Everton will enter the final weeks of the season with the tantalising prospect of Europe within reach.

A return to midweek football on the continent was a distant dream during recent traumatic years of relegation fights on the pitch and boardroom, ownership and financial turmoil off it.

But the return of David Moyes, combined with the fresh resources and stability offered by new owners the Friedkin Group (TFG), have helped transform a club faster than most supporters could have dreamt.

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For Moyes, taking Everton back into Europe has been set as an expectation more than an ambition. When he first met the press in January 2025 after being recalled to Finch Farm to help save a club collapsing into a fourth successive survival fight, he injected belief into a club that had lost the ability to see promise in the future.

As the threat of the Championship loomed...