2022/23 Frank Lampard

[BlueToff]

It’s not luck when it keeps happening. I just think Everton managers seem to have a unique knack for turning a bad performance into a whirlwind of utter chaos that ends with them getting fired.

Players get injured, we start conceding screamers from absolute no marks every week, there’s red cards, bad VAR calls, and before you know it a team that hasn’t looked that bad suddenly looks the worst in the league in the space of about five games. I’m still not sure how Silva’s team went from 8th to being fired, Carlo’s from being second in the league and a rock solid defence to Burnley waltzing through us at Goodison, Benitez’s from starting off very decently to getting decimated by Norwich.

I mean this is an issue with how we were defending though. Coady just stands off, Tarkowski wants to block everything. We allowed so many shots at the beginning of the season and got away with it - all the stats back this up.

Tielemans is a brilliant player and we gave him time to get the ball down and shoot from the edge of the box.

Like how v Wolves, we gave Moutinho the time and space to bring the ball down and lob a pass to the back post.

See similarly - letting JWP free in the box then giving him a FK right on the edge of the box.

If you give good players opportunities to punish you, they will do.

We have thick, bad players. We had a manager unable to mitigate against it, unfortunately.

 

[ashwuk76]

Maybe they have a new manager lined up already and they are going to do a triple announcement.... lol lollollollol

 

[Walken]

Thing is it is yet another. Silva seems to have coped, Martinez likewise. All of those managers we have binned cant be that bad, so what is it that brings the loser vibe to everyone? Answers on a postcard to...

Martinez has been dreadful and utterly wasted a nations best generation, Koeman managed to make Barca look bad, Sam relegated west brom. We all knew Carlo was a quality manager and Silva was the one most people regretted not doing well and fely he was a bit unlucky both on the pitch and the transfer window.

 

[BlueToff]

I mean this is an issue with how we were defending though. Coady just stands off, Tarkowski wants to block everything. We allowed so many shots at the beginning of the season and got away with it - all the stats back this up.

Tielemans is a brilliant player and we gave him time to get the ball down and shoot from the edge of the box.

Like how v Wolves, we gave Moutinho the time and space to bring the ball down and lob a pass to the back post.

See similarly - letting JWP free in the box then giving him a FK right on the edge of the box.

If you give good players opportunities to punish you, they will do.

We have thick, bad players. We had a manager unable to mitigate against it, unfortunately.

And our owner reckons Marcelo Bielsa is gonna sort it out.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Maybe they have a new manager lined up already and they are going to do a triple announcement.... lol lollollollol

You’re new, aren’t you?

 

[MikeH72]

Maybe they have a new manager lined up already and they are going to do a triple announcement.... lol lollollollol

I like this world you live in where we’ve replaced every single person at the club with someone competent.

 

[ProZ]

Can't believe we have sacked him after that Palace game

 

[allen]

Genuinely gutted it’s gone this badly.

That night against Palace was special. It felt like a proper bond was forged that evening.

 

[blue to the bone]

I still am not sure the new manager is going to find this as easy as some people think. There are no foundations at this club for any manager to achieve even the smallest levels of success.

I have a lot of sympathy - I think the recruitment in the summer cost him his job.

The next manager will also struggle.
No doubt. But any manager who loses that many games will loose their job .

 

[Milk]

Why do young, English managers fail in the PL?

Was hoping that FL would have brought some stability

 

[ToffeeTim]

Genuinely gutted it’s gone this badly.

That night against Palace was special. It felt like a proper bond was forged that evening.

I wasn't there, but I was at the Newcastle game, and it was probably my best ever experience at Goodison. I felt like things were gradually going to move in the right direction.

 

[allen]

I wasn't there, but I was at the Newcastle game, and it was probably my best ever experience at Goodison. I felt like things were gradually going to move in the right direction.

We didn’t want a lot from this season, that’s the worst bit for me. Just signs of improvement.

I thought it was there early on, but it was just a mirage.

I’d say it’s probably the end for him as a serious managerial candidate now, but it didn’t stop Martinez or Koeman from failing upwards, so good luck to the guy!

 

[ToffeePaulie]

Genuinely gutted it’s gone this badly.

That night against Palace was special. It felt like a proper bond was forged that evening.

Another club would have built on it, but we're Everton F.C.

 

[joebocop]

For a manager with such a bad record, I really feel no ill will towards him. I do generally think he did a good job at the end of last year to stop the freefall we were in with Benitez. The problem is he's the one accountable for a similar if not worse freefall this year.

 

[ToffeePaulie]

It's a joke. We are run like a conference team and that's being kind.