Lampard’s first 3 Key Objectives at Everton
By Rob Fisher
Lampard has been working hard this week to get coaching team on board
2. Lampard’s Coaching Staff
Frank Lampard is believed to have cancelled a family holiday to put himself as a key contender for the Everton manager position. While an extended process has taken place Lampard has been busy assembling his coaching staff if, and now it seems when, he got the job.
Lampard is very well respected in the wider football community and had assembled a good coaching team at Chelsea for his manager spell there.
So much so that one such coach, and a former Everton youth trainee, Anthony Barry was kept on the Chelsea coaching staff by Thomas Tuchel after Lampard got sacked. Barry has been credited with gaining more goals-for through set pieces, his analysis helping Chelsea to a very successful second half of the season.
Barry and England’s Assistant Coach Steve Holland have been strongly linked with roles in Lampard’s Everton coaching set up.
If Lampard has discussed this with these two respected coaches and they have in principle agreed, they will be great assets for Everton to help get themselves more organised and pull away from the relegation zone. Holland has been credited with organising England’s tactics in the last two tournaments under Gareth Southgate.
One question that has to be answered is who will be Lampard’s Assistant Manager? Will Duncan Ferguson stay on again?
Rumours are that Jody Morris who was Lampard’s right hand man when in charge of both Derby and Chelsea will not join him at Everton.
Morris scored the goal which guaranteed Everton’s safety on the last day of the 1997/98 season when he scored the 2nd goal for Chelsea in a 2-0 win over relegation rivals Bolton Wanderers meaning Everton’s nerve jangling point versus Coventry was enough.
With Rafa Benitez’s backroom staff having all followed the Spaniard out of the door, Lampard has a key job to get his coaching staff right. By the sound of it he already knew this and has been working extremely hard behind the scenes to get this organised.