Everton assistant manager outlines plan to turn Blues into 'exciting team'

New Everton assistant manager Joe Edwards has explained how he and Frank Lampard want to instil a winning mentality at the club and reckons the way they want to play sits well with fans at Goodison Park.

Edwards held the same post under Lampard at Chelsea having previously worked with the west London club’s junior teams and retained the position under Thomas Tuchel before his former boss brought him to Merseyside.

Giving his first interview since joining the Blues, Edwards spelled out how he expects the players to become winners by telling evertontv: “I think that it starts from the work that you do day to day.

“You talk about mine and Frank’s background, him as a player, when you talk about success, you’re referring to a lot of trophies.

“At the level that I’ve worked at, it’s all relative, when you’re in the Academy there’s a lot of success where people would summarise this success based upon Youth Cup trophies and stuff like that.

“We’re not expecting to walk into a club and all of a sudden start winning silverware instantly but at the same time the standards that you set for all of the staff around the building, all of the players on a daily basis, to think like that, the way that winners do every day and push yourself, that’s the only chance you’ve got of getting anywhere near those levels over a long period.

“We just hope very quickly those improvements will lead to progress in the short term.”

When asked if the style of play he and Lampard want to adopt sits well with what Goodison desires, the 35-year-old said: “Definitely. Particularly when we haven’t got the ball, Frank and I want the team to press high up the pitch with aggression, we want to win the ball in the opposition half, be as far away from our