There was an inevitability about Frank Lampard getting sacked by Everton, but his future direction is not quite so clear. twoht
Date published: Tuesday 24th January 2023 11:58 -
to become the next name Farhad Moshiri pulls from his hat marked ‘managers I have heard of’. But what next for Lampard himself? Because the trajectory that his managerial career path has taken has been so unusual that establishing what he might do next isn’t straightforward. And then there’s Everton. Frank Lampard lasted 357 days as the manager of the Grand Old Team. They were 16th in the Premier League when he was appointed and it seems highly likely that the club’s mission statement for the second half of last season was little more than, ‘Please for the love of God keep us in the Premier League, we Well, mission accomplished, kind of.
The fact remains that after almost exactly a calendar year in the job Lampard leaves Everton with the club in 19th place in the Premier League, with a points per game average for this season that would leave them on 29 after 38 games. It’s relegation form, and the fact that there are plenty of others on a similar sort of trajectory doesn’t diminish what a poor return that is.
But that sheer heft also creates issues. Big names are polarising these days, and whichever club were to take a gamble on him would stand accused of being starstruck, and all the more so were things to not work out again. Lampard’s appointment at Derby was explicable; everyone has to start somewhere, and there had been talk for years of how his ascent into the upper echelons of the managerial market would be something approaching inevitable.
Cheap laughs aside, the parallels with the managerial career of Steven Gerrard are striking: two players with 220 England caps between them parachuted into the Premier League after brief apprenticeships, who the football establishment desperately wanted to succeed, both ended up out of their depths at historically big clubs who’ve undergone degrees of trauma in recent years.
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