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Can Everton finally break into the top four?
KADEEM SIMMONDS looks at the Toffees chances under Martinez

This time last season, Everton fans were unsure on whether Roberto Martinez was the right man to lead the club after David Moyes. Fast forward 12 months and the question is Moyes who?

Martinez transformed the club within weeks, playing a much more attractive brand of football with the same players as well as getting the best out of players who seemed to be stagnating under the previous regime. 

Tim Howard, Leighton Baines and Seamus Coleman, to name a few, looked like new players last year and the emergence of John Stones and Ross Barkley in the first-team squad had the Merseyside club looking like a whole new team.

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