Stoke No2 Reid rates current Everton team up with his title winners

Stoke City assistant boss Peter Reid rates the current Everton team up there with his title winners.

Reid – voted 1985 PFA Player of the Year – insists the current Everton squad is the closest yet to the great side which he graced.

“I’ve been very, very impressed when I’ve seen Everton lately,” he told the Liverpool Echo.

“I’ve had the opportunity to see more of them since I finished managing Thailand and came back to the Premier League. I got to watch them beat Manchester City at Goodison and then Chelsea. Both of them were fantastic displays against top quality opposition, and it made the rest of the league take note. David had them denying the opposition time and space to play, and then they were very effective and controlled when they had the ball.

“Against Chelsea John Heitinga was playing those quality diagonal balls for Saha to run onto and they mixed that with periods of lovely passing.

“The tactics for both of those games were spot-on. You had to sit back and admire how Everton went about their work.”