Our Net Spend Over the Last Five Years

[Brett Angell Delight]

So we may be underperforming from a wages point of view, but from a player investment point of view we lay in 18th place after five years (half a decade).

Even if you take the wage bill into account, it’s hardly mega spending from a Premier League point of view is it, which is why the continued ‘wasteful Everton’ narrative wrecks my head.

If you stop investing in players in the Premier League, then you eventually end up going down. Happened to Villa, happened to Sunderland, and even happened to Leicester after only a slight reduction in spending. It will happen to us soon imo.

Pretty sure that, very recently, wages were ~90% of turnover, which was the highest such ratio in the league.

Need to get the wage bill down and pay for a stadium, and our sugar daddy can't bail us out anymore. THAT is why we're 18th in the net spend table.