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Fuck off Frank Lampard


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I was always a pretty big advocate for Lampard succeeding. Seemingly well spoken + reported high IQ; fairly positive football; lauded by pretty much every figure in football he's worked with as a player/manager as model of discipline. He is, however, unerringly arrogant, and that may have been his undoing.

 

The real downfall is the summer transfer business, in that as a business you cannot be spending £150 m. on assets that your custodian completely devalues / neglects. Havertz + Werner have been so atrocious that they really need to move him on now before they are both ruined, and see if another manager can get a tune.

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7 minutes ago, Alex_K said:

I was always a pretty big advocate for Lampard succeeding. Seemingly well spoken + reported high IQ; fairly positive football; lauded by pretty much every figure in football he's worked with as a player/manager as model of discipline. He is, however, unerringly arrogant, and that may have been his undoing.

 

The real downfall is the summer transfer business, in that as a business you cannot be spending £150 m. on assets that your custodian completely devalues / neglects. Havertz + Werner have been so atrocious that they really need to move him on now before they are both ruined, and see if another manager can get a tune.

I have strong doubt fat Fwank spent the money. The MO of the club owner is to buy who he wants and tell the manager to manage.

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Despite him being a cunt, more so after his incident with Klopp, I think fatty has been hard done by here. He was big enough (not just weight wise) to admit he was out of order which was decent of him. Yeah he spent a lot of money in the summer but it takes time for so many new signings to settle into the team. And unlike every Chelsea manager since Roman took charge, he at least made use of their academy players. No doubt these youngsters will disappear soon once the new man comes in.

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9 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

I have strong doubt fat Fwank spent the money. The MO of the club owner is to buy who he wants and tell the manager to manage.

Well, exactly. Which is why Lampard will need to go. It is a club that has always placed their player talent on a pedestal above the manager (even so far as Mourinho's first reign). The rights & wrongs of that can be debated (its certainly won them a lot of trophies), but no manager is ever bigger than the players there.

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He was as greedy a player on the pitch as he was off it. I realise you have to be incredibly driven and single-minded to be a successful athlete, but imagine having Lampard’s ability - relatively high though it was compared to the average - and looking at Stevie as someone who should be doing your donkey work and guarding the back door for you. Arrogant is the word. Wouldn’t feel sorry for him even if he got home tonight to find his wife had made him a watercress salad for his tea.

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I remember when we used to laugh at foreign leagues' chairmen sacking managers left, right and centre , like Gil in Spain.

 

In some ways I think he is unlucky and should have been given at least this season, but his biggest error in my opinion was never taking the blame for anything , players are very fickle these days and you need to have them on board

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I’ve seen people saying they shouldn’t have sacked him because Klopp has shown what’s possible if you just give a manager time. Do they actually think there weren’t huge signs of progress - with sell to buy owners - or he was under pressure early on with us? It baffles me.

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