Everton are stepping into Bramley Moore next season, and David Moyes' return to the dugout feels apt in a way.
Many interminable years of strife and suffering have prevented Everton from reaching the heights the fanbase has yearned for, with early ambition under Farhad Moshiri devolving into profligate dysfunction.
Moyes' team have displayed early signs of hitting a level unseen on the Blue half of Merseyside for many years, but to solidify that in the long run, The Friedkin Group will need to back the manager in the transfer market.
Everton manager David Moyes celebrates after the match
Everton must also balance experienced incomings with homemade potential, for Everton's youth ranks could make all the difference in the long run.
While we're on that topic, let's take a look at Goodison Park's youngest goalscorers through the Premier League era.
Everton's youngest Premier League goalscorers
He might not have kicked on, but James Vaughan's goal in a 4-0 drubbing over Crystal Palace in 2005 remains not only the youngest goal scored by an Everton player, but indeed any player competing in the Premier League.
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When Wayne Rooney found the back of the net against Arsenal three years earlier, however, it was merely the start of an incredible career that saw him win five top-flight titles with Manchester United as well as the Champions League.
Danny Cadamarteri's promising start also petered off on Merseyside, though left-back Michael Ball enjoyed a fast start to life and went on to play for clubs such as Rangers and Manchester City - but his career was blighted by injuries.
Everton have a range of exciting prospects in the ranks right now, and there's one in particular who could emulate former marksmen like Vaughan in making an immediate impact under Moyes' wing.
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He's not quite so young, but there's one rising number nine who could nail down a place in the years to come, perhaps even serving as Beto's understudy and as Dominic Calvert-Lewin's homegrown successor.
Moyes must unleash 18-year-old Calvert-Lewin heir
Calvert-Lewin, 27, is out of contract at the end of the season and, currently sidelined and with only three goals from 22 Premier League matches this season, is likely to venture off for pastures new.
In the pipeline
In The Pipeline
Everton do have a resurgent talisman in Beto, who has scored five goals from six recent fixtures, but with signings needed across the park, it would do the club the world of good to hit the jackpot with a new young goalscorer.
Well, Martin Sherif may be the man for the job.
Everton's Martin Sherif
The 18-year-old centre-forward has recently earned regular appearances in senior matchday squads - as Vaughan did under Moyes as a teenager - although Sherif has yet to make his professional debut despite sitting on the bench in seven of eight recent Premier League outings.
He's also posted 29 goals and eight assists across 72 appearances for the U18s and U21s, hailed for his "composed" finishing by The Athletic's Patrick Boyland.
The Netherlands youth international has also hit four goals from nine games (six starts) for the U21s in 2024/25. Standing at 6 foot 3, he has the suitable profile to take Calvert-Lewin's place in the squad, for the England international ranks among the top 8% of positional peers across Europe for aerial battles won per 90, as per FBref.
Cherif had begun to find himself included among senior reckoning before Moyes replaced Dyche in the dugout, but the Scotsman seems to share his predecessor's vision that this powerful and pacy forward has the minerals for a career at the highest level, with reporter Lewis Bower hailing him finishing ability and knack for "always causing problems."
Let's hope that unlike Vaughan, Sherif can prove to be more than a one-hit wonder, and instead become a major player as Calvert-Lewin's long-term successor at Bramley Moore.
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Everton hit the jackpot by selling their original Gordon for 1,567% profit
Everton sold their original Anthony Gordon for a sizeable profit.