I don't know what to say....I guess after that Fulham win, it's not surprising. I fear the writing is on the wall for Frank.
Lampard sent a team out with no plan or vision to be executed. As if they weren't prepared to go up against a LC team that presses and counters as a religion. It's reached the point where Frank is out of his depth and soon the players (if not already) will be losing their faith in him. We looked shameful vs a bottom team as much as we do with a top one. Doesn't matter who we are up against. Its this that makes seeing Frank depart that much easier. The club comes first.
Lampard blaming confidence and individual errors, both soft and relatively meaningless targets. I'm increasingly concerned he doesn't know what the problem is or how to fix it. I'm not seeing much personal accountability here. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/01/19/frank-lampard-reacts-to-leicester-loss
His excuses are running out. It's mid-January and the players are still new? ‘I can’t get caught up in what the reaction will be. I took this job knowing there will be difficult times. We had a ban, we had young players, at the minute we have new players and we can see they are striving for form and to be settled into this team. We just have to fight. Everything was rosy in mid-November but it’s not so rosy now.
We need to give Lamps at least 3 seasons to build the squad. There's no way we're letting him go. Klopp also had such a streak in his final season at Dortmund. We will come good.
That Dortmund team got progressively better until they became champions before.. eventually.. having one season finish worse than those before it. He took a team languishing in 7th place and turned them into champions. There really is no comparison to be made here, imo. While I'm not exactly a fan of the managerial merry-go-round, how do we reconcile getting so much worse? Lamps got his cherry picked transfers, added them to an already top 4 team, making us the best squad in the league personnel-wise. It's hard to look at that and accept current performance levels. I can understand needing time but if that can't be backed up with anything beyond a surface level "he needs time" then that really isn't good enough. If I hired someone to build a house and they weren't even close to being done and I asked to see their blueprints and they didn't have any, then that would be a problem. Doesn't matter how much time you have if you don't have a plan or know what you want your team to look like.
Jeez. Two analogies from a sport I know better than soccer. We look like a pick-up basketball game with a bunch of guys who don’t know each other. Lots of dudes standing around, waiting for their turn to do something, looking frustrated every time they don’t get a chance or anytime someone else tries something and fails. Pulisic looks like that guy who’s just a little better than everyone else, but not enough to dominate, so he ends up just dribbling around til he looses the ball. During the NBCSN broadcast, they said someone from the Athletic reported Frank was a dead man walking. Still hope Roman is patient, but he’s making it hard to root for him. Agree with others we seem adrift and out of ideas. Seeing teams like West Ham, the Foxes, Southampton put out teams with organization and energy consistently is frustrating.