Bill Kenwright declared Everton’s form under Rafa Benitez as “unacceptably disappointing”.
The Blues chairman said the club had been forced to make top-level changes over the past year and named Benitez’s departure among them. He also praised the ambition of his replacement Frank Lampard, telling him: “All Evertonians wish you well, Frank”.
Kenwright’s comments came in the introduction to Everton’s 2020/21 accounts, released on Tuesday evening. He used the platform to pay tribute to ‘Goodison’s great gentlemen’ - Jimmy Gabriel, Walter Smith and Gordon Lee, club heroes who have died over the past year, while also offering his condolences to the friends and family of Andrew Devine. Mr Devine died last year as a result of injuries suffered in the Hillsborough tragedy.
