Sky Sports pundit launches scathing attack on Everton board as attack issues laid bare
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Kevin Campbell is sick of how Everton are being run as the transfer window failures have left the club “asking for trouble” in the Premier League.
Farhad Moshiri sacked his manager in the middle of the January window for the second season in a row and failed to sign a single player before the deadline, with Sean Dyche only announced as Frank Lampard’s replacement the day before (30 January).
Sky Sports pundit Campbell has hit out at the stewardship of the club, claiming “it’s not right”, as the Toffees drew a blank in a winnable game against Aston Villa on Saturday (25 February).
Speaking exclusively to Goodison News he said of the window: “Quite badly? Don’t get me started on that. It’s poor stewardship from the club.
“It took so long to get the manager in, by the time you do the club’s in turmoil, so that’s why you’ve got to move quickly.
“You get right into the last knockings of the transfer window and then nobody wants to come.
“Players that were destined to when Frank Lampard was there, he leaves then all of a sudden those players go elsewhere.
“You’re asking for trouble.
“Then Sean Dyche comes in and one thing I will say is he’s never worked with this quality of player before.
“But I can tell you this, he’s had good forwards. At Burnley for instance they’ve had good players, good strikers in tandem. Danny Ings, Chris Wood and so on.
“They’ve had some really, really good players, so I think that’s the only part of the team that isn’t quite there at the moment.
“And that’s why they will sneak a 1-0 but the firepower is the problem, and that’s what needed to be addressed.
“But it wasn’t. So everybody turns round and looks at the board.
“You look at them and what’s going on at Everton. It’s not right.
“Whether people get upset about it or not, what’s going on at the football club isn’t right.”
Dyche has managed to lift these players to a pair of crucial wins in his four games in charge, and the backing of the home fans will once again play a huge part in the relegation battle.
But it doesn’t take a genius to work out that a squad which is repeatedly reduced in attacking capability is going to struggle more and more.
Richarlison arguably dragged Everton to safety last season with some key goals and yet he has never been properly replaced, and the barren January window was a shock even to Toffees fans who grown to expect very little from the club’s hierarchy.
If Dyche keeps the club up at the end of the season it will be very much in spite of not because of the board’s role in things.