Frank Lampard has reiterated that Everton remain in the hunt for a new striker but insisted that there was no “desperation” in their search. Dominic Calvert-Lewin picked up what Lampard described as a “freak injury” on the eve of their first game of the season and has been ruled out for approximately six weeks and for the past couple of games, winger Anthony Gordon has been deployed as a makeshift centre-forward.
Asked how he could allay fans’ fears some seven weeks after Richarlison’s exit that a new frontman had not been signed, Lampard said: “Firstly we’ve got one of England’s main centre-forwards in our squad that got injured three days before the Chelsea game. So I think those weeks after Richarlison are not that valid.
“We had to look at different areas of the team that we needed to strengthen, it wasn’t just that and nobody saw the Dominic injury coming and we have Salomon Rondon who was suspended for the first game now available. The forward areas are definitely an area of the pitch that we do want to strengthen and we have to make sure if we do strengthen, it’s the right player at the right time to improve the squad. There’s a lot of clubs in similar situations and we’re one of those.”
