Your Everton evening headlines for Sunday, November 27.
Frank Lampard explains Everton transfer 'priority'
Everton have a list of players drawn up to target during the January transfer window.
Strengthening Frank Lampard’s attacking options is the priority, with the club exploring the potential to sign more than one forward player. Lampard told the ECHO preparations for the window had been ongoing for some time, though there is an understanding the World Cup will further complicate a notoriously difficult time for business.
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Everton are not in a position to spend without conscience, however, and finding improvements within the existing squad will be crucial to making progress this season. The belief at Finch Farm is this is a side in transition and that developing tactics and integrating summer signings, many of whom arrived well into this season, is essential to moving forward. There is confidence this will happen.
Speaking with the ECHO in Australia, during the club's involvement in the Sydney Super Cup this week, Lampard accepted growing pains were visible during the 15 games of the Premier League campaign so far. But he believes this is an inevitable part of the pathway to improve from a side that narrowly avoided relegation and is unable to spend its way up the table.
Read Joe Thomas' exclusive chat with Frank Lampard here.
Amadou Onana learns harsh World Cup lesson
Everton’s Amadou Onana has come a long way in a short space of time and 21-year-old’s steep learning curve continued in Belgium’s 2-0 defeat to Morocco as he picked up a second yellow card of the World Cup which will leave him suspended for their final group game with Croatia.
Having impressed as a half-time substitute in what was otherwise a largely underwhelming 1-0 victory over Canada with Nieuwsblad back in him homeland proclaiming “what a power”, the Blues midfielder was handed a start in central midfield against the North Africans for what was only his fourth cap to date.
It was a bold move from Belgium’s former Everton manager Roberto Martinez as he brought the international rookie into the engine room at the expense of Leicester City’s Youri Tielemans, a far more experienced performer at this level with 56 appearances for the Red Devils and five international goals. When the pair went head to head at Goodison Park on Bonfire Night, the older man clearly had the edge, opening the scoring with a magnificently-struck effort in front of the Gwladys Street in first half stoppage time while the youngster was forced off through injury just after the hour mark but while the pair occupy the same area of the pitch, they offer rather different qualities.
Read the full story from Chris Beesley here.
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