Everton Football Club have appointed Frank Lampard as the Club’s new manager.
Gatekeepers News reports that Everton on Monday confirmed Frank Lampard as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
The former England midfielder who agreed to the contract which end in June 2024, will take charge of the First Team for the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Brentford at Goodison Park on Saturday, February 5.
His appointment follows a robust recruitment process with several candidates being interviewed by the Club’s majority shareholder and Board of Directors.
The Club in a statement said, “The new Everton manager will be supported by a vastly experienced and talented backroom team made up of Joe Edwards as his Assistant Manager, Paul Clement as First Team Coach and Chris Jones as First Team Coach and Head of Performance.”
In reaction to his appointment, Lampard 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.”
In 2018, Lampard started management with Derby County, leading the Rams to the final of that season’s Championship play-offs.
He was later appointed head coach at his former club Chelsea the following year and, helped develop many of the club’s young talents by guiding the Londoners to fourth place in the Premier League and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge.
