Evertonians seem to be a pessimistic group by nature.
Every other club that spends money buying unproven players for huge sums are seen to be passing us out...even though history has shown us that this simply hasn't happened. Some of these new generation teams are plying their trade in the championship and have even recently played in the dizzy heights of League 1.
Likewise , for all the lip service paid about the talent in our squad, it isn't really believed as we are constantly told we need any number of new players the only exception probably being left back.
Other clubs seem to rate our players more highly than some of our own supporters.
Baines, Stones, Jagielka, Lukaku, Mirallas,McCarthy, Besic,Barkley and Coleman are players that most other premiership clubs would dearly love to have in their squad. Those players listed surely form the basis of a team that could compete with most.
I think we need two.
A centreback to add depth to Jagielka, Stones and Browning.
A creative attacking central midfielder as last season at times we lacked a creative spark to unlock teams that defended deep against us.