Welcome to the Everton FM26 team guide! What a story this club has, and now a new chapter is being rushed in with a lovely new stadium.
This Everton FM26 team guide will look assess the team’s key players and how to build a tactic using data driven decisions.
By the end of this guide you will have fundamental understanding of how to manage Everton.
So this is where we start with the Everton FM26 team guide, the club overview. In this section we get to grips with the expectations of the board and the fans. We look at what they are, where they affect us and how we use them to our advantage.
Starting with the board objectives we can see there is a linear approach in their focus. They want to develop players using the club’s youth system, which is something they strive for in real life. The great advantage to this is that you can create a Barcelona approach to this, like under Pep.
The fans also love to see local heroes coming through the youth academy and want you to use it to develop the best youngsters possible. They also want entertaining football and this gives us some direction on our tactical style. Choose one, Gegenpress, Possession Control or Tiki Taka? All these tick the box.
Want to try this with a different team? Check out the Brighton version here.
As we continue this Everton FM26 team guide, it’s time to examine the squad. By checking the assistant reports and star ratings, we first determine who the core players are based on current ability, alongside which young talents have the highest potential.
After that, we review each player’s ideal position and use this to construct the formations that best fit the squad, shaping how the team will line up.
While it is a small list of key players for Everton, these players are the fundamental players of Everton, ask the FPL crowd. It’s always good to have a great keeper in your key players, it’s a position which can be very difficult to recruit for.
Also the defensive triangle of DM – DC – DC is just asking to be included in whatever formation you choose, solid. That leaves Jack Grealish on the wing, he could be our focus for distribution and plays well in most attacking tactical styles.
Shock! Horror! Tyler Dibling has the highest potential in the squad, especially all the talk about him last year at Southampton. I can’t help but notice that the Everton attack seems to lack depth. Once a player is out there isn’t much to back him up, especially across the attacking midfield line.
There are a lot of wonderful talents here and the thing we can always commend Everton on is producing their own timber. Their youth academy has been really good over the years, even the young players they have brought in look good. The team is looking like 4231 DM, 433, 4141 or even a 41212.
Formation Verdict: 4231 or 433.
So as we saw earlier in the Everton FM26 team guide the Wonderkids at Everton are:
It’s no surprise that these guys are the wonderkids at Everton on FM26. Tyler Dibling has been talked about for a season at Southampton, so eventually he will come good. Aznou was bought in the summer and Everton have a nose for bringing in top youngsters.
This section of the Everton FM26 team guide is where everything comes together. Using our evidence-based tactical approach, formation selection, and core squad picks, you’ve now got everything required to begin your journey. Everton are set up perfectly for a strong opening campaign in FM26.
So as we have seen above, Moyes has a strong grip on this team as we can see in the identity. It’s only right that we lean into that and play a formation that suits his style. We have gone 433 DM in possession and 4141 out of possession, which utilises our best players. This is a very simple and traditional transition for the 433 and it enhances our strengths.
The main move in the transition is getting those wingers up to the AML/AMR spaces to create some chaos. The then move inside and the wing backs move up the flanks to stretch the defence. This creates a 5 to 6 man attack which overloads certain parts of the defence.
This shape works even better if you use the FM26 433 transition model.
I definitely think that the Everton FM26 team guide has exposed the lack of depth in the Everton attacking midfield. Currently you have Jack Grealish on loan, Tyler Dibling on the up and Alcaraz in the middle. This means there is a lot of scope for improvement and depth in the midfield.
So I want to go a bit wild here. I think with Everton we could build a profile of buying players:
Examples are:
Ronnie Edwards (Southampton)
Catalin Cirjan (Dinamo Bucuresti)
Danny Namaso (Porto)
Marin Petkov (Levski)
The main thing for Everton is to build on last year’s progress and keep well asway from the relegation battle. They are in a great new stadium and this should signal the start of the good to great drive, like what has happened with a number of other teams.
It’s time to play that bullish football that puts teams in the top half and sign those players which enjoy playing that football. The days of sitting there countering are over, it’s not going to win Everton anything.
Everton have got the world at their feet, they have a beautiful new stadium, they have a new owner with bundles of money and a youth that churns out good players for the squad. This really is a rebuild and you can take Everton to the top with the right decisions and patience.
I managed them using the Everton FM26 team guide for the first half of the season and it was amazing what we achieved. I managed to finish at Christmas in 4th, when I wanted to go from good to great I didn’t expect this quick. We conceded the lowest in the league, but we need to score more.
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