Why Everton's crisis is just the tip of the iceberg
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Everton are rock bottom of the Premier League with zero points and zero goals from their opening three games, but their problems extend way beyond their on pitch struggles.
Joining Ayo Akinwolere today is The Athletic's Everton correspondent Paddy Boyland and investigations writer Matt Slater to explain what the collapse of the MSP Capital deal means for both the club's new stadium and its transfer strategy, plus whether there's any light at the end of the tunnel.
Plus, insight from Italian football writer James Horncastle, on whether their new striker, Beto, can at least help to end the goal drought.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.9 | After back-to-back relegation battles, Everton supporters would have been forgiven for thinking |
| 0:10.3 | it couldn't get any worse this summer. |
| 0:13.1 | In towards Kalynex. |
| 0:17.4 | Waves in front. |
| 0:18.8 | Sean Dic's team have lost all three of their opening Premier League games without scoring a single goal. |
| 0:24.7 | And I'm afraid that's just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 0:27.9 | Let's dig into this. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Ayahuakim Alare. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | This is the sign of a club in crisis for the leadership. |
| 0:38.3 | So unpopular, the entire executive board was warned to stay away from today's game. |
| 0:44.3 | It's a guy for what they call a broken club. It's not broken. |
| 0:50.3 | It's not broken. We've had it's cracks, but he's not broken. We've shown that. We've shown the fighting spirit that you need. But the E-Club just told the players, we shouldn't be a mistake. So we've got to learn from that. Next season's going to be a big season. All right, I guess for this one, our Everton reporter, Patrick Boyland, and our senior football news reporter, Matt Slater. |
| 1:13.7 | Paddy, let's start with you. |
| 1:15.4 | Are we really talking about this season's first crisis club? |
| 1:20.1 | What, just three weeks into the brand new Premier League campaign? |
| 1:23.8 | I was saying to somebody the other day that it feels like the last two and a bit seasons have all kind of merged into one. |
| 1:29.9 | All kind of crisis, relegation battles, lack of money. |
| 1:34.2 | I mean, they are distinct in some ways. |
| 1:36.0 | There are different managers operating in these different seasons. |
| 1:38.8 | But a lot of the issues span the whole three-year period. |
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