As Frank Lampard tries to rebuild this Everton side in his own image, one man who arguably typifies the complete nightmare of a transfer strategy in recent years under Farhad Moshiri, is Alex Iwobi.

The Nigeria international signed in a deal worth around £34m back in the summer of 2019, and it's since been 133 weeks to the day that he joined the club.

With 83 games under his belt for the Toffees, Iwobi has been nothing short of a disaster, scoring just six times and providing only six assists too -  it’s hardly a surprise then that he was described as "embarrassing" by The Liverpool Echo’s David Prentice last season.

Former Everton man Michael Ball was equally loud in his criticism of the versatile attacker, pointing to the fact Arsenal fans seemed to be delighted with Iwobi's sale.

He said: "Yeah it hasn’t worked out for him. He came to the football club with that chunk of a fee. The reaction of the Arsenal fans didn’t really help, I think they were very pleased with the amount of money they received for him.

"And you just hoped that (Alex) Iwobi would come to the football club with the attitude to prove them all wrong and show everybody that he is worth that amount of money and he’s got the ability to step up to the plate but, unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out for him."

The £100k-a-week earning ace has endured a Goodison Park nightmare, and while he has featured in the past two games for the Toffees under Lampard, it's hard to see how he turns things around in the long-term.

With his transfer fee and wages combined, the Toffees have splashed out an incredible £47m on Iwobi in the time that he has been at the club, and that's money well and truly down the drain.

If Everton genuinely have aspirations of taking that next step under a new and exciting young coach in Lampard, then it's high-time they cleared out the deadwood in the summer, with Iwobi being one of them.

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