I’m going to level with you, I really like the website www.statsbomb.com

It won’t be for everyone, but I find it challenges opinions, broadens horizons and gives insights that I don’t get from elsewhere.

Check it out and see if you agree.

Anyway, they’ve posted a season preview for the Blues, containing all of the above.

Give it a read

If Lukaku’s rumoured return to Chelsea goes ahead, we’ll be losing the most reliable goal-scorer Everton have seen for decades. I don’t truly know what style of football would suit the still-young Belgian, but it never felt we were particularly built around him, if only because it might have occurred to another team to stop making him look so clumsy with his back to goal.

If he leaves we’ll certainly miss his raw output, but I don’t believe he’s tactically irreplaceable, especially in an attack built around Deulofeu, if such a thing is possible.

And finally we have Ross Barkley. Did he make The Leap, or did he stumble again? Certainly, the same old habits held firm: the runs that went nowhere; the complete lack of recovery running; the terrible decisions.

But he began to show some sings of actual output last season, ending with 0.33 NPGA90. I would accept anything approaching Stones-level money for him in a heartbeat, but it’s entirely possible that slowly but surely he could one day, with the right training, stop being the most infuriating player on the team.