Vybz Kartel

The most worrying thing is the high level chances we concede, Mendy won't help with that. There is too much space between midfield and defence. Our attack also is kinda disjointed we rely on individual brilliance more than attacking set plays.

The worrying thing for me is not the results, its the gaps in midfield and defence as well as chances we concede. We might have prime Nuer in that backline and we would still concede a lot of goals. We are tactically off and rely too much on individual brilliance kinda like Hazard never left.

Simply not good enough. We can not be dropping points to the West Broms of the world.

Its also been a year of the same stuff, better to cut our losses whilst the season is young.

After the money we spent patience will be thin to allow the replacement to have enough time to salvage the season. So I think his gone by November if it stays like this

Look at the gap between midfield and defence like this is basic school boy stuff, we are not coached well. There is so much space to exploit

I would bring back Sarri if it means not watching Lampardball ever again

I know people don't want to hear this but I think we should cut our ties sooner rather than later, Arteta has been in his role in less than a year and Arsenal look better coached than us. We have had a big enough sample now to form an opinion

Just maybe Kepa isn't the problem??? Lampard won't last till Christmas if we are still that unorganized at the back

Personally I have seen enough over the last year to know Lampard will not take us anywhere. He needs to go sooner rather than later. He has no philosophy and players seem like they are not coached well before games.

I know I am in the minority but I thought Kepa looked better today, more assured. That goal was terrible other than that I feel like his heading in right direction. His distribution was on point and made decent saves when called upon in the 1st half. He even came out for set pieces which was decent to see, hoping this is a fresh start for him and he gets back his confidence. Either way we have good competition coming in.

Its nothing to do with players. We look disjointed. There is too much space in midfield. Thats a coaching thing, we never had that much space in there during Conte or Sarri's time. We let people take free hits and don't close down. We have been fundamentally flowed since last August. Lamps has to improve us there otherwise he won't last past Christmas because we will concede loads even with Mendy in.

I know we are winning and all but I am still seeing a lot of the same problems from last season. Big gaps between mid and defence as well as disjointed attack. We won't go far if we don't improve in those areas.

Personally I think he needs to be sacked for Pochettino, his a average manager at most imo. He will never really take us anywhere because he can't coach defending.

So we are going to go all Russian KGB over this serious issue??

I dont trust Lampard with a rebuild thats my main problem with him, he has failed to improve the collective and his 2 full seasons in management he has less than 20 clean sheets. With Klopp and Pep they improved the collective play of the team, made worse players look better however Lampard has failed to do that. I dont want us spending money every time a player goes out of favor because the manager can not improve them, Kepa a very expensive outlay being an example? What difference is he to every other cheque book manager then? Look at Klopp's starting 11 for crying out loud (Henderson, Wjnaldum, Milner, Robertson) All bargain players that look better than their talent due to great coaching. Lampard has not improved any single player this season including the ones who had a lot of potential like Mount and Tomori. Mount was known as the end product king but thats disappeared, Kepa I wont even mention. Abraham has always scored goals but even him has regressed as the season has gone on.

I know I am the minority here but I still think Kepa is good enough, get rid of his Goal Keeping coach or Lamps and I think he will bounce back, Lampard's team has left him exposed such that his confidence has sky rocked down. He has good reflexes, the claiming of balls can be improved look at DDG he had the same problem earlier in his career too. His a good sweeper keeper too which plays well in the modern game. Upgrade on our defence and tactics them we likely wont have to spend unnecessary money on a goal keeper when we have more pressing holes in the team.

Thats not true, Klopp got to a Europa League Final his first season, his 2nd season he got top 4, third season he got to UCL final, 4th season he won UCL and 5th season he is winning EPL. Lampard has not shown anything to give him the benefit of the doubt, in fact we have gotten worse at the back of which we can argue that maybe earlier in the season he was still benefiting from Sarri's tactical work, our ball playing from the back has gotten worse. Kepa has his flaws but his regressed massively under Lampard and that is on him. Klopp had the ability to turn mediocre players into a better collective something Lamps has failed to do up to this point. This season would have been better off with a Conte who can turn a turd into cavier.

If Lampard is going to be sacked by December I would rather we sack him before the summer window so that our next manager buys his players, we cant be stuck with Lampard's players next season and a new manager trying to shoehorn them in. Thats why we have the mess we have right now.

Same old problems, it shows Kepa might not actually be the problem

I would sack Lampard just for the new manager bounce

I would get rid right now and bring in Hiddink that's how much I want him gone.

Lampard has to go before the weekend

Kepa is being exposed by Lampard's defense, he has regressed but I feel like it has to do also with lack of confidence in his back line, take that goal he conceded the other time when he passed to Zouma and it was intercepted, last season when we played fro the back people knew their roles and positions well such that you could blindly pass and you would find someone. I know players hate the monotonous Italian way but it works if fully bought into.

Interesting article, we need a stadium rebuild but I just dont see Abramovich funding it. We have been left behind sadly, he should have allowed investors into the club.