the background for such a stressful topic! Adding it to my study playlist!

Good video as always but why do you set it to the backdrop of loftus road , that's qprs ground, not evertons!

I like this channel's presentation of what happens to a mid level club like this and it definitely piqued my interest for more vids like this

Imagine the scenes of Iwobi helping Arsenal to qualify 4 the Champions league on the last match day

I really like the fact that your assertions are supported by the views of a professional in the field. Too often you get Dave, a plumber from Manchester, who thinks he has found to United’s financial woes when in reality it is a highly complex dynamic that requires years of experience to understand.

It might be worth making a follow-up video to this regarding Everton's financial situation. A few days after this video was uploaded Everton published their accounts for the 2020/21 season and it shows that in 2021 they have reported a net-loss of £120.9 million. How much of that is affected by Profitability and Sustainability I don't know, but it is very worrying.

As a Liverpool fan, I don't want them to go down. I mean, they've always been providing us with free points every season and it'd be a big loss to lose those free points in the ever-competitive premier league.

Hopefully this pops the lampard bubble

Lovely picture of Loftus Road you've used there.

It would be pretty shocking if Everton went down but it has happened to others. Portsmouth, Sunderland, Aston Villa all went down. Some came back some didn't. Oldham, one of the founder members of the Premier League just got relegated into non league football.

Hiring Lampard made zero sense. They needed someone to make them defensively solid

I think it would be a similar situation to Leeds United when they went down. The wages for a club like Everton are very high, so imagine that squad getting relegated.

Interesting use of Loftus Road as the background image

Its so sad to see. Here in germany it happened to the biggest traditional clubs werder bremen, hamburg, schalke, hannover They will probably never play international football for 20 years while concept/investment clubs like hoffenheim and leipzig take their spots :/

I'm a Liverpool fan, I Feel sorry for the Everton lads, while their rivals (Liverpool) are shining, Everton are getting bad everyday... Hope they don't get relegated

Lampard made possibly the worst decision of his career by going to Everton… Benitez may be finished but he still was once a top manager… even he probably would have relegated with Everton… there is very little reward in keeping Everton up for Lampard’s reputation but if Everton goes down, his career is going to be very hard to recover

Does anybody know the sourrce of the background music? it's so good!

On the plus side, if they do go down, although sad as yet another of the few remaining "Founder Premier League teams" gets relegated. At least they should be able to stay strong enough to come straight back up and in doing so win a league and a trophy 🏆😉👍.

I'm a Red and even I feel bad for the Evertonians. To see Everton go down, it would be a sad day for everyone.

"they'd play in the championship next year" - M. Owen

I would mean they'd have a great chance of breaking into the top 6 of their division next season

I really doubt we would come back up after 1 season, as a club the rot set in about 30 years ago, mismanagement and poor recruitment over time have caught up with us

This video didn't age well. COYB!!!!

Look at the bright side, at least they’ll end their trophy drought in the football league

I think they’ll hang on although they have a tough run in,the current bottom three are just as bad or worse but Everton have the points on the board,scary what can happen when big prem clubs go down.

Please can you do a video on this subject with updated information!

12 months ago this would have been an April fool’s joke 😹

It's insane, on paper Everton have very good squad - probably something similar to West Ham or Leicester in that regard. But it's just been run so badly - I'm not sure why Rafa was sacked and Lampard brought in? I guarantee Everton would be safe by now (just) if Rafa was still there? I read somewhere when Rafa got sacked they were 5 points off the relegation zone with 2 games in hand, now they're 1 point off the relegation zone and have no games in hand? Lampard has no tactical knowledge compared to Rafa, who is a seasoned professional who has vast experience. Mental!

Rooney knew the writing on the wall.

Bro, I came to this in 2023 thinking it was a recent video. That’s just sad man. Props to them for their 5-1 win over Brighton just now. It’s gonna be close.

Moshiri is one of the worst things to happen to Everton FC

Getting a new stadium made is hard work even in the best of times. Everton are already in financial turmoil and they have barely started work for the stadium.

unless your a regular cl euro team etc it don't make much dif to these mid table teams if they go down if they are run properly, and just cos they go down dont mean they aint run properly, always be 3 that go! wernt long ago arse were down there and eve were above livers, thats the prem for ya. personally i like to see the bigger teams in the prem like leeds newc eve villa.

I just can't see it happening. In any other season I'd say they're in big trouble. Bournemouth and Cardiff went down on 34 points but this season they probably won't even need 30. They're bloody lucky but they'll be fine.

It would mean Lampard finally getting to coach again at the level he belongs to. He hasn't had that opportunity since leaving Derby County.

Football manager players are excited at the prospect of Everton going down

Same thing that happened to the likes of Forest, Bolton, Ipswich, Leeds, Sunderland, etc.

I suggested and made a post on reddit twitter about Niko Kovac at everton, wouldve loved to see that

I'm a Liverpool supporter. Imagine us winning a Quadruple AND seeing Everton go down in the same year. Even the old heads who saw Liverpool win everything again and again in the 80's at our supposed best never knew a year like that. It'd literally be the best footballing year EVER for us. And I do mean ever, even going forward in perpetuity.

Their transfer business has been awful. 35m for iwobi and up to 40m for alli while selling digne is some of the worst prem business I can remember in recent memory.

Can you do a video on the potential new owner’s for chelsea and what each one would mean for the club ?

How many "big clubs" would get a good gate lower down the football pyramid? Video potential? The question could be examined from a current and historical perspective.

Do I dare dream? Lfc quadruple and Everton getting relegated.

Scrap everything rebuild with the financial gains with youth and wait 3 years. Full nuclear.

It would mean getting relegated to league 1. Future Derby’s will be between Everton and Tranmere.

Back in the relegation hunt, just barely above Wolvinghampton, Nottingham Forest, and Southampton

If Everton go down, and even if they don’t, what happens to the filler on high wages? Would any club be willing to take Allan, Iwobi, Mina, Gomes, Delph and Tosun? Or would Everton need to contribute part of their wages just to ship them out? It will take 3-5 years for Everton to dig themselves out of this IF they start making good decisions.

I hope Everton get relegated and Burnley stay up, the way Everton have been run spending millions and making stupid decisions they deserve to go down and Burnley hardly spend anything but have added a couple of good signings in last transfer window they play queit defensive but u no your always in for a tough game there and they put up a good fight they deserve to stay up plus Burnley finished queit high up the league a few season ago with not even spending anything

I love spurs, I like toffee but if a team goes down I can understand that sadness as will come up next season with a new perspective

I always forget to turn my speakers to 1% volume when i click on a TIFO video and it always results in my house shaking like its the rumbling

Everton's problems have not just happened this season. The club has been appallingly managed over several years, both on, and even more so off the pitch. Even their Academy is a shadow of its former self, producing hardly any talent at PL level.

As a fan of a big club sitting in relegation zone I feel Everton fans' pain.

Well first thing is you'll need a new manager as Lamps will either walk away or walk the plank. saddens me watching such teams struggling, I admit they had some bad luck with the city game but hey every team has a game like that at least once a season. How some of the players are able to command 200k a week is baffling, there shouldn't be anyone there on more than half that they simply ain't good enough to be paid that much....

Everton (thankfully as an Evertonian for over 40 years) stayed up after what is , by far, their worst season for 24 years (since we stayed up by drawing with Coventry in 1998). But, and this is the big but, what about next season? This season we had a miriad of misfortunes in long term injurries to key players, lack of transfer funds and of course Rafa Benitez. Although to be fair to RB the first two misfortunes were beyond his control. Lampard is a good manager but will he stay if key players are sold and their transfer goes into the debt that they, and only they, are responsible for and not in the funds he desperately needs to re-build the squad? If he and the top players go then Everton are in big trouble and only time will tell if they are to spend a 70th consectutive year in the top flight next season.

This would be hilarious Everton and Lampard going down 🤣