Simon Jordan blasts Frank Lampard and Everton board after what Farhad Moshiri said
Simon Jordan has taken a huge swipe at Frank Lampard and the Everton board, following Farhad Moshiri’s talkSPORT interview live on-air.
In an interview with Jim White live on the show [12 January], Moshiri took an unexpected swipe at the Everton fans, stating that many of his managerial appointments were “driven” by the supporters.
The club’s majority shareholder also reiterated his backing for Lampard, in what’s been yet another campaign of underachievement for the Toffees, where they currently sit in the relegation places in the Premier League after 18 games.
Moshiri has certainly come under fire over the past week with an open letter [11 January] to the owner, expressing their frustration and displeasure at how the club is being run.
And Jordan speaking to Jim White on talkSPORT on 12 January, following Moshiri’s comments was asked whether he had any sympathy for the Toffees chief: “Of course I do. Because the argument being advanced is that the best owners are the ones that put their hands in their pockets and no one can doubt the fact that he put his, you know, money where his mouth is. But that’s great!
“But you’ve spent half a billion quid of your money to waste everybody’s time including yours and to degrade the football club that you’re in. Now we can all turn around and say I put my best foot forward, I put up a good fight well a good fight isn’t one you turn up to, it’s one you win!
“And Everton are fourth or third from bottom in the Premier League, they’ve got a sub-standard playing squad. I don’t think they’ve got the most progressive forward-thinking board and I don’t think they’ve got a coach capable of taking Everton anywhere near in the minds-eye of the Everton fans they’d like to be.”
Huge task
It’s certainly a perilous and difficult time to be an Everton fan right now, with all that’s going on and being said surrounding the current state of the club. And Moshiri is certainly the man to blame for the mess and major underachievement that’s been associated with the club over the past decade.
As many can agree with that assessment, much of the scrutiny will, unfortunately, be on Lampard’s head, whether he receives the backing he needs or not.
At the end of the day, he’s the manager, at one of the biggest and most historic clubs in the country so the pressure comes with the job title.
And Jordan is well within his rights to state his case on whether the former Derby County and Chelsea boss is the right man to drag the club out of the mess it finds itself in currently.
His managerial CV doesn’t do much in his favour too, and considering the club’s increasingly difficult plight, it is a huge task for Lampard to turn things around. Will his managerial qualities be determined by the mess he’s surrounded with at Everton?
Some may argue for and against it, but what is certain is that the Toffees board have not given him the ideal environment and room to work his magic.
The same can be said for previous managers also, and it is why Lampard may well become yet another victim of Moshiri’s incompetence as the club’s majority shareholder.