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2022/23 Frank Lampard

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This squad is not finishing mid table under any manager. Lampard doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, but no manager on earth could get this squad above about 14th, it’s truly truly diabolical.
Waken up man! No manager has us finishing mid table. It’s as ridiculous as saying the Villa, Sunderland or Leeds teams that went down would have them finished mid table with a change of manager.

They went down because the board mismanaged their finances over a period of time, had to sell/move on their best players or high earners and replaced them with cheapie misfits who weren’t good enough to keep them in the league. That’s where we are now as a club.

We’re the current Villa Lerner meltdown team, every fan of every other club can see it, they all think we’ve got one of the worst squads in the league and we’re looking at loans, player sales or deferred payments to be able to sign anyone. Our targets are going elsewhere, we’re wing outbid by rivals and we’re scraping the barrel.

Get angry but at the board who’ve put us in this position. Frank can go but the problems will be the same, it’s pointless being angry at the manager - it’ll be the same with whoever we bring in. We’re in managed decline….and not very surprisingly, we’re declining.

I don't think if you looked purely on paper at Brighton and Fulhams squads that you would pencil them in for 6th and 7th at the moment. Maupay looks like the worst footballer on earth for us but at Brighton he scored 8 goals. If we had signed Andreas Peireira and Willian they'd have been crap. We have bad players but a decent manager would be getting a lot more out of them.

Our squad is in no way worse than Bournemouth
 
Waken up man! No manager has us finishing mid table. It’s as ridiculous as saying the Villa, Sunderland or Leeds teams that went down would have them finished mid table with a change of manager.

They went down because the board mismanaged their finances over a period of time, had to sell/move on their best players or high earners and replaced them with cheapie misfits who weren’t good enough to keep them in the league. That’s where we are now as a club.

We’re the current Villa Lerner meltdown team, every fan of every other club can see it, they all think we’ve got one of the worst squads in the league and we’re looking at loans, player sales or deferred payments to be able to sign anyone. Our targets are going elsewhere, we’re wing outbid by rivals and we’re scraping the barrel.

Get angry but at the board who’ve put us in this position. Frank can go but the problems will be the same, it’s pointless being angry at the manager - it’ll be the same with whoever we bring in. We’re in managed decline….and not very surprisingly, we’re declining.

Here are his league results as Everton manager do you actually genuinely believe nobody could do better than this?

21/22

Brentford 4-1 W
Newcastle 1-3 L
Leeds 3-0 W
Southampton 0-2 L
Man City 0-1 L
Tottenham 0-5 L
Wolves 0-1 L
Newcastle 1-0 W
West Ham 1-2 L
Burnley 2-3 L
Man United 1-0 W
Leicester 1-1 D
Liverpool 0-2 L
Chelsea 1-0 W
Leicester 2-1 W
Watford 0-0 D
Brentford 2-3 L
Crystal Palace 3-2 W
Arsenal 1-5 L

22/23

Chelsea 0-1 L
Aston Villa 1-2 L
Notts Forest 1-1 D
Brentford 1-1 D
Leeds 1-1 D
Liverpool 0-0 D
West Ham 1-0 W
Southampton 2-1 W
Man United 1-2 L
Tottenham 0-2 L
Newcastle 0-1 L
Crystal Palace 3-0 W
Fulham 0-0 D
Leicester 0-2 L
Bournemouth 0-3 L
Wolves 1-2 L
Man City 1-1 D
Brighton 1-4 L
Southampton 1-2 L


1 × 4 consecutive defeats
3 × 3 consecutive defeats
4 consecutive home league defeats

He certainly has managed a decline alright!
 
If we couldn’t afford to sack the manager the club would be on the brink of liquidation. It’s nonsense to suggest we can’t afford to get rid of him
Unless there's someone out there who's not just the sort of manager we need (they're around), but also one who's out of work (limits the options) and would come here (even more limited options), then they have to factor in Frank's compo, that of all his backroom team and whatever we'd have to pay to pride a target manager (and team) from their current club. Many millions altogether.
 

Unless there's someone out there who's not just the sort of manager we need (they're around), but also one who's out of work (limits the options) and would come here (even more limited options), then they have to factor in Frank's compo, that of all his backroom team and whatever we'd have to pay to pride a target manager (and team) from their current club. Many millions altogether.
how are the players wages being paid then?
 
how are the players wages being paid then?
They're a fixed expense, just like Frank's wages and the coaching team's. Changing manager is a whole load of extra expense because we'd still have to honour any wages due to them for the remainder of their contract plus pay the new guy and his team for the same time period plus probably have to pay compo to his club for poaching him. Changing manager is a very expensive option compared to keeping the same one.
 

you’ve said this for how long?

something is a miss.

i bet we aren’t sacking him i bet
Que sera mate. You're just compounding the misery and stress. Very good chance he'll go if we lose to West Ham. Or we win. Moyes gets sacked then replaces Lampard after he loses against Arsenal
 
I don't think if you looked purely on paper at Brighton and Fulhams squads that you would pencil them in for 6th and 7th at the moment. Maupay looks like the worst footballer on earth for us but at Brighton he scored 8 goals. If we had signed Andreas Peireira and Willian they'd have been crap. We have bad players but a decent manager would be getting a lot more out of them.

Our squad is in no way worse than Bournemouth
It's objectively better than Bournemouth, Forrest, and Southampton at least. It is still poor, but we shouldn't be getting relegated. I don't buy that nobody could come in and do a bit better.
 
He will go after we lose to West Ham
I'm not making any predictions on this now.

Southampton was the game I finally broke on Lampard, and I expected the club would, too.

I think if there hadn't been so much focus on the board, they might have kicked Lampard in the wake of that defeat.

As things stand, I think even they are bright enough to realise it would've looked like one colossal distraction exercise to torpedo him there and then.

I also think the upper club hierarchy is in full self-preservation mode now. The interests of Everton FC are secondary.
 
I don't think if you looked purely on paper at Brighton and Fulhams squads that you would pencil them in for 6th and 7th at the moment. Maupay looks like the worst footballer on earth for us but at Brighton he scored 8 goals. If we had signed Andreas Peireira and Willian they'd have been crap. We have bad players but a decent manager would be getting a lot more out of them.

Our squad is in no way worse than Bournemouth
I literally had that same exact thought about both Peireira and Willian yesterday. But what does it say about the club and culture that our former manager is the one excelling there? I guess you could argue that he had time to build the style in his image in the Championship and has improved as a manager, but there's certainly a cultural issue with our club and players that needs to be changed. But it can't when we go from one crisis to another. The one tangible thing we can do now is change the manager and bring in two attackers. Both things should have already happened.
 

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