Everton boss Frank Lampard has stressed that managers need “time to work” after it was announced that Aston Villa have sacked Steven Gerrard.
Gerrard was sacked on Thursday night after around a year in charge. His last game as manager was Villa’s 3-0 loss against Fulham.
Lampard has described Gerrard as someone he has “a huge amount of respect for as a player, a person, a manager, a coach”, and “a very tough lad”.
And he said: “We all understand the jeopardy of the job we work in, and there are a lot of pluses to it, huge pluses. But as a coach in the modern day, you need time to work, circumstances to work.
“We’ve all got responsibilities, we’ve got to try to get results. But sometimes time isn’t afforded in the modern day.
“To go through the patches, to try to get growth, to try to get to where you want to, there’s always something in the road that catches you and moments and periods, and you have to give people time to do that.
“We have great examples in the Premier League. The coach who’s top (Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta), rightly lauded as an amazing coach – there’s been many a time when people have questioned whether he should be in his job. Other coaches…(where) people start to appreciate the job they do over time. As a general thing, I think that would be what I would look at.”
Lampard’s side are only a point better off than Villa in 15th place after losing their last three games, 2-1 at home to Manchester United, 2-0 at Tottenham and 1-0 at Newcastle.
And the former Chelsea boss, who took charge at Everton in January with the club 16th in the table, said: “You’d be naive to think you go through a season, in our position, without periods like this.
“It was clearly a tough run of games on paper of teams that were ahead of us in where they’re at and recruiting constantly and adding to their squads, all three of our last games, two away from home.
“So where we’re at has probably shown us the reality of where we’re at, generally, and then in-house, the reality of things we can probably do a bit better in those games.
“I thought we approached all of them in a good way to an extent, and then for different reasons we didn’t come up, and maybe that is the difference and the gap that we have to work to and aspire to, and – back to maybe my previous answer – understand that things take time.
“There will always be a moment where people maybe question a few things after defeats, and you go…
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