It's pretty obvious there's a reason why Potter has a six year contract. There's also a reason why we're not spending gazillions on "the finished article". And there's also a reason why we're buying so much young talent and loaning players out to give them game time. We may have a bad season...
If you looked at that great "Fixture Difficulty" graphic, we had the second hardest opening 4 fixtures of any team in the Premier League....and that was based on Everton being a sort of mid-table team.