Posted in another thread. I cant deny it. I get a bit jealous watching a team like brighton. And we're talking brighton here. Not some major club. Go away to places like arsenal spurs and most good sides in this league and hold their own. We play and we look like we're hanging on for dear life from the first few minutes in so many of them. And what i see is a brighton midfield who dont give the ball away. Who control that part of the pitch with as much success as the opposition.
Then i watch Evertons midfield and im in tears
Style isn't everything, but it goes a long way towards breeding optimism.
At least Potter and Vieira have shown that it doesn't take five years and a small nation's GDP to be able to knock the ball around a bit. If I was a Palace fan coming away from that game on Thursday, I'd be thinking that if this is what we can produce with Will Hughes pulling the strings (a decent player, but basically just an Osman or Joe Allen), imagine what this manager could do with proper backing.
To me, what Everton lack most is a will to fundamentally change off the pitch. The club showed with Rodriguez that there's always a way to get shut of a player, and I don't believe for one second that enough has been done to shift the high earners that have been crippling us for years now, which is perhaps why we ended up sleepwalking into a relegation fight.
I don't really know how good or bad Lampard is yet, but I can say for certain that unless there's a commitment to overhauling our approach to recruitment (both ins and outs), we'll be reading threads dedicated to whether or not he should still be in the job before the end of this calendar year, and a big part of that will be because the football is as desperate as the league position.
