Everton legend Neville Southall has now shared his thoughts on the current state of the club following a second successive relegation scrap.
The former goalkeeper has stated that there must be ‘major changes’ at Everton, insisting that we seem to be ‘really embarrassed’ to show any ambition.
Southall is Everton’s most decorated player and few individuals know the club better than the 60-year-old, who has long called for the Blues to show more ambition.
Speaking with BBC Radio Merseyside, Southall said: “There’s not going to be major changes and we’re going to be what we’ve been this season next season or just slightly improved.
We might be a fitter version of what we’ve done. To win stuff you have to be quality and we’re short on quality. Not low on effort but low on quality.
We need massive change, we need a change at the top for sure. We need investment and investment doesn’t always have to be money. It has to be a culture change in as much as you live up to the motto, you do things around the club.
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We seem to be really embarrassed about Goodison, about saying we want to win the league, about anything positive.”
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Everton face a huge summer as Sean Dyche looks to rebuild a squad desperate for investment, particularly in attack.
Indeed, Amadou Onana has been linked with a move elsewhere, and a fee for the Belgian could fund Dyche’s transfer plans, though the club remain stuck in the ‘sell to buy’ cycle.
The £60m departure of Richarlison to Spurs last summer and the £45m sale of Anthony Gordon to Newcastle are just the two latest examples of asset stripping at Everton, with few notable incomings to speak of.
Neville Southall knows what it means to be successful, and what it means to be an Evertonian which are two components missing from the club’s hierarchy in the modern era.