Frank Lampard clings on at Everton amid announcement speculation
Everton are not expected to announce the sacking, or otherwise, of Frank Lampard before the end of Sunday, according to Alan Myers.
Following the latest damaging defeat to a relegation rival at the London Stadium on Saturday (21 January) the wheels are reportedly turning behind the scenes at the club to address an increasingly dire situation.
The club went bottom of the Premier League, until Ollie Watkins scored for Aston Villa against Southampton, with owner Farhad Moshiri in attendance for the first time in over a year and the expectation from sources is now that the manager will be sacked by Monday at the latest [Telegraph, 22 January], but it looks like Lampard will get the night before anything is made public.
Posting on Twitter on Sunday evening (22 January) Sky Sports man Myers wrote: “Not expecting any announcements tonight.”
Stay of execution?
All the signals are that it is just a matter of time before Lampard becomes the latest former Everton boss, but it looks like it will be the start of the new week before that happens.
There remains the possibility that having had the remainder of the weekend to stew over the decision Moshiri decides to stick with the man he publicly backed on talkSPORT on 12 January.
He has kept the former Chelsea boss despite losses to both Wolves (26 December) and Southampton (14 January) when each were bottom at the time.
But after the relationship between the fans and the board deteriorated even further amid all of them staying away from that latter match at Goodison Park amid suggestions their safety was at risk, the owner joined Bill Kenwright, Denise Barrett-Baxendale and Graeme Sharp at West Ham.
Seeing the struggles on the pitch in person has apparently made all the difference if the reports suggesting that he is now going to sack Lampard with just days of the transfer window left are accurate.
If it happens then fans will have to hope that a solid replacement is lined up fast, but based on the build up to the current manager’s appointment a year ago confidence won’t be sky high for that.