Frank Lampard has admitted he has a point to prove at Everton and that he did not seek assurances over job security from Farhad Moshiri during talks to become the club’s sixth permanent manager in six years. Lampard ended 12 months out of the game on Monday when he was appointed by Everton on a two-and-a-half year contract. During an assured first press conference on Thursday, the 43-year-old said his new role “gets my juices flowing” and that his preferred style of play fitted neatly with the club’s traditions. But after being sacked by Chelsea – “one bad month and you lose your job,” as he described it – Lampard accepts his managerial credentials will be questioned as he attempts to haul Everton out of relegation trouble. “It’s the world we live in,” he said. “I guess if you decide to be the manager of a football club, particularly in the Premier League, you are not going to cruise through your career without having points to prove at various different times. Even the absolute best – the most successful – have that, so I have got no issue with that. As a player, I found I had a point to prove at various different times; sometimes it brings the best out of you and I hope it does with me.” Moshiri, Everton’s majority shareholder, has overseen lavish spending and managerial churn since his arrival in 2016, leading to recent fan protests over how the club is run. Lampard, however, does not consider Everton or the task he has inherited from Rafael Benítez as a risk, and admits he did not ask for long-term stability from Moshiri because results will determine his future. “I don’t want to talk about private conversations but I don’t sit here craving time in terms of a two or three-year vision,” said Lampard, who has added Ashley Cole to his backroom team as first-team coach. “I know it is very nice to talk about the new stadium and where we want to be in the next few years, but what I have learned from being in football and being at Chelsea is that you just need to get your head down and work. “I am at the start of something now, and I certainly haven’t asked for any assurances to that point. I will be as good as what impression I can have on this team and this squad. I will be as good as the style and the way of playing can be enjoyed by the fans. I will be particularly as good as the results we can produce in the short term and, hopefully, the long term. There are ‘maybes’ and ‘ifs’ but it is not worth getting involved with them. I’m in a great job and I am very proud to be here. Now is just the time to work.” Despite the team’s Premier League position, fan unrest and erratic ownership, Lampard says he had no misgivings. “I took it as I found, and that is the only way. I have found an owner, a chairman and a board that, from my first conversation, the one thing that was clear was that they want to find the best way to take this club forward. They are very united. I know there have been some difficult times but it is not my job to look over those. I only want to look at the future. “I grew up with Everton being an incredible team in the mid-80s. I remember the team and the size of the club and I remember coming here to play, and feeling the atmosphere. Those things are the big pull. To manage a club with such a fan base, such a tradition, and the idea that I could give them back something they want, that is the thing that gets my juices flowing.” Lampard’s first game will be at home to Brentford in the FA Cup on Saturdaytomorrow. He then faces a critical Premier League test three days later at Newcastle, who trail Everton by four points. “I hope to bring an exciting brand of football,” he said. “There are some basic fundamentals that an Everton team needs to have, and I hope to bring those too. When I think of an Everton atmosphere, from playing against it, it’s a team that loves to see crosses and pressure and second balls, shots and combinations and things done at speed, and a team that wants to run and a team that wants to press high up the pitch. Those things absolutely align with my philosophy.”