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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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Kev The Rat said:
We were going down under him - no doubt about it.

That man is the blackest of black marks on our history
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People still trying to defend Benitez.lol Let it go people Everton won today, and Rafael Benitez is no longer of any relevance to this club thankfully!

The Benitez apologists need to be ignored at this stage. If they love him that much, they can go support the geordies or the rs instead.
 

Cork Evertonian said:
People still trying to defend Benitez.lol Let it go people Everton won today, and Rafael Benitez is no longer of any relevance to this club thankfully!

The Benitez apologists need to be ignored at this stage. If they love him that much, they can go support the geordies or the rs instead.
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I think you are being very harsh on your fellow Evertonians. Many on here, myself included, wanted to see him succeed, not for him but for us and our team. Would we have picked him over Lampard, no, but he was available and supposedly knew how to manage a team. He was found to be useless and I can’t believe anyone would argue with that. Just be happy that we now have the right manager…..
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Nonsense about FFP?

Read our accounts and educate yourself kind sir. We didn't spend £1.7 million in the summer for the fun of it.

We had to sell Digne just to fund our January business and likely pay off Benitez.
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Haha, you don't know either so it is nonsense - "likely".

I don't need to educate myself. I'm just not going to pretend like I have the inside track in regards to the PL sanctioning us or pretend I have an in depth knowledge of our finances because I read an article in the echo.
 
peteblue said:
I think you are being very harsh on your fellow Evertonians. Many on here, myself included, wanted to see him succeed, not for him but for us and our team. Would we have picked him over Lampard, no, but he was available and supposedly knew how to manage a team. He was found to be useless and I can’t believe anyone would argue with that. Just be happy that we now have the right manager…..
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I never expected him to be as bad as he was tbh. He just wasn't the right fit for this club. Early days yet, but it hopefully looks like Lampard is going to do a great job for us.
 

gwladysnight said:
Derby scraped into the play-offs on the last day and finished 6th, 20 points behind Norwich. They would not have even made it in to the play-offs if Bristol City hadn't fallen apart winning only one of their last 5 games. Derby then faced a Leeds side who had a similar collapse. Taking only one point from their last four games and who were in terrible form.

At Chelsea he inherited an excellent defence that was averaging mid-thirty League goals per season. He dismantled the five at the back, dropped the likes of Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Christensen and Alonso. Not only that he changed from a solid five to a wide open back four. Dropping Rudiger and replacing him with Zouma was bizarre. They went from conceding mid-thirties to mid-fifties in terms of League goals conceded.

Then we come to his Champions League record, I would hardly call losing 7-1 on aggregate in the round of 16 impressive. The bit I don't get is expecting him to be bold and innovative. His tactics are woefully outdated. Teams now look to press high up the pitch. Lampard's answer is to knock it around at the back to give them as much opportunity to win the ball as possible.

Before and after Lampard's tenure Jorginho was the most influential player in Chelsea's team. Week in week out, Jorginho was getting the most touches and was starting attacks. Lampard dropped him and looked to knock it around at the back with Thiago Silva then becoming the dominant player in possesion.

Lampard gets sacked and Jorginho is on the shortlist for the Ballon D'or. Lampard got the Derby job because his uncle Harry was a consultant at Derby. He then gets the Chelsea job after finishing 6th with Derby because rightly so he is a playing legend at Chelsea.

Lampard has done nothing as a manager to even show he is good enough for a job in the Championship, never mind managing a giant like Everton. Far from being a serial winner as a manager, he has won nothing. Benitez was a terrible appointment but Lampard has the potential to be far worse.
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You kopite halfwit.:D
 
Saint Domingo said:
At a time of unity they are still trying to kill a ghost. Like mad men driven insane after too many days at sea.
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Id believe you gave a rats arse about unity if the majority of your posts in many of the threads were not direct or veiled comparisons of what happened under the previous guy versus whatever is happening or gonna happen under the new one. Seem pretty deliberate wind up jobs especially in this thread and the match day ones. Always ends up with the same conversations. Its only been a couple weeks and its already tiring.
 
Lampard got it spot on today. Whatever he has done to Iwobi and Kenny, he needs to keep doing it. He even got Rondon seemingly up for it. Changes were good and at the right times. He is very refreshing and positivity on and off the pitch is infectious around the club.

Haven't watched his post match presser, saving it for a little pick me up in the next day or two. But I can picture him now, speaking really well and pragmatically about it.
 

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