2022/23 Frank Lampard

[Mashtray]

It doesn't matter if we like Frank or not.

The question is, if we think he is going to get the sack in the next 3-5 games. We might as well do it now. We waiting for a run of results that most likely won't happen. So we just wasting time

 

[MikeH72]

Relax. As much as I don't like him, Frank has got this next game.

There's absolutely no chance we lose. The city and United performances will give confidence.

Frank knows how important this game is and so do the players.

I've never been more confident this season of a win.

Why would the United game give confidence RS? The City game was pre-Brighton so no.

 

[BlueToff]

If he's going to be good that's how. He's too slow to be a left winger who tries to beat guys on the edge. I don't think it'll happen on the right wing! But do the thing that can work. Otherwise just move him to LB which has been his destiny for years. He'll do better than Mykolenko.

I'm not saying he's been good but you have to take the growing pains as he tries something new. LW he is certifiably terrible. It can't be his future.

But he has produced more moments of actual quality - lack of a better term here - on the left than right. I just wouldn't play him at all, mind. Or buy him. But unfortunately they did.

 

[BlueToff]

I think we have when fit (so yeah Iwobi out hurts a lot) a team with enough PL level players to score 1 goal per game without being wide open. This is a low bar. The manager who isn't clearing it must be sacked. I'm not saying we shouldn't look to improve the team at the same time, but this manager has shown he can't hit even the most basic of targets and as such does not need more time.

I'm not actually disputing that Lampard should go.

I just don't think we become much better, in terms of end results, with just that alone mate.

 

[LeeCarsley]

It's funny you should mention Dyche because after last seasons effort in which he won 4 from 30 before getting sacked he's actually one of those few managers who probably can't do better.

He's certainly not my first choice but I think his pedigree and his ability to coach a press in comparison to Lampard is unimpugnable. Whether we truly need a pragmatist and a defensive specialist and not simply a better coach who can elevate limited players is the question. I certainly wouldn't mind if we attempted to play good football without sacrificing all sense of defending ability.

 

[Lanolin]

Like every signing, it’s all clear in hindsight. No one was complaining when they were made

Well they were to be fair. But that’s also kind of irrelevant isn’t it? It’s not our job to know how it’ll pan out, it was his.

 

[Lob]

Hopefully they somehow had the weekend off and he is dismissed this morning before the players report for training. I'm no fan of Dyche but you'd be hard pressed to find a professional manager who couldn't do better on three measly wins since August. Appalling record.

Hope so mate but it is looking more and more likely that they are going to let him do even more damage before they get rid of him. Making wrong decisions and damaging the club is the only thing they are good at. Going on a game to game basis at this point after what they have already seen this season is the most amateur thing you can do. He would have to do at least 3 times better just to reach 39 or 40 points and that is extremely unlikely considering he has never done that in his entire time at Everton.

 

[GrandOldSte117]

I'm not actually disputing that Lampard should go.

I just don't think we become much better, in terms of end results, with just that alone mate.

Look at it this way, as a commenter has said below me, Lampard needs to do at least 3 x better than his current form to end up on 39/40 points which he has never shown he can do at his time at Everton. Since this form has happened from the end of Rafas reign and all the way through Lampards, surely that's too small a sample size to say that what we're achieving is all we're able for?

 

[LocalNative]

That's it for Everton in the top division. Gross negligence to leave him in charge going into a relegation 6-pointer at home.

 

[BlueToff]

Look at it this way, as a commenter has said below me, Lampard needs to do at least 3 x better than his current form to end up on 39/40 points which he has never shown he can do at his time at Everton. Since this form has happened from the end of Rafas reign and all the way through Lampards, surely that's too small a sample size to say that what we're achieving is all we're able for?

I can safely say this squad is one of the poorest in the league. Of the 8 teams from 13th down that are in the relegation scrap as it stands, I'd say only West Ham and Leicester have squads that shouldn't be where they are. Maybe Wolves, but they haven't had a reliable way of getting goals for 18 months now, a bit like us. They have real quality in midfield though with Neves and Matheus Nunes.

The other five - us, Leeds, Forest, Southampton and Bournemouth. We're very poor IMO.

Now of all of those five teams I do think we have the better squad on paper, but I still don't think it's enough to pull away from where we are without reinforcements.

So, we need a manager that can overachieve to be able to drag us out of any danger before the run-in. I don't think that's Lampard and his record suggests he should go. But this squad needs additions.

 

[BlueToff]

That's it for Everton in the top division. Gross negligence to leave him in charge going into a relegation 6-pointer at home.

It's much more negligent to be 9 days into the window and not have signed any attackers when they've literally known what was needed for 7 months.

 

[Furey1878]

I didn't really think I needed to argue for why Dominic Calvert-Lewin is better than how he's looked.

Side note setting it so D. C. L. autocorrects to Dominic Calvert-Lewin but letting people type Lewin still is crazy.

I've started doing DC-L myself mate

 

[Nymzee]

Monday morning madness starts.

 

[BlueToff]

Ancelotti didn’t do a good job here, people genuinely should be accepting that by now. Paying the best part of £50m to revamp the midfield with a tugboat and a god knows what in order to move two places up the table from 12th to 10th was terrible, terrible, business which has been an enormous millstone round our neck.

I mean it's all relative.

We got 59 points in his one full season here. That's a lot of points. Our what, 4th best total in the last 20 years (I know, that's sad). Any other season out of the last 7 or 8, it gets Europe.

His failing came in the last few months of 20-21 IMO, when we failed to get Europe. Dropping from 4th to 10th between mid-March and mid-May is mental. That being said, had the club managed to do a smart bit of business - they were really close to getting Hwang, weirdly, though he's hardly pulled trees up at Wolves - with a quick wide forward, we'd have been guaranteed a Europa League place IMO.

On the flip side, having Ancelotti meant backing him with wages and fees. We spent £70m under him, which comparatively isn't that much to what has gone before. I mean to be fair we've spent over that in the last 18 months, although of course did sell Richarlison and Digne.

 

[Fatality]

We won at Anfield, the Emirates etc that season. We came comfortably mid table after challenging for Europe. We only lost in the cup because we drew City and the ref was a joke. We had knocked out Spurs before that.

To suggest Ancelotti is as bad as our last 2 managers means you are either on a wind up or don't understand football

Are people talking pancake about Ancelotti?

OK. Relegate us. We deserve it.