Jamie Carragher urges Everton to SACK the board despite staying up

Jamie Carragher urges Everton to SACK the board despite staying up, insisting ‘awful’ Toffees players shouldn’t celebrate escaping an ’embarrassing’ position… as Ian Wright adds they look like they’re going ‘NOWHERE’ 

• Everton avoided relegation from the Premier League on the season’s final day
• Sean Dyche’s Toffees finished 17th after beating Bournemouth 1-0 on Sunday
• Jamie Carragher said Everton have been ‘awful’ this season despite their survival

Jamie Carragher and Ian Wrght have called for wholesale changes at Everton despite their Premier League survival.

Sean Dyche’s side will remain in the top flight next season after they beat Bournemouth 1-0 on the final day of the season thanks to a wonder goal from Abdoulaye Doucoure, a win that relegated Leeds and Leicester.

The overring emotion for fans at Goodison Park was relief rather than joy, though, after their side had been dragged into a relegation battle for the second year in a row.

Calls rang around the ground to ‘sack the board’ and for owner Farhad Moshiri to sell the club.

Jamie Carragher sympathised with the frustrated supporters, as he said on Sky Sports: ‘The supporters were singing “sack the board” at the end of the game. I agree with that.

Everton will remain a Premier League team next season after beating Bournemouth on the final day of the season

There were calls to ‘sack the board’ and for owner Farhad Moshiri (right) to sell the club despite the win

 ‘Something has to happen on that in the next couple of days. In terms of the players as well, they’ve been awful this season. They shouldn’t be getting away with it at all.’

On the Everton squad celebrating their survival, the former Liverpool centre back said: ‘I understand the players’ interviews. They’re on a high, they’ve stayed up. They haven’t got that stain that they were part of the squad that took Everton down. 

‘But when I heard things like “the commitment, the mentality got us over the line”, it’s embarrassing that they’re actually in this position…I can understand tonight, you’re relieved, but don’t be celebrating that too much.’

Everton’s narrow escape comes after they finished just four points above the drop zone last season. Fans have regularly protested Moshiri’s ownership and the board after a lack of direction that has seen them get through eight permanent managers in seven years.

Ian Wright (left) and Jamie Carragher (right) both felt big changes were need at Goodison Park

Sean Dyche said the club had ‘a lot more to do’ and insisted he took ‘no joy’ from the final day win

Ian Wright agreed that Everton should not be let off the hook despite avoiding relegation, as he said on Match of the Day: ‘For me the management side of things do need to change in respects of upstairs. It needs a total re-boot

‘Someone like Sean Dyche he’s come in and shown that he’s capable but I think the relationship between the owners and the fans have to be repaired before they do anything else.

‘Because the only thing that they have left is those fans because at the moment everton look like a place going nowhere as it is right now. If they don’t do that they’ll end up doing that again next season and maybe they won’t get out of it with a great goal.’

Everton boss Sean Dyche also felt the Toffees had ‘a lot more to do’ despite securing their Premier league status and insisted he took ‘no joy’ from their final day win.

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