I do feel for them they are in a right mess but relegation may be cathartic for them
Yeah, it might not be the worst thing to just have a year away from all the doom and gloom for once. Teams like Newcastle, Bournemouth, Fulham, and Villa tbf - they've benefited long-term from dropping down a level and just getting that winning feeling back. If Everton go down they'll immediately be the biggest team down there and they could win a (minor) trophy in their first year and come back up, get rid of the jobbers on massive contracts who couldn't give a fuck, and get a new atmosphere around the club.
I remember some Newcastle fans I know joking that their years in Championship were like spa holidays.
It worked for us, to be fair - admittedly that was 25 years ago but things haven't changed that much. Sometimes new blood and new thinking is needed. A new owner, 15 new players, it can work wonders. When we went down in 2001 our last competitive line-up of the season - in that awful Ipswich game - was Nash; Dunne, Howey, Wiekens; Charvet, Whitley, Tiatto, Grant, Granville; Wanchope, Dickov. Our first Maine Road line-up of the 02/03 season just 15 months later was Schmeichel; Jihai, Howey, Distin, Jensen; Wright-Phillips, Berkovic, Foe, Benarbia, Huckerby; Anelka.
You'd hope for Everton's sake that they can do something like that. Relegation will hurt but when they finish the 25/26 season 2nd in the Championship having won 30 of their 46 games it won't feel so bad anymore. I know they've got that proud record of having never been relegated in the modern era but it feels like a monkey on their back. Once it actually happens they'll see that things aren't so bad - that you can survive and rebuild and come back. It might take one year, it might take five, but Everton are like City, Wolves, Leicester, etc. and will return.
