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Everton F.C - Turning Merseyside Blue
Everton Football Club are an English professional football team based in the city of Liverpool, and are affectionately known as The Toffees. The club holds the record for competing in the top division of English football with a total of 116 seasons, spending only 4 seasons outside the top flight (1930/31, 1951/52, 1952/53, 1953/54)! They have lifted the top division trophy on 9 occasions, putting them 4th on the all time records list behind Manchester United (20), Liverpool (18) and Arsenal (13)! However, the club's last league title came all the way back in the 1986/87 season and although they have managed to hang on to their place in the top flight ever since, it's been rather uninspiring for Toffees fans and they've not had too much to celebrate over the past few years!
Underachievers?
Everton have spent a lot of money over the years and every season they seem to be that team that bookies, fans and pundits alike seem to tip to break into the top 6 and qualify for European football each year....however, they seem to just about miss out, finishing 7th or 8th in 6 of the last 10 seasons! They've quickly earned a reputation as the 'nearly men'!
Not only that, but again every season they are tipped as a potential side to upset the apple cart in the cup competitions and lift a trophy, and in all honesty they are a big enough club that they should have done better in the domestic cups! The FA Cup hasn't been won since 1995 and the League Cup has never been lifted by Everton! Not only that, but in the League Cup they have only even made the semi final stage 4 times in their entire history, generally tending to crash out of the competition early on and have suffered some embarrassing defeats at the hands of lower league sides over the years! Since winning the FA Cup in '95, they've only made the semis of that competition 3 times in the past 24 years as well - days out at Wembley have been few and far between for Everton fans that's for sure!
Turning Merseyside Blue
So why is this story titled as 'Turning Merseyside Blue'? Well, while Everton have largely underachieved over the last 25 years, their local rivals, Liverpool, have gone from strength to strength and look to be on the verge of sealing another Premier League title win very, very soon! It's fair to say that Everton are currently living in the shadow of their Merseyside rivals, especially with Liverpool recently racking up their 6th Champions League Title....whilst Everton have only ever featured in that competition on one occasion, during the 2005/06 season, when they failed to even get through the qualifiers and make the group stage.
So what's my aim for this save....well to bring some glory days to Everton and put a smile back on the Toffees fans faces! Bring some trophies to the club, introduce European football as a regular occurrence season upon season, and of course become the biggest club in Liverpool, overtaking our main rivals and turning Merseyside blue! From there, the sky's the limit and who's to say we can't become a European powerhouse in time!
Youth Academy
I'm not putting any restrictions or challenges in place for this save and am going to play it with the freedom of a manager in real life. However, I would be stupid to ignore the Everton Youth Academy that has been responsible for the likes of Wayne Rooney, Richard Dunne, David Unsworth, Leon Osman, Ross Barkley and Jack Rodwell over the years! I will be looking to continue to focus on our youth development, whether it be to create worldwide superstars for our own success or create massive transfer fees to bring money to the club! In fact, this is one part of this save I am really looking forward to as I know we have the setup here to produce some fantastic regens during this save!
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