Everton struggles baffle Louis Saha, ‘I’m completely at a loss’
Things are looking incredibly precarious for Everton at the moment as the Toffees sit 17th in the Premier League, one point above the drop zone.
Sacking Rafael Benitez in January and bringing in Frank Lampard has done little to change the fortunes of the Blues and the relegation fears are increasing by the game.
Their latest defeat, a 5-0 thumping away at Tottenham Hotspur, was perhaps the worst under Lampard’s management and former Everton striker Louis Saha can’t understand why this poor season has unravelled.
“I have no idea. I don’t understand this club,” Saha said, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo.
“They have so much potential, a good squad, they had a spell with Carlo Ancelotti which didn’t quite work out and I don’t get it.
“They have everything to be a great team. We’ve seen Leicester win the league so why not Everton?
“They should be much higher up in the league, they’ve made some great additions, they’ve got a fantastic academy, the structure of the club is amazing so I’m completely at a loss.”
Grind it out
Lampard will have come to Goodison Park with the hopes and plans of playing a very attacking brand of football but we still haven’t seen any of it.
What the football club really needs now is to properly dig in and grind out some results, just like their fellow strugglers have started to manage in recent weeks.
Most notably Burnley who have crept up to be just one point behind the Toffees with games in hand.
It won’t be pretty or the football any Everton fan may desire but that is of very low importance right now, all they need is results.
Lampard might not have been the ideal manager to bring in to do that in hindsight but there were very few options in the way of old-school fight when they decided to give Benitez the boot.
Things are not going to plan right now but they still have every chance to get themselves out of trouble if they can start finding points in roundabout ways.
In other Everton news, a reliable journalist has rubbished claims that the club were set to lose £300million as a result of severing ties with Alisher Usmanov.
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