West Ham have the last laugh over Everton

Everton have proved that the size of your transfer spending over the summer doesn’t guarantee success on the pitch as they lost their fourth game in a row over the weekend conceding twelve goals without scoring a single goal.

The Merseyside club spent £143m in the summer after receiving £96m the other way for Lulaku, Deulofeu and Cleverley.  Four of their incoming players cost over £24m including £44m for Sigurdsson.

Everton fans taunted Hammers fans at the beginning of the season pointing out that Jordon Pickford had kept three clean sheets while West Ham had conceded seven goals in their first two games and pointed to Joe Hart as a poor loan signing.

Now the tables have turned with four back to back losses for Everton letting in twelve goals, nine of them at the hands of Pickford. Meanwhile, their newfound firepower cannot find the net.   West Ham have kept three clean sheets from their last four games scoring six times and conceding three goals to Newcastle.

Just goes to prove that so far the amount you spend in the summer transfer window does not automatically translate to results.