OPINION
Sam Allardyce claimed that even though Everton invested a lot of money in making their squad better this season, it simply hadn’t worked.
The current Toffees manager revealed that he thought the club’s recruitment drive hadn’t achieved the desired affect that it wanted and suggested that the Merseyside giants needed to have another look at the situation.
“They (Everton) invested in the squad to make it better and it just didn’t happen,” said Allardyce, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
“I have to deal with that with the new owners and ask how we make it better?
“I can look at a similar situation at Liverpool when they sold Suarez and when Tottenham sold Bale, lots of players came in who didn’t hit the ground running and they got criticised for it.
“We seem to be like that, lots of players and it just hasn’t worked, we have to relook at the situation and start working hard on getting the first team and the fans enjoying their football.”
The Toffees have spent a mouthwatering £239million on incoming transfer from the start of the January window in 2017 to the close of winter dealings in 2018, according to the Daily Mail, but have spent the majority of this season battling the threat of relegation.
Most of the money has been spent in the last two transfer windows with the Toffees spending £150 million last summer on recruiting new players, according to BBC Sport, to make themselves the fifth biggest spenders in Europe.
The club then spent a further £47million on transfers, as reported by Sky Sports, in January by signing Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott.
Several summer arrivals such as Gylfi Sigurdsson and Davy Klaassen have not done enough to justify their huge price tags, but it has hardly been their fault.
In hindsight, it is perplexing that the Toffees signed Sigurdsson, Wayne Rooney and Klaassen all in the same window as it was impossible that all three would succeed at the club given their similar positions.
Now while Allardyce’s comments normally infuriate fans as supporters just appear to want him gone, they cannot argue with his latest claim.
The Toffees manager is spot-on by stating that the club’s recruitment drive needs to be looked at, as the club clearly have wasted a lot of money on players who have not worked out.