Everton’s season has been curtailed by many things outside of the player’s control, but they too are not completely free of blame.
After all, Monday night marked one of the most embarrassing showings in the club’s recent history, falling to a 6-0 defeat at Chelsea despite the hosts hardly working for their landslide result.
Those who featured looked laboured and uninterested throughout, and Sean Dyche was left understandably furious at full-time.
However, it must be noted that there are excruciatingly loud outside noises that are clearly affecting things. One of which has finally now been revealed.
How the players feel about Everton’s ongoing takeover
Writing for The Athletic, journalist Paddy Boyland offered a number of internal insights into what is being felt inside Everton.
After all, for all the speculation regarding how the PSR debacle and ongoing takeover might have affected the players, of which they attest there has been little unrest, it has to have had some impact.
So, this notion outlined by Boyland is useful, and feels far less stage-managed than the answers Dyche or a player might pump out.
He wrote: ‘There is a general acceptance internally that the relentless cycle of bad news, including takeover uncertainty, has had — and continues to have — an adverse effect on players and staff alike as they battle to avoid Everton’s first relegation since the 1950s. Once the initial anger dissipated, it sapped the life out of a club struggling to stay afloat.’
Hopefully, they can brush aside such unrest and just get the job done. After all, should safety be assured following a campaign riddled with deductions, it does feel like we could play witness to a period of relative stability at last.
777 Partners have ruined Everton’s season
Whilst they likely had no intention to do so, 777 Partners, alongside a number of other key factors, have inadvertently ruined Everton’s season.
After all, were it not for this unnecessary takeover unrest, added alongside the unrelenting PSR disaster which has resulted in an accumulated eight-point deduction, the Toffees would be well safe.
And that is also including a Premier League winless run that stretched across five different months, the longest in the club’s history.
It has been a truly terrible year to be an Evertonian, as this club keeps finding new ways of letting their loyal fans down.
However, the takeover has been the most unnecessary of all the dramas, yet so all-consuming.
It’s tiring to see 777 Partners continuously try and fail to assume control, even when a clear and obvious set of conditions are set for them to stroll into power.
They and the other decision-makers around the club need to decide sooner rather than later whether this is a move worth pursuing, because for now, it is only holding the club back.