IAN LADYMAN: It wasn’t Covid, it wasn’t about frozen assets – what did it for Everton was throwing substantial sums of money at substandard players… they gambled by trying to compete with their oil-rich counterparts and have paid the price
[ad_1] In the end it was decreed that it was the football that had got Everton into this sorry mess. Not the costs of a new stadium, the collapse of a naming rights deal or the impact of the Covid pandemic. No, it was football. Everton had — according to the Premier League and now…