Week 4 of the English Premier League action comes to a halt with Everton beating Sunderland 3-0 win at the Stadium of Light.

 I predicted that Ronald Koeman would leave Southampton to join a bigger club towards the end of last season. Everton wasn’t a club in that ballpark. It was a move that baffled me. I looked at the two squads and the momentum Koeman had at St Mary’s, coupled with the mess at Goodison Park, and it didn’t make sense.

Southampton is a club that has achieved notoriety for selling their star players, but Everton plays that game as well – think Wayne Rooney and John Stones. Southampton has finished 14th, 8th, 7th, and 6th in previous Premier League campaigns. Likewise, Everton had finished 6th, 5th, 11th, and 11th. One side was on the up; the other was stuttering to a halt. Koeman should have stayed and waited for a bigger job.

And yet, with four games played in the latest Premier League campaign, Everton remain one of only three sides yet to taste defeat after delivering a one, two three to the chin of Sunderland in 11 knockout minutes at the Stadium of Light.