Everton should take punt on Frank Lampard - at least fans won't call for sack immediately

If nothing else, Everton have given Vitor Pereira a claim to fame.

He must be the only manager to complain about fans wanting him to get the sack before he has even been hired.

Talk about getting off to a flyer.

But if you conduct your business through the super-agent channels in Mayfair, then word gets out.

If Farhad Moshiri had wanted Pereira as his sixth new permanent manager, he should have just done it.

Done it before anyone had a clue Pereira’s appointment was a possibility.

Surely it now has to be a non-starter.

Moshiri has not covered himself in ownership glory over these past few months.

There was the always-doomed appointment of Rafa Benitez, the sacking of the club’s technical director (presumably at Rafa’s behest), the sale of one of the team’s best players in Lucas Digne.

Hence, Moshiri has come in for some serious criticism.

But let’s get it right.

If an owner had stepped up in 2016 and said he was going to spend half a billion pounds on players, recruit managers of the repute of, say, Carlo Ancelotti and Ronald Koeman, and start work on a move to a state-of-the-art stadium, fans would have been salivating at the prospect.

Indeed, they were salivating at the prospect. And Moshiri has done those things.

But the problem has been the managers have not lived up to expectations and the recruitment of players has turned out to be quite significantly poor. Simple.

The board, including chairman Bill Kenwright, have to take responsibility for that and that is why it is understandable supporters want the hierarchy to be changed.

Manchester City made the template for modern success when they appointed Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain.

Those two might not bleed sky blue blood - as Kenwright bleeds royal blue blood