I can’t fathom how Lampard wasn’t sacked after Brighton. Yeah of course realistically the ideal time to sack him was after Bournemouth, but Brighton was the night it descended fully into chaos and confirmed there was absolutely no way it could be turned around. Him surviving that game was the equivalent of Benitez surviving the derby last season, the actions of an out of touch owner that just has absolutely no grip on reality and doesn’t understand what’s unfolding in front of him. To still think it could be salvaged after that game is just criminal negligence and incompetence on a nuclear scale from the most dangerous owner in the country.
The problem, I think, is that Moshiri is learning the wrong lessons.
We’ve burned through managers too quickly, and we’ve done that because the football side of the business is totally amateurish. We have no coherent strategy. We’ve not sacked so many managers because we’ve had consistently terrible managers, but because they can’t work with the Frankenstein squad.
Instead of properly understanding the underlying cause of successive managerial failures, Moshiri has just looked at the surface-level symptom of sacking too many managers and decided he wasn’t going to do that. Almost irrespective of how badly Lampard was doing.
It’s a totally mad approach - and one he had to abandon anyway as it became untenable.
He doesn’t have the capacity to make decisions on behalf of Everton.
