Premier League Preview: The fans’ view – Everton | OneFootball

Ahead of the 2025/26 Premier League season we spoke to fans of all 20 clubs to get their views on the upcoming campaign.

Here, we chatted to Michael from ToffeeWeb about all things Everton.

What lessons need to be learned from last season?

Scoring goals. The focus has been so much on defence — justifiably as we needed to be strong there and that is what saved us last season. But any progression needs to come from scoring goals and winning games. Who knew it was so simple?

What’s your view on the manager?

David Moyes came in and did a remarkable job last season, there is no denying that. Sean Dyche had created an almost impossible situation, with a poor stock of hopeless players that he himself admitted he could take no further.

But Moyes almost immediately oversaw a remarkable turnaround — the classic “new manager bounce” — producing an excellent run of form after sitting just one point above the relegation places, eventually finishing 23 points clear, and above two of Moyes’s former Premier League Clubs, West Ham United and Manchester United.

What’s your verdict on your summer transfer window so far?

Typically fraught with angst and frustration as so many players apparently said no to joining Everton. Let’s hope they regret it, starting with Liam Delap. But now with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, we have five* new signings so far and there may well be the nine or 10 that Moyes said we wanted by Transfer Deadline Day. We always seem to do most of our business near the end of the window.

*Jack Grealish has since become Everton’s sixth signing of the window*

One player to watch from your club this season

The one player I’d desperately like to watch develop and become a real star this season is Harrison Armstrong… but that probably won’t be happening at Everton because Moyes will deem him ‘not ready for the Premier League’ and he will be farmed out on loan again to a lower league club, where his flourishing talent will more than likely be severely nipped in the bud. He should be playing for Everton.

The most underrated player at your club is…

Charly Alcaraz. Strange choice perhaps because he’s already shown some potential… but I think there is a fantastic South American talent just beneath the surface, bursting to show itself on every Premier League ground in the country as he becomes the greatest breakout of the new Premier League season, driving Everton forward with a shedload of goals created and scored from midfield. He is about to become our new James Rodriguez — but young and fit and totally committed to becoming the most valuable player in the Premier League.

The game you’re most looking forward to this season is…

The first Premier League game at the new Hill Dickinson Stadium, against Brighton, which should be a new beginning in so many ways for a club that has been through the ringer as the last regime almost destroyed it, while ironically building such a fantastic new home for the club on the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey.

What opposition player do you secretly admire

For a long time it was Kevin De Bruyne for obvious reasons. Amad looked to be a new pretender to the throne but I wasn’t impressed at all with the way he threw himself to the ground at the slightest touch when we played them in pre-season. At least he scored for us though!

This season your team will finish…

In the top half of the Premier League, maybe a quintessential Moyesian Magnificent 7th to give us European football again!

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