What a disaster Everton is. Everton has rightfully fired manager Frank Lampard after a horrendous first half of the season with them currently sitting in 19th place, though the board shouldn’t be let off the hook either.
Jaime Carragher once said that Everton was the worst run club in all of England. I don’t think that’s entirely true, but I’m beginning to believe he’s right with each new managerial hiring.
In what has to be the least shocking firing since Scott Parker was let go by Bournemouth back in August, Everton sacked Frank Lampard after one season in charge of the club. And, even though Lampard was not the biggest problem, he definitely wasn’t the solution either as Everton was a literal dumpster fire under his reign.
Not only did he unimpressively survive relegation by the skin of his teeth last season with a 3-2 win over Crystal Palace in the second to last game of the season, but he did so with a squad that cost 10X of Everton’s relegation rivals.
With players like Jordan Pickford, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Yerry Mina, Seamus Coleman, Andre Gomes, Anthony Gordon, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Allan, Richarlison, Demarai Gray, Alex Iwobi, and Andros Townsend, Everton should have comfortably finished 12th-15th with at least 10 points between them and the Bottom-3.
Sure, that 2021/22 squad was never going to win an FA Cup or break into the Top-8 of the Premier League, but a solid manager would have guided it to a safe finish.
That’s what Carlo Ancelotti, Marco Silva, and even Rafa Benetiz (for a while) were able to do during their brief stints.
However, last season’s close survival earned Lampard another year in the job with a chance to spend in the transfer market and improve the players at his disposal.
So, how did Lampard improve his players? Well…he didn’t. They only got worse.
Despite Bringing in players like James Tarkowski, Conor Coady, Dwight McNeil, Neal Maupay, James Garner, and Amadou Onana to shore up Everton’s defensive and offensive woes, Everton has struggled mightily in every completion they’ve played in this season as they have a 3-6-11 record in the league with a -13 GD, they were knocked out of the EFL Cup in the 3rd round by Bournemouth, and they were knocked out of the FA Cup in the 3rd Round by Man United a few weeks ago.
That record is not good enough for a club of Everton’s statue and is deserving of a sack.
Still, getting rid of Lampard will not solve Everton’s problems as owner Farhad Moshiri and his board either get their acts together and pick a competent, dedicated manager and director of football or leave the club.
These people at the top have seen Everton go from one of the best clubs in England (they finished in the Top-8 in 8/9 seasons before Moshiri took over) to one of the worst in the Premier League in the span of seven years (2016 was when Moshiri became majority owner).
It’s clear Moshiri has no idea what he’s doing as his hundreds of millions have gotten him nothing but failure, degrading of the club, and the abject hatred from the loyal Everton fans.
I don’t know how else to describe Moshiri’s time as owner as anything else than a complete failure.
Thus, this new managerial appointment might very well determine the future of Everton Football Club as if Moshiri gets it wrong again, there’s no guarantee the new manager will be able to keep the club from its first ever relegation from the Premier League.
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