SM
Sports Mole words bigger AMP 2
Liverpool vs. Lille: 28 mins
Upcoming predictions and previews
Collect News Data
EL
Everton logo
Premier League | Gameweek 21
Jan 15, 2025 at 7.30pm UK
Goodison Park
AV
Aston Villa logo

Everton
0 - 1
Aston Villa


Gueye (52'), Pickford (54')
FT(HT: 0-0)
Watkins (51')
Onana (8')

Everton exclusive: Relegation "really frightening" for Toffees in 'one of their most important seasons ever'

:Headline: Everton exclusive: Relegation 'really frightening' for Toffees in 'one of their most important seasons ever':
Former Everton winger Pat Nevin tells Sports Mole why the Toffees can ill-afford to suffer relegation from the Premier League in 'one of their most important seasons ever'.
Sports Mole
Exclusive: Nevin explains why Everton must avoid 'really frightening' relegation

Former Everton winger Pat Nevin believes that the Toffees can ill-afford to suffer relegation from the Premier League in 'one of their most important seasons ever'.

Much to their dismay, Everton supporters have become used to their team battling at the wrong end of the table in recent years amidst ownership and financial turbulences.

The Toffees avoided the drop in back-to-back seasons under the tutelage of former manager Sean Dyche and overcame two separate points deductions last term - after breaking the Premier League's Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) - before finishing 14 points above the relegation zone.

This season, Everton are hovering just one point above the bottom three in 16th place, and the club's new owners - the Friedkin Group - have decided to replace Dyche with a familiar face on the blue side of Merseyside in David Moyes, following a run of just one win in 11 matches.

Everton are one of six English clubs who have never been relegated from the Premier League since its inception in 1992, while they were last competing outside of the top flight back in 1953-54.

Exclusive: Nevin explains why Everton must avoid 'really frightening' relegation

Prospect of relegation is "really frightening" for Everton

With demotion to the second tier a distinct possibility for the Toffees this season, Nevin has stressed the importance of his former side preserving their top-flight status if their financial situation is not to improve any time soon.

Speaking to Sports Mole, Nevin said: "It's as important as last season and the season before (to survive), but these two or three seasons have been as important as any, almost ever, because of the debt, because of the ownership problems, because of the new stadium, because of everything.

"Because if you find yourself going down and you can't get back up - and we all know how difficult the finances and PSR is - if you can't get back up and you're a club the size of Everton with that new stadium, that's frightening. That's really frightening for everybody with the finances that are involved with that.

"So yes, I agree completely, you need to be able to save it this season. If you can save it this season, and the new ownership's ideas are good ones - we don't know if they are or not, they might be, they might not be, but we'll find out - but if they are good enough and they'll be able to make the finances work, and the new manager's given a lot of time, they could come back up [to be a force in English football again].

Everton's financial situation a priority for new owners

"The difficulty is, in times gone past, I would have said: 'David Moyes, spot on, right man, new owners, bags of money, party time'. Right? That's what I'd have thought, but it's not the way football works now.

"It's just a change now, and the change is you've got PSR, you've got rules about finances, you could want to invest £500m, and you can't. It's because of the rules, so the problem you have is not, is David Moyes a good enough manager? He is. Are Everton a big enough club? They are. Is it a good enough stadium? It is.

"All of them are fine. It's just finance. Nothing more than that, and if they can sort that out, they'll be OK."

Nevin, who made 124 appearances for Everton in his playing days between 1988 and 1992, has also shared his thoughts on Moyes's return to Goodison Park, with the Scotsman to take charge of his first game at home to Aston Villa on Wednesday night.

Moyes has returned to Everton almost 12 years on from his first stint at the club where he won 42% of his 518 games in charge, while he also guided the Toffees to the qualifying rounds of the Champions League in 2005 and the FA Cup final in 2009.

Pat Nevin was talking to Sports Mole on behalf of talkSPORT BET. body check tags ::

amp_article__562922 : Collect and Make Data not in DataBase  : 
last updated article - 2025-01-15 13:14:36:
html db last update - 2025-01-15 13:14:36 :

ex - 7200 : read : write cache and make html
Read more!

Click here for more stories about Pat Nevin

Click here for more stories about Everton

Share this article now:


Sports Mole provides in-depth previews and predictions for every match from the biggest leagues and competitions in world football.
AL
Sign up for our FREE daily preview newsletter direct to your inbox!
Recommended Next on SM
Exclusive: Nevin explains why Moyes is '100% the best manager around' for Everton
'A riddle to solve': How can Arsenal cope without the stricken Saliba?
Alonso responds to Real Madrid rumours amid speculation over Ancelotti's future
Everton plotting move for Roma's Tammy Abraham?
Premier League Table
TeamPWDLFAGDPTS
1Liverpool21155150203050
2Arsenal22128243212244
3Nottingham ForestNott'm Forest22135433221144
4Chelsea22117444271740
5Manchester CityMan City22115644291538
6Newcastle UnitedNewcastle22115638261238
7Bournemouth22107536261037
8Aston Villa2210663334-136
9Brighton & Hove AlbionBrighton2281043530534
10Fulham228953430433
11Brentford2284104039128
12Crystal Palace226972528-327
13Manchester UnitedMan Utd2275102732-526
14West Ham UnitedWest Ham2275102743-1626
15Tottenham HotspurSpurs22731245351024
16Everton214891828-1020
17Wolverhampton WanderersWolves2244143251-1916
18Ipswich TownIpswich2237122043-2316
19Leicester CityLeicester2235142348-2514
20Southampton2213181550-356
Scroll for more - Tap for full version


Sports Mole provides in-depth previews and predictions for every match from the biggest leagues and competitions in world football.
AL
Sign up for our FREE daily preview newsletter direct to your inbox!

Loading ...

Failed to load data.

history www

Two boosts - is Saliba one of them? Arteta delivers positive Arsenal injury update

1

TB
Two boosts - is Saliba one of them? Arteta delivers positive Arsenal injury update

Spurs, Leipzig among 'half of Europe' chasing Southampton star

2

SL
Spurs, Leipzig among 'half of Europe' chasing Southampton star

Preview: Plzen vs. Anderlecht - prediction, team news, lineups

3

PP
Preview: Plzen vs. Anderlecht - prediction, team news, lineups

Rotation or push for CL last-16 qualification? Emery names Villa XI for Monaco game

4

RO
Rotation or push for CL last-16 qualification? Emery names Villa XI for Monaco game

Man United 'make shock enquiry' for Premier League left-back

5

MU
Man United 'make shock enquiry' for Premier League left-back

'Verbal agreement': Man City set to sign third centre-back... but there is a twist

6

'A
'Verbal agreement': Man City set to sign third centre-back... but there is a twist

Preview: AZ vs. Roma - prediction, team news, lineups

7

PA
Preview: AZ vs. Roma - prediction, team news, lineups

Villa looking to end historical club streak in Monaco Champions League game

8

VL
Villa looking to end historical club streak in Monaco Champions League game

Tottenham to reignite interest in 'irreplaceable' Inter Milan star?

9

TT

Preview: Ludogorets vs. Midtjylland - prediction, team news, lineups

10

PL
1x1


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .