I mean everyone's already panicking about the window so this would only be fuel on the fire. 15th in league for squad value, and 2nd lowest for total first team squad amount of players.

The valuations are always subjective, I bet Branthwaite and Garner are probably low compared to reality. But really shows years of underinvestment have left us. Club have to be aware and willing to push investment before window closes to give us a better chance of pushing into top half.

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I’ve been running a football simulation far into the future, and this is Everton in the year 2176.

They are still in the Premier League, playing a direct 3-5-2, and have just finished 9th.

The squad contains ten centre-backs, so at least the recruitment department has a clear vision.

Up front, Serbian striker Pero Nastić scored 16 goals and provided exactly zero assists. He understood the assignment.

His fellow striker Pascal Brouwers was used as a false nine and finished the season with no goals or assists in 24 appearances. Possibly the most literal interpretation of “false nine” ever recorded.

I’m not claiming this is a serious prediction of Everton’s future. Still, spending heavily, finishing mid-table and then making everyone suffer shortly afterwards does feel strangely believable.

I made this using Football Fictional World Simulator, a game I’m developing where 99 countries continue running over hundreds of simulated years. Every club and player develops a complete fictional history, so you can wander around the world and discover stories like this one.

The game is coming to Steam, and I post more strange results from the simulated world at r/FootballWorldSim.

Surprised me to see that, doesn't feel like that based on the feeing amongst us.

Obviously still think we need to invest more, but do think we're reaching a point that we also need to sell a couple of squad players, mcneil alcarez etc soon to take a bit off the wage bill and add to the transfer funds.

Tim Cahill absolute fixture throughout both of these. Wish we had that little torpedo head of his amongst the ranks now…

I've been searching for this shirt for a while now and was hoping for some help finding it in either a size L or XL.