Sacking Lampard was the right decision, but Everton’s woes don’t end there

Barney Ronay turns his lyrical talents to the malaise at Everton, writing that the arguments for sacking the manager and the board could co-exist; thag getting rid of the manager doesn't not solve the larger problem.

"The real problem is simply that Moshiri and his board are extremely bad at running a football club. Incoherent ambition has been the key flaw. Here is a club that has somehow managed to run out of gas while operating in the most jazzed and hyped and cash-drenched sporting league ever devised, a collapse that has its roots in four years of laughably scattergun spending.

"The 2021 “masterplan” brought a new austerity, Lampard as head coach and a continued downward spiral. It was reported in the summer Moshiri was willing to sell the club if a buyer meets his inflated price. What will he leave behind? Debts, incoherence and a club that never asked to be treated as an experiment in extravagant overspend, that never demanded success at all costs, and where the unrest of the past few months has felt like a protest against the strangeness of modern football, the disenfranchisement of supporters as these cherished community assets become avatars of investor ambition and the whims of another semi-competent billionaire.

"Everton have enough quality players to escape relegation under a more competent manager. The deeper questions are unlikely to be answered by the current ownership."

» Read the full article at The Guardian

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