There was an inevitability about Frank Lampard getting sacked by Everton, but his future direction is not quite so clear...
The news came through in dribs and drabs. In the morning, the social media gossip circle began to suggest that Frank Lampard had been sacked as Everton manager. In the afternoon, media accounts started reporting it as fact. But it took Everton until 8.15 in the evening to finally put release a message confirming it themselves.
There are two interpretations of Frank Lampard’s managerial career. In the kinder version, he took Derby County to a play-off final, Chelsea into the Champions League under a transfer embargo, and steered Everton clear of relegation at the end of last season. At no point in his managerial career has Frank Lampard done anything catastrophically bad.
And while there is a case for saying that his time at Goodison Park has been spent operating with one arm tied behind his back, this.
But while the sheer heft of his name suggests that he might not have to wait too long to find gainful employment elsewhere, the question of where that might be is a different matter altogether. What has been unique about Frank Lampard’s managerial career has been the unique positions in which he found himself in all three jobs.
Much of that initial goodwill has gone now. After 185 games as a manager spread across three clubs Lampard’s overall win rate is 43.2%, but more than half of his career wins have come at Chelsea, where such a performance level would be the bare minimum. After three full-time positions in the game he is no longer a callow youth with lessons to learn and potential to demonstrate. At 44 years old, the stabilisers have been off for some time and he has to start delivering.
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