"I'm joining a football club which is probably the people's club in Liverpool - the people in the street support Everton and I hope to give them something over the next few years that they can be very proud of."

Those were the words of David Moyes when he took over at Everton for the first time in 2002. Over the next 11 years, he presided over the club's best period during the Premier League era.

Everton finished in the top eight in nine of Moyes' 11 full seasons in charge, even securing a top-four spot on one occasion. Moyes is undoubtedly returning with the club in far worse position than he left it in.

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The Toffees have finished in the bottom half of the table in the majority of seasons since Moyes left and they are currently just one point above the drop zone.

The woes of Everton's supporters are exacerbated by what is going on across Stanley Park, where Liverpool remains in the pursuit of glory on all four fronts.

Liverpool sits at the top of both the Premier League and the Champions League, remains in a decent position to reach the Carabao Cup final, and gets its FA Cup campaign under way against League Two outfit Accrington Stanley on Saturday.

In Moyes' final season at Everton, he guided the club to a sixth-placed finish — one place higher than Liverpool managed under then-manager Brendan Rodgers.

There is now a chasm between the two clubs on the pitch and Moyes has a lot of work to do before he can start thinking about the teams in the top half of the table, let alone Arne Slot's high-flying Liverpool side.