Alex Iwobi who is one of the instrumental Everton midfielders has stressed the need for Everton to remain consistent as they look to battle out of relegation admitting that the whole squad as much as the fans who deserve better.
Everton sacked Frank Lampard after strings of woeful results which has condemned them to the bottom of the table as they look to salvage the season before it’s too late.
The Toffees then appointed former Burnley’s manager, Sean Dyche who won his first game in charge at home against league leaders, Arsenal, stamping his authority on how the club needs to play.
In an attempt to get to the bottom of Everton’s troubles, Dyche did two things immediately after succeeding Frank Lampard last month.
The first was a bleep test to gauge physical fitness, the second a questionnaire to gauge the squad’s outlook and morale.
Dyche did not ask for names to be written on the papers he handed out, all he wanted was an insight into why a group of talented footballers had lost their way so badly that the spectre of relegation had emerged to haunt them once more.
“Holding a pen and you are not signing a shirt — that felt weird!’ says Iwobi but it was good,” Alex Iwobi said in the interview culled from Dailymail UK.
“He wanted to know what we thought as players. You didn’t have to put your name on it and it could be as brutally honest as you wanted.”
“If you wanted to cuss him, you could cuss him but no one did that.”
“Everyone kept it respectful. We were asked: what do you think of the team? What can we do to help the team go forward? How do you rate your motivation? The team’s motivation?”
“I will reveal my answers. I said the team, of course, wasn’t in a good head space but we all had the same goal. We all want to push up the table.”
“When he looked at the summary, the majority said they wanted the team to push forward. He has to understand his players and I feel he knows what he has got and we know what we have got to do. We are able to do what is required.”
In Dyche’s words, the ‘Big Brother cameras’ are on around Finch Farm, meaning everyone is on their best behaviour after the club’s seventh change of manager in seven years.
There have been no complaints from players about snoods and hats being banned or the intensity of the running that is required in training.
Nor should there be. Iwobi, who is now on to his fifth Everton manager, understands better than anyone why a period of stability is required and how much bridge-building needs to be done with fans who have become weary and disenchanted,” Dailymail UK reports.
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