I’m sorry but I wouldn’t fancy Lampard bringing you back. People buy in to his pundits PR team.
He took over a derby side that had finished 6th the previous year and lost in the playoff semi
Then brought in mason Mount, Harry Wilson, martyn waghorn, tomori and jouzefoun.
He scraped into the playoffs and yes they did beat us but of those 4 games in total lampard had the better of us in a 20 minute period where Leeds we’ll and bottled it 5 minutes before half time and the 15 minutes after half time. But he got the win so well done but that derby side shouldn’t have been scraping into the playoffs they should have been challenging for the league as shown by the amount the they were blowing in wages and fees in that league and now they are in the [Poor language removed] they’re in.
Everton’s situation reminds me so much of ours in 2004 the spirit in the club had gone the club was in disarray players that should have been better not performing and everything just heading in 1 direction.
Our financial situation was [Poor language removed] we had to fire sale players like viduka, smith, Milner, Matteo, Robinson, many more.
We filled the team with journey man and finished mid table, got to the playoff final they next year but then sunk to league one the next and never recovered. Which allowed chancers to take over that were even worse.
Villa were lucky to get up when they did in the 3rd season or they’d have been stuck with no parachute payments having to sell players to keep within FFP
If you’re relegated and the malaise is still around the club come next summer it could get worse see sunderland