by Durhamfootman » Fri May 26, 2023 7:51 am
Whilst I don't disagree with any of that, I will say that the Chelsea owner has to take the blame for Chelsea's season. Hoovering up players and breaking the bank in the kind of scattergun approach that highlights the juvenile reasons behind the owner buying the club in the first place. Lampard is a hopeless manager, but I think he deserves a little bit of credit (just a little bit) for taking over the reins of a club that had been undermined by the owner at every available opportunity. He will have been well rewarded for doing such a poor job, but I do think he took the temporary role on, not for the money, but because he genuinely loves the club and tried to do his best (poor though that is) to help at a time when the owner had left the club directionless and rudderless. If the owner was going to sack his second manager of the season, then he should only have done it once he had lined up a permanent, quality replacement. Instead he asked Lampard to come in and help in on a temporary basis to tide him over until the end of the season, knowing that he had the affection of the fans who worshipped him as a player and would perhaps be less likely to go into open revolt at the dreadful, dreadful damage done by the owner to their club
But yes....... terrible manager
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