Everton Football Club has confirmed that they have appointed Frank Lampard as the Club’s new manager.
In our previous publication, we hinted about the club about to announce the former Chelsea midfielder and manager as their new club manager.
Frank is taking over after the club’s former manager, Rafa Benitez, was sacked two weeks ago following his performance with one win in 14 matches.
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The former England midfielder has however agreed to a two-and-a-half-year contract that starts from now until June 2024.
Frank Lampard after professional football first got signed as the head coach for Derby County back in 2018, where he led them to the final of that season’s Championship play-offs, he also served as the manager for his former club, Chelsea, helping develop many of the club’s young talents, guided the Londoners to fourth place in the Premier League and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge.
Chelsea’s assistant coach, Joe Edwards has also left the club to join Frank Lampard at Everton FC to assist him as his Assistant Manager.
The will be supported by Paul Clement as First Team Coach and Chris Jones as First Team Coach and Head of Performance.
Frank Lampard in his speech after being appointed as Everton FC new manager said, it is a very big honour to be chosen to manage the club and its tradition, and very glad to get started
he said;
“It is a huge honour for me to represent and manage a club the size and tradition of Everton Football Club. I’m very hungry to get started. After speaking to the owner, Chairman and the Board, I very much felt their passion and ambition. I hope they felt my ambition and how hard I want to work to bring it together.
“You can feel the passion Everton fans have for their club. That will be hugely important. As a team – the competitive level that the Premier League brings and the position we are in the table – we certainly need that. It’s a two-way thing. I think Everton is a unique club in that you can really understand what the fans want to see. The first thing they want is fight and desire and that must always be our baseline.
“My first message to the players will be that we have to do this together. We’ll try to do our job and I know the fans will be there backing us.”
Watch The video of his first interview below.
Everton owner Farhad Moshiri said: “I am really delighted that Frank has joined us. He is an impressive young man on and off the pitch. He has played at the very highest level of the game and has football in his blood.
“He impressed us all greatly during the thorough interview process and we’re all ready to give him all of our support as he looks to give the team an immediate boost.”
Below reads what Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright said about having Frank join them.
“Frank impressed us greatly throughout our process, coming across as a modern, ambitious and exciting young manager. He expressed a clear vision on how he wants to take the club forward and, importantly, a tremendous passion and genuine enthusiasm to join us. I’m sure Evertonians will give him the special welcome that only they can and will be looking forward to giving him and his coaching staff a warm Goodison welcome next weekend.”
