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IAN HERBERT: Delusions of grandeur have taken Everton to the BRINK. After splashing £500m on players with no sense or strategy, this relegation battle is a result of years of mismanagement on and off the pitch
- Farhad Moshiri has spent £500million on players with no clear sense or strategy
- Since his arrival, ailing Everton have been consumed by delusions of grandeur
- The present squad is a ‘Frankenstein composite’ and stuck in a relegation battle
- Frank Lampard is shaping up to be anything but a saviour after his dismal start
The timing of a new Dominic Calvert-Lewin fashion photoshoot for GQ magazine is unfortunate, to say the least.
The Everton striker ‘is bringing fashion back to football’, states a headline above a piece in which he declares himself a ‘standard-bearer for new flamboyance’. He hasn’t scored a goal since August.
There’s been a delusion of grandeur about the club for the six years since Farhad Moshiri arrived and started splashing £500million on players in a way which has lacked sense or strategy.
There has been a delusion of grandeur about Everton in the years since Farhad Moshiri arrived
The present squad is, as a recent When Saturday Comes analysis of their predicament put it, ‘a Frankenstein composite of eight managers and two directors of football’.
A list of some of the players signed for more than £20m since 2016 says everything about the state Everton are in: Davy Klaassen, Cenk Tosun, Theo Walcott, Yannick Bolasie, Morgan Schneiderlin, Alex Iwobi, Andre Gomes, Jean-Philippe Gbamin and Moise Kean.
On Wednesday, Everton will feel the consequences of that gross mismanagement like never before. They run out at Burnley in a game on which their Premier League survival could depend.
The present squad has…
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Source : dailymail
