Can Everton still be considered a “big club”?

[LEONARD]

Not according to the Hamas Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC Sport's top 10 British football clubs​

1. Manchester United
2. Liverpool
3. Arsenal
4. Manchester City
5. Celtic
6. Chelsea
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Rangers
9. Aston Villa
10. Newcastle United

In an attempt to be more scientific, we have also taken a look at certain factors in isolation to see which clubs lead the way.

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[chicoazul]

Newcastle is so much bigger than Everton.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Although MUFC and LFC, and probably Arsenal, tick all the boxes, the rest is all about perception.
We are all biased, of course, but how on earth NUFC and THFC are in there while we are not, is baffling.

Relatively recent relative success, together with fanbase/history.

If we started getting into Europe and with our new stadium, then we'd be on that list

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

 

[Daytripper]

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Poor that isn’t it , unfortunately there are some who will see it as being entitled. I bet they’d be first to mouth off if we did end that barren period tho!

 

[Saint Domingo]

In 87 we were. We talked the talk for a bit but stopped walking the walk. The club lived off the past and chose not to move in to the future. Big club in name only.

After 30 odd years we've been left behind times change. Having said that even moderate success under TFG will elevate us and change perception. We're still a big name. Bigger than Newcastle. Forest. Etc

The stadium has already done a lot of that. The barrier stopping Bournemouth. Brentford Brighton and any other team that comes up from the championship is their match day revenue. The only way around that is to build a bigger stadium, and then they have the uncomfortable questions as to whether they have enough fans to fill that stadium regularly especially if they ended up going down. Everton never had that question.

We’ve taken a much bigger step than a lot of people outside the club might think towards cementing ourselves at the top of the game. We’ve got fan bases across the world especially in the US without even particularly trying and without winning anything. If the Friedkina start maximising our commercial pull and delivering success we’ll absolutely fly away from these teams.

 

[Gilbert..]

We might get it back now we've sacked dyche.
You can never ever claim to be a big club with Sean Dyche as your manager.

 

[If You Know Your History]

We have won the league more times than Chelsea and Spurs combined.

Only four clubs (the "big 3" + Man City) have won the league as many times as we have.

Our record attendance is almost 80,000.

Next season, we will get 53,000 fans every week even if we're in the bottom 5, despite the fact that we are on the doorstep of the RS.

Of course we're a big club.

 

[Blackwell Livermore]

The Mersey Millionaires are part of the Big Five, baby.

 

[PeregrineT]

Not sure who tried to convince people that a top 30 revenue club in the world isnt big.....but Id say we are just bad. Competence and size arent the same thing.

 

[Delargeinho]

Historically Everton is one of the biggest clubs in the country and ever will be. For sportive reasons, we've been an underperforming big club in the last 30 years, except maybe in the majority of Moyes' years, where we surely were apart from not winning trophies a club that made much with the financial possiblites in comparison.

Currently, teams like Bournemouth, Palace and Fulham can be more attractive to join they get a lot out of their possibilites and worked better than Everton did in the last few years, but Everton has on paper a far bigger potential, but it's now our task to tap this full potential under promising circumstances like a big revenue increase, financial stability, clear ownership.

 

[James Patrick]

Next season, we will get 53,000 fans every week even if we're in the bottom 5, despite the fact that we are on the doorstep of the RS.

Not sure we'll get that for midweek games v likes of Fulham or Brentford tbh.

 

[blueblue]

At the moment we are clearly not one of the big teams, when your last trophy is thirty years ago and you have spent a number of the intervening years battling relegation then it is hard to argue that we are one of the elite.

However, I do think the opportunity is there now to grow and become an elite club again in a relatively short period of time.

The stadium is now in place.
Wealthy owners are in place.
The fanbase has always been there.
W e have a solid manager who should get us back on a firm footing again over the next two or three seasons.

After that we need the club carefully run and some shrewd dealing in the transfer market as well as a productive academy.

 

[Drunken McKenzie]

It's not about how big your club is; it's what you do with it that counts.

 

[Rita_Poon]

IF you aint won a bean in a generation, you have no right to consider yourself a big club.

We were a big club, possibly the greatest club the world has ever seen, but that was a long time ago now, football moved on and left us behind.

But all is not lost.

We can rise again.