As part of our big season preview every year, the Royal Blue Mersey crew makes our predictions for the upcoming season, as well as trying to foretell where Everton will end up in the league and in the two cup competitions as well.
For the 2023/24 season, we all looked at –
Premier League Top 6, Everton position, Premier League Bottom 3, FA Cup Winner, Everton FA Cup, EFL Cup Winner, Everton EFL Cup, Premier League Golden Boot Winner, Everton Golden Boot Winner, Premier League Player of the Year, Everton Player of the Year.
With Sean Dyche getting a full summer to work on the squad as well as a handful of key signings during the transfer window, optimism for Everton going to the season was a little higher than in previous years under Rafa Benitez and Frank Lampard, and the predictions reflected that too.
With 18 categories to pick from, we’ve seen from previous years that it’s rare anyone gets more than a handful right, though this season we all did a bit better than previous years!
Our youth correspondent Geoff and news correspondent Peter tied in third place with six points each, with second place going to our women’s football correspondent John picking up seven points. The winner this season with eight points is site manager Calvin.
There can be an argument made that Everton should be twelfth but the eight point deduction takes that away, pushing them down to fifteenth. For the Everton Player of the Year award, it was very close once again with defenders James Tarkowski and Jarrad Branthwaite having excellent campaigns, but the best player for the Goodison Park outfit was clearly once again England #1 Jordan Pickford. While the Toffees’ keeper was stellar all season long and though he made his fair share of errors, more often than not it was his saves that kept the Blues in games to snatch points to prevent a nailbiting end to the season despite the Premier League’s best efforts to keep the Blues embroiled.
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