View: Everton component that must be added to attack - It's a dying art

Everton chiefs will already be well underway in their planning for a big summer transfer window ahead.

There was a number of Everton supporters who were disappointed with the lack of transfer activity from their team in this season’s winter window, with Tyrique George the only new arrival in January.

However, with David Moyes’ side sitting eighth in the Premier League at the moment, the Toffees are still set for one of their best league finishes in recent years.

So, with funds saved and signings not made for the sake of it, Everton are expected to be busy in the transfer market ahead of the 2026-27 season.

Everton are missing a key element to their attack this season

Everton have been backed to make six signings when the summer transfer window re-opens in June, with Hill Dickinson Stadium chiefs no doubt keen to build on a good campaign so far.

When targeting new players in the coming months, particularly in attack, there is one trait in particular that they should be looking for to add into their team moving forward: long-ranged shooting ability.

Indeed, as per Sofascore, Everton have scored just two goals from outside the box in the Premier League so far this season, with 30 coming from inside the box, with their other two from the penalty spot respectively.

Scoring goals has been a significant problem for the Toffees this term, with just 34 in the league this term, which is only two more than Burnley in 19th and one fewer than 18th-placed West Ham respectively.

Everton need to find more avenues to goal next season and moving forward, and so adding in a player that forces opposition sides to respect and defend against long-ranged efforts would be a shrewd move indeed.

Long-ranged goals are becoming a dying art

As football at the very top becomes more tactical and almost robotic with each passing year, fewer and fewer teams are placing more and more value on scoring the perfect goal, with the stock of the screamer tumbling.

Detailed in a BBC Sport report, in the 2006-07 Premier League season, 22.3 per cent of non-penalty goals came from outside the box, whilst in 2023-24, that figure had dropped to just 12.4 per cent.

Nowadays, most goal of the month competitions are flooded with long passing moves culminating in a player finding the net, and whilst brilliant in their own right, is there anything quite like a 30-plus-yard thunderbolt into the top corner?

We’ve seen the likes of Arsenal rewarded greatly for buying into the set-pieces stock, with those situations brought back into fashion, to the point where it’s almost unfashionable not to have a set-piece coach on the payroll.

So, why not long-ranged shots next? Everton don’t really pose a threat from outside the box this season, but by adding a screamer-specialist this summer could take the Toffees’ attack to the next level.

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