Everton ended up coming 13th in the Premier League in 2025/26, which many would actually have taken at the very start of the season.
It was the first full season of The Friedkin Group being owners, and the objective was to be as far clear of the relegation zone as possible, after the struggles of previous seasons.
It was acknowledged that Everton had a lot to do and so, having a fairly safe season was what most wanted.
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But then the picture started to change, as Everton picked up results.
Come the start of the calendar year, Everton were doing better than expected.
And even going into the last few weeks of the season, the Toffees were still in contention for European football, before throwing it away.
Everton finished with a seven-game winless run, which was truly awful.
And now, we need to hear from The Friedkin Group.
The Friedkin Group must break radio silence amid Everton fans’ concerns
Plenty of Everton fans are still disgruntled about the way the season ended. And rightly so.
To have gone the last seven games without a win was so poor. Had Everton got just four more points on the board then the Toffees would have got Europe.
It was such a wasted opportunity.
Granted, there were some factors that did not help Everton.
The loss of Jarrad Branthwaite and, to a lesser extent, Idrissa Gana Gueye to injury were not ideal, and there were also some poor refereeing decisions.
But David Moyes made some remarkably strange decisions in those final games which contributed to such a poor run. The continued use of Jake O’Brien at right-back, when the team were crying out for him to be used in the middle, was a big one.
He also neglected the younger players who may have made a big difference, with a lot of the regular starters out on their feet.
What is alarming is that Everton had this end to the season and barely a word has been spoken about it.
CEO Angus Kinnear gave some thoughts ahead of the final home game against Sunderland, taking the opportunity to talk up the stability Moyes provides.
But his ‘we can be happily dissatisfied’ remark has gone down like a lead balloon and really, we now need to hear from the very top.
The radio silence from The Friedkin Group is worrying.
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It’s been over a week now since the season ended and we haven’t heard a peep from the owners, about what they think of Everton’s unacceptable end to the season, if they truly back Moyes, and the plan moving into the summer.
It is coming across like they accept Everton’s end to the season, when it was unacceptable. If Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall can call it out for what it was, then so can TFG.
The lack of communication has been something fans have been growing increasingly concerned about, so hopefully we do hear from them extremely soon.
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