2022/23 Frank Lampard

[Azza]

Anyone got a summary of what he said after the game yesterday?

Sack the board

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Initially it was a feel good story. Gave the club the opportunity to appear as it wants.

He’s absolute muck. He can’t attack, he’s an average defender. He wouldn’t look out of place in league one/two. He’s not even championship standard going forward.

Without getting into if he's any good or not, I suspect the reason we played him last season was because we'd sold Digne and had no other specialist left fullback.

This season its presumably because Vinagre is poop.

Don't think nationality comes into it here mate.

 

[Drico]

The place where real change is needed is in the ownership / executive board of the club. I like Frank and I'd like it to work for him but ultimately its a results business and the board are big on self preservation. The big worry is who comes in. If KT has a say then what odds we end up with Nuno.

We have a mediocre squad. We change managers we'll still have a mediocre squad. We have improved defence and midfield this season but that front 3 yesterday is not going to keep us in the league, in fact its hard to think of a less inspiring front 3 in the league. Gordon should be an option from the bench, McNeil offers next to nothing, and Maupay is a non-scoring second striker.

Boxing day table positions:

2016 - 7th
2017 - 9th
2018 - 8th
2019 - 13th
2020 - 2nd
2021 - 15th
2022 - 17th

Aside Carlo's amazing first half of the 2020-21 season where we had James, Siggi, and Digne providing and Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the best form of his life the general trend has been downward. Just boils my blood when we get messages from DBB grinning about positive changes and puff pieces in the Athletic about how good a job KT is doing as if all the problems of the last 6 years were just about not having the right DOF in place.

Make no mistake we will be down without a striker no matter who is in the dugout.

The Athletic is Everton Pravda. I dumped my subscription after a few months of Paddy Boyland's ingratiating hagiographies. A waste of money.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Anyone got a summary of what he said after the game yesterday?

"We performed well in parts, but we didn't have the quality where it counted ultimately.

Those who are criticising aren't looking at the full pie, whereby having a top striker is just one part of the pie.

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer’s always the same, to me, they’re not mutually exclusive.

I can wake up one morning and go, ‘I don’t feel like working today. Can I stay in bed?’ ‘You’d better ask the boss.’ ‘Frank, can I stay in bed?’ ‘Yes, Frank.’ Both me. Not me in bed with another bloke called Frank'".

 

[Gilbert..]

Have to feel for Lampard in some respect.

All the quality we had has been sold. The biggest issue has been the appointment for that fat Spanish chunt. He was allowed to get rid of James and then Digne. That coupled with Sigurdson, we have little to no quality in being able to produce goals.

Then they sell Richarlison from beneath him, what’s he meant to do? Let’s have it right, Grey cost 1.5m because he’s dogmuck. Gordon is absolutely terrible, lads stalling on a 100k a week contract but can’t even finish a 1on1, where it’s harder to miss than score.

McNeil & Maupay is on KT. He’s responsible for signing off on players, McNeill is honestly one of the most pointless wide players I’ve ever seen. He can’t beat a man.

I like Lampard, but unfortunately it’s getting to that time.

The players that will be bought this Jan, to attempt to save this car crash, need to be players that can be used weather Lampard is in charge or not.

Otherwise we get dogmuck like Mykolenko. If he wasn’t Ukrainian he wouldn’t be playing, and as much as I don’t like Duncan Ferguson, if his comments on that train about Myko are true, well at least he had him figured out.

I do feel for him a little tbh. When the fume and mist settles those points you make are very valid. Without repeating it as much. We sold a striker who lead the line for Brazil in the world cup. And replaced him with someone who isn't even a striker as such.
The club has failed to recruit forwards for a couple of years now. Hey guess what...we are struggling to score goals now. Who'd have guessed that.

Replace lampard. Bring in a new manager. Dont address the forward line issue and nothing will change.

 

[Drico]

I'm not sure turning on the fans who he has so assiduously courted since his arrival is a great strategy for holding on to his job, to be honest.

I mean, he's blamed previous managers in the past. He's blamed the players in the past. And now he has moved on to the fans. I think he's fast running out of options before he has to look in the mirror.

 

[Aries]

I do feel for him a little tbh. When the fume and mist settles those points you make are very valid. Without repeating it as much. We sold a striker who lead the line for Brazil in the world cup. And replaced him with someone who isn't even a striker as such.
The club has failed to recruit forwards for a couple of years now. Hey guess what...we are struggling to score goals now. Who'd have guessed that.

Replace lampard. Bring in a new manager. Dont address the forward line issue and nothing will change.

What forwards do Bournemouth have? The World Cup break seems to have clouded people’s memories, but incase you’ve forgotten we got battered by bloody Bournemouth twice in a week shipping 7 goals in the process. He should have been out there and then. The lengths some go to to defend this clown is incredible just because he “gets us”. This “he gets us” guff gets right on my tits.

 

[malmic]

For people to think that changing a hopeless manager with a decent one doesnt work just look at M'Boro with Carrick and the Spanish chap at WBA. There are many more

Look at Notts Forest last year from rock bottom to Premier league

Lampard is getting the benefit of the doubt and he is playing with a side with several new players which he accepted

No more excuses.

Some guys are obsessed with him

At this rate we are surely in trouble and no Pickford or Goodison crowd will save us this year

 

[judge]

Just like all managers who aren't up to it, he trots out the same drivel after each defeat. "we'll keep working hard", " we need to be more clinical" (because we missed a good/half chance - let's not mention that other teams miss chances but then go on to create others, some of which they score), "we had intesity/energy". He should have been sacked the first time he came out with this 'Scott Parker inspired tosh', it shows that he knows nowt!

 

[fuko~]

Think he and the board both have made the decison wrong on DCL. They chose to trust him to back in fit and invest the money wrong on Maupay rather than a target man. We and Lampard need a miracle to sign an excellent CF to rescue this season.

 

[mccole]

For me the blinding obvious tactic was Godfrey on the left to help against Traore and low and behold, attack down the left and goal.

 

[dannyboy]

My view on Lampard has always been he should get 2 full seasons providing we didn't look odds on for the drop. Unfortunately, we are fast approaching that point.

The club will obviously be desperate to keep him so I think he will stay even if we get no wins from the next 3. I can't see him surviving no win against Southampton though.

 

[The Littlest Yobo]

Get shut now. Give the new manager a full transfer window to at least give them a puncher’s chance of staying up. Lampard is tactically inept. He’s shown absolutely zero indication he has anything in his locker to take us forward. Obviously, the utter exploding clown car of a board won’t have anyone lined up but we are heading down, as it stands, and Frank is utterly clueless.

 

[hktoffee]

For people to think that changing a hopeless manager with a decent one doesnt work just look at M'Boro with Carrick and the Spanish chap at WBA. There are many more

Look at Notts Forest last year from rock bottom to Premier league

Lampard is getting the benefit of the doubt and he is playing with a side with several new players which he accepted

No more excuses.

Some guys are obsessed with him

At this rate we are surely in trouble and no Pickford or Goodison crowd will save us this year

I like Frank he speaks well. I said he gets a free pass for me as long as we stay up. However, 3 wins in 16 is too much to take. Signing poo like McNeil and Maupay is too much to take too. 12 goals in 16 I simply don’t know where are the goals coming from in order to save us from relegation. We always play crap and sometimes were behind in 40s50s mins but he waited waited waited and made awful subs with 10 mins to go.

Man City signed Alvarez for £14m we signed freaking McNeil and Maupay for £35m. Happy Xmas the recruitment team shame on you, you lot are a disgrace.

 

[Gilbert..]

What forwards do Bournemouth have? The World Cup break seems to have clouded people’s memories, but incase you’ve forgotten we got battered by bloody Bournemouth twice in a week shipping 7 goals in the process. He should have been out there and then. The lengths some go to to defend this clown is incredible just because he “gets us”. This “he gets us” guff gets right on my tits.

Well they have bleedin forwards on their books for a start. We dont even have that.