Everton boss Frank Lampard insists he’s happy with his attacking options.
Ahead of today’s derby with Liverpool, Lampard was pushed on whether he felt his side were a forward light, with some fans raising concerns that the Blues needed to add more attacking options to their squad ahead of Thursday’s 11pm deadline.
But Lampard responded to the question by saying: “We have got Salomon Rondon as a centre-forward and we have got our wingers, who give us different options on both sides and Alex Iwobi can play in any position on the pitch.
“But I think we have to be careful here to bring in someone for the sake of bringing them in, and now we have a short period before the window opens again because of the World Cup.
“I am very happy with what we have got and the squad is strong and as I say, Dominic is back next week.
“I don’t think there are too many teams in the Premier League who tend to play one up front as a reference who tend to stack up strikers. It is not easy to manage at the same time.
“But at the same time we are always looking at how we can improve and how it will improve us on a broad scale. Is the player going to develop with us? Or make an instinct impact with us now. So we took a very considered view on it and I am happy.”
Before he continued: “I think people are drawn to the striker situation and as I said just then, I didn’t have Dominic a lot last season, so Dominic for me feels like a new signing as well.
“When I and we look at how we can improve the team we hopefully won’t be in the position we were in last year and moving forward we can get better and better.
“To isolate and just look at the striker for us wasn’t the way to look at it. It was how can we strengthen the team throughout.
“Richarlison leaving the club, he was a big player for us at the top end of the pitch, lets just look at that and try and replace that, we have to look at the collective.
“So it was important for us to try to strengthen throughout. Games can be one or lost defensively, at the back of the pitch, in the middle of the pitch.
“I’m very happy and I’ve got lots of options up front. Too many options can leave people sitting and not playing and that is not great for the squad either.”
