Frank Lampard compares transfer windows at Everton to the \u2018Wild West\u2019 Stick to Football podcast.Frank Lampard has described Everton\u2019s approach to the January transfer window when he was manager as the \u2018Wild West.\u2019 Chelsea legend Lampard was in charge of Everton for just under a year between January 2022 and January 2023 in a largely unsuccessful tenure. Although the former midfielder did keep the struggling Toffees in the Premier League in the 2021\/22 season, he was eventually sacked with them sat down in 19th place on just 15 points last term. Now Lampard has revealed how chaotic the transfer window was at his old club. Transfer windows would scupper Everton\u2019s \u2018football plan\u2019 Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, Lampard said: \u201cWe got to the point where we were struggling for results come January, after the World Cup. \u201cOne of the problems I found at Everton was that we were trying to work a football plan \u2013 Kevin Thelwell came in as Sporting Director and Denise [Barrett-Baxendale] was the football plan recruitment \u2013 we were working towards it, but the minute January came, it was like the Wild West. Topic starts at 7:05 \u201cAgents, and everyone, it was all about what it was going to be and who we could bring in. We were struggling to spend money because of the FFP situation, but I desperately wanted to bring in some players, and in the end after I\u2019d left, where Sean Dyche came in the back end [of the season], he couldn\u2019t make any moves anyways and Anthony Gordon left the club. \u201cThere was a lot of tension at the club through that and I think it would have been a build up over the past few years, I felt it from the minute I came in until the minute I left \u2013 it was almost like we were in a crisis but there is going to be another crisis, it was quite difficult. \u201cWe managed it when we stayed up that year, quite a lot of the plan was to build confidence and feeling and we managed to get over the line with that. But, the second season, towards the end, it was challenging. \u201cThey\u2019ve spent a lot of money on recruitment, and it hadn\u2019t been joined up and that\u2019s come to roost now where we\u2019re seeing the aftermath.\u201d Frank Lampard was speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank Lampard compares transfer windows at Everton to the \u2018Wild West\u2019 Stick to Football podcast.Frank Lampard has described Everton\u2019s approach to the January transfer window when he was manager as the \u2018Wild West.\u2019 Chelsea legend Lampard was in charge of Everton for just under a year between January 2022 and January 2023 in a largely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}