If the future ownership of Everton is a confused picture, there have been few doubts about this being a season struggle against relegation.
Amid a highly welcome first win of the season were many signs that their thin squad may have enough to survive, and that whoever their new owners end up becoming, they might have a Premier League going concern on their hands.
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