Now might be the time for David Moyes to make some changes.

We can all see this side has made progress since last season. There is more confidence, more intelligence and more guile than we have seen for some time. Not only is there a desire to have the ball much further up the pitch, there is the ability to use it, too.

But as nice as that is to see after the gruelling survival football of recent years, it is tough to watch Everton right now and conclude there is no room for improvement. Not all the answers lie in the squad - and that is fine, the summer could only ever have been stage one of a transformation that will have to continue over several years to deliver sustained progress. Some might though, and it may now be time to explore them.