Leon Osman worried over ‘disillusioned’ fans at Everton, backs board
The current situation at Everton has been the main vent of frustration for supporters and the ongoing managerial saga isn’t helping matters one bit.
The Toffees are still searching for a new manager having sacked Rafael Benitez nearly two weeks ago and the fan protests outside Goodison Park have done little to help the problems.
Leon Osman, a former Everton fan favourite, has voiced his concern at the club’s current predicament but he insists that the board are doing all they can to succeed.
“The board are working as well as they can,” Osman said, speaking on the BBC’s Football Daily Podcast, “Everyone connected with the football club is trying to succeed.
“Bill Kenwright, Farhad Moshiri, all the board are working tirelessly to make the club a success.
“It’s a club that’s lost its way, I don’t think there’s any other way of describing us at the moment.
“We’ve lost managers and we’ve lost directors of football. Now we’re losing the fans as well they’re disillusioned with the way the club is at the moment.
“There’s a real frustration within Everton at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be a general thought.
“The players (signed under Moshiri) are so different in character and ability that they’re not able to help each other and they’re not helping the club pull in the direction they want to.”
Must not panic
The next couple of moves the board make could be defining for their time at Goodison Park and they cannot afford to panic.
A snap decision without thought on the next Toffees manager will almost certainly end in disaster at which point the fans will go even further against Moshiri and Kenwright.
But as Osman said, they are trying everything to turn things around but it just isn’t working right now.
Maybe they should have had a new manager lined up before sending Benitez packing and they could have had more of an identity in mind when signing players.
But other clubs have similar issues and Everton need to learn what they can from them before they find themselves in the second tier.
They perhaps should look at how Watford were able to sack their manager a week later than Benitez was dismissed and they already have a new man at the helm before their next game has arrived.
Everton also need the new man in before Monday’s January transfer deadline or this season could be a rocky one for the Toffees.
In other Everton news, this box-to-box midfielder has been linked with a move to Goodison Park.