Frank Lampard has one phone call he must make now he's Everton manager

Frank Lampard didn't want his view of the Everton players to be influenced by anything other than what he saw.

In the recent games he's watched studiously or, from Monday, when he took training for the first time, the 43-year-old only wanted to make his own mind, and not have others do it for him.

It's why, he says, he didn't call Carlo Ancelotti as he was in the process of being appointed. It's why, Lampard also confirmed, he hasn't spoken to Rafa Benitez.

It's a totally sensible way to have approached the early days of his Everton tenure but, as he says, he will put in a call to his old boss, Ancelotti, and pick his brains.

It wouldn't be a bad idea, either, to talk to Benitez. Or to Marco Silva or to Sam Allardyce or even to Ronald Koeman. They know too well what it's like to manage in the Everton pressure-cooker and not come out in one piece.

Roberto Martinez was the first manager to be sacked by Farhad Moshiri, of course, and could provide some worthwhile perspective on being in the top job at Goodison, as well.

If Lampard talked to all six of those managers, he would be armed with plenty of useful information.

But there's a different manager who he should be aiming to speak to first, and above all of those others mention.

Frank, don't call Carlo - phone David Moyes.

The new Everton manager used his first press conference as boss, this week, to talk about how he remembered the great Blues' sides of the 80s but when asked about how he wants his team to play, it was from the modern era where he's taking his inspiration. From the days when he faced Everton as a player.

And the bulk of that time was up against Moyes' Blues.

Lampard said he understood that there are 'fundamentals' to the way any Everton side should