Just not Sharp up front
Evertonians have been brought up on swashbuckling centre-forwards but there is a big hole in that area of the pitch right now and while it might sound like a broken record when banging on about it, until they remedy the situation, the point must continue to be laboured. It will no doubt be an issue not lost on Graeme Sharp, a man second only to Dixie Dean in Everton’s all-time scoring charts, now a non-executive director and Players’ Life President, who was sat next to director of football Kevin Thelwell, the man tasked with obtaining such a recruit in these final 10 days of the transfer window in Fleetwood Town’s main stand last night.
While manager Frank Lampard has pointed out that the Blues’ current incumbent of the famous number nine jersey Dominic Calvert-Lewin is a current England international and one of the best in the business – certainly aerially – when available, it seems at best naïve and at worst potentially disastrous for the club to put all their eggs in this one basket. Calvert-Lewin’s latest ‘freak’ injury as Lampard described it might not be related to the problems he suffered last season but given that fitness issues restricted the 25-year-old to just 15 Premier League starts last term, it would seem obvious that Everton required more options up front for the current campaign given that Richarlison was sold, Cenk Tosun released and both Ellis Simms and Lewis Dobbin sent out on loan.
