Joe Ellis

Thu 6 October 2022 11:10, UK

Sam Allardyce helped keep Everton in the Premier League in the 2017-18 season but he was not kept on beyond the conclusion of the campaign.

Marco Silva came in to take the hot seat but was sacked in 2019 with Carlo Ancelotti, Rafael Benitez and now Frank Lampard taking over since.

Allardyce, 67, still feels, however, that he should have remained in charge of the Toffees going into the 2018-19 season so he could sign players to play better football.

“It’s one of those things isn’t it,” Allardyce said on Kammy and Ben’s Proper Football podcast. “I thought I never should have left Everton.

“We finished eighth in my short period of time when I took over in November and they were 16th or 17th and we worked our way out of the trouble and into eighth position.

“People were going on and always have gone on about me and my style of football but it was all about putting Everton in the right position and then changing the player for a better style.

“They’ve since gone on to spend a lot of money and it hasn’t got much better and unfortunately for Everton and for Farhad Moshiri, it hasn’t gone at all well.”

Ancient

Football is at the stage where dinosaurs like Allardyce would not survive at all because the way teams are able to effectively press would be too much for his route one style.

The players would need to be so perfect to his system to make it work in any sense of the word that the chances of such a squad existing nowadays are slim to none.

He doesn’t know any other way either so he can claim that he was ready to play more attractive football the following season but you just know that he would have resorted back to hoof ball as soon as he could.

It may have taken longer than Moshiri wanted but Everton now have a very good manager who plays good football in Lampard who can take the club into the 21st century.

If relegation becomes a problem again, then give ‘Big Sam’ a call but there isn’t an Evertonian alive who would prefer him to Lampard.