Sky Sports pundit 100% concerned Farhad Moshiri’s broken Everton promise will come back to bite them
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The failure to sign any attacking players in January could “100%” come back to bite Everton over the final weeks of the season, says Kevin Campbell.
The Toffees were linked with numerous attacking reinforcements in the winter window but didn’t sign a single player throughout the month, despite Anthony Gordon leaving to Newcastle and Farhad Moshiri promising prior to the window a striker would be brought in.
Now, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s latest injury issue keeping him out Sky Sports pundit Campbell is increasingly worried about where goals will come from, with home form and the defence put under big pressure by the lack of attacking output.
Asked if he was worried the January failure will come back to bite Everton the former Toffees captain exclusively told Goodison News: “Of course. 100%.
“Of course that could come back. Dominic Calvert-Lewin doesn’t seem to be able to keep himself fit. That’s been the problem for what? Two seasons now?
“That’s a big worry. Because you lose Richarlison who kind of put the club on his shoulders.
“He was in double figures, in a struggling season. If you add double figures to this Everton side they are mid-table.
“That is the issue. When you’re not scoring goals you’re in trouble. The defence has to be perfect. They have to keep clean sheets and then nick a goal.
“You can do that a home because you’ve got the home crowd with you. Away from home it’s a lot harder.”
You don’t have to be a genius to work out that if you steadily remove the sources of goals from your team you will struggle to continue scoring.
Low and behold, with Richarlison, Gordon, and frequently Calvert-Lewin, not in the side it is now a slog, with the 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest an outlier in that Everton actually scored more than once away from home (5 March).
For all Sean Dyche put on a brave face in his first press conference and backed those behind the scenes for working hard to try to sign players, the bottom line is that a systematic weakening of the forward options has left Premier League survival in doubt once more and given the new manager an unenviable task.