Everton 22-23: So Long Frank Lam Pard
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At least the English media will go back to calling Everton...Everton....not Frank Lampard's Everton.
The scuttle but is that Bielsa is the consensus candidate in the organization but that he is making A LOT of demands, not his own salary but bringing 100% of his own staff, acquisitions etc. and a my way or the highway attitude. Which imo is exactly what the club needs. I don’t think this squad can be adapted to play Bielsa ball in half a season so if we go this way we have to expect that we might go down, and be ok with that, with the faith that he’ll bring us right back up with an organization that’s top to bottom firing on all cylinders and have us competing for Europe. If that’s not what you want you shouldn’t go with him.
FWIW theLeeds fans 100% say we should grab him and not look back.
FWIW theLeeds fans 100% say we should grab him and not look back.
We’d have Richy back in a heartbeat and if the club had even a glimmer of competing he’d do it.
Some guy on Everton Twitter who makes custom merch, like our dirtynine, has started selling this:
View: https://twitter.com/JustDoodlinRob/status/1616541470999171084?s=20&t=VJhd72bdsOT2zLUsIw574A
Btw I understand I’m in a position of saying that a story of a woman being assaulted has been fabricated, which is ordinarily something I would have a big problem with. Here, it smells really bad. I am not saying that she was even the leaker, necessarily, but given the totality of the circumstances I think the odds that this happened in the way it was reported are low, and that this was a deflection campaign.
The Athletic contradicts the Guardian, says that Morishi did explore a sale with a US-based group last year. But that fell apart and the current focus is on bringing more investors, including increased stakes from some current partners, to support the stadium development and squad improvement.
Everton’s Identity Crisis - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Not sure about that. Sam's reputation is that he prevents relegation, hence he only gets jobs of trouble teams.
Rory Smith, what a chap
Strong possibility that we get nothing in the window.
I think if we got in Dyche sooner, we would have solidified things soon enough to spend the Gordon money well, and to be at least as attractive a destination as Southampton or Bournemouth. As it stands we're being avoided like lepers. I can't blame them either.
FWIW I think Dyche keeps us up, even if we don't get anyone in. I was very concerned about chucking out yet another manager and I thought I saw enough from Lampard that I didn't favor firing him sooner. I was wrong. Lampard has a definite managing profile after three jobs and it's not that good: on the plus side, he forges real connections with the fans and players, which helps in recruiting as well as on the pitch. He can coach up individual players. But his sides just don't have any coherence and after awhile they become easy to play through. For a GOAT or GOAT-adjacent midfielder he was awful in setting up the midfield. His task was made harder in that Idrissa Gana Gueye has lost a step, but having helped Iwobi rejuvenate his career, he then yanked him out of position and scrambled Iwobi, Gueye, and Amadou Onana (huge man and talent to match but still raw) in the least productive way possible. He seemed to have it sorted in the beginning of the season - Everton was back-to-front the better side in the derby at Goodison this year ( although it hadn't yet come clear how much the LFC midfield had dropped off) - but toward the end of his time it was intermittent pressing without coordinated line movement and forty yards of green in the middle of the pitch. Not good when you have Coady and Tarkowski as your CB, who despite their otherwise solid play cannot deal with the likes of Bowen, Mitoma, or Ward-Prowse, to name a few who have torched us recently, when they pick up the ball in the attacking third with no one within five seconds of closing them down.
Dyche will do better. It's just a shame that we have such a shitshow.
I think if we got in Dyche sooner, we would have solidified things soon enough to spend the Gordon money well, and to be at least as attractive a destination as Southampton or Bournemouth. As it stands we're being avoided like lepers. I can't blame them either.
FWIW I think Dyche keeps us up, even if we don't get anyone in. I was very concerned about chucking out yet another manager and I thought I saw enough from Lampard that I didn't favor firing him sooner. I was wrong. Lampard has a definite managing profile after three jobs and it's not that good: on the plus side, he forges real connections with the fans and players, which helps in recruiting as well as on the pitch. He can coach up individual players. But his sides just don't have any coherence and after awhile they become easy to play through. For a GOAT or GOAT-adjacent midfielder he was awful in setting up the midfield. His task was made harder in that Idrissa Gana Gueye has lost a step, but having helped Iwobi rejuvenate his career, he then yanked him out of position and scrambled Iwobi, Gueye, and Amadou Onana (huge man and talent to match but still raw) in the least productive way possible. He seemed to have it sorted in the beginning of the season - Everton was back-to-front the better side in the derby at Goodison this year ( although it hadn't yet come clear how much the LFC midfield had dropped off) - but toward the end of his time it was intermittent pressing without coordinated line movement and forty yards of green in the middle of the pitch. Not good when you have Coady and Tarkowski as your CB, who despite their otherwise solid play cannot deal with the likes of Bowen, Mitoma, or Ward-Prowse, to name a few who have torched us recently, when they pick up the ball in the attacking third with no one within five seconds of closing them down.
Dyche will do better. It's just a shame that we have such a shitshow.