The Next Manager?

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

12 hours ago, Mana said:

I'll be just as critical to Lampard as I was with Sarri. Nostalgic tactics from the board won't work for me. 

EDIT: Also regarding what Drogba said, what is he supposed to say? Him and Lamps are best mates. He is not going to say "I don't think he's ready" to the media! What does that say about their friendship if that happens?

Nice spin from Drogba, saying "Well, when is he ever going to be ready? When he's 40/50?" No Didi! He doesn't have to be 40 or 50. What he could have done is take Derby to the PL. Show that you have this small Derby team fierce. Lamps is building a project with Derby and now he is going to abandon it. This also shows poor integrity.

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[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

1 hour ago, whats happening said:

we barely made top4 with sarri and hazard and now you guys expect that we will make it again? 

 

we will be lucky if we get el next season

I personally have little expectations but unlike a fair few in here I don't NEED us to win to be happy. If I see Frank bringing youth through and having a go, playing attacking football I can settle with that. It's not all about being in the CL

[whats happening 1,621]

43 minutes ago, Tomo said:

How do you know that? Arsenal don't have a big budget and Auba and Lacazette aside have been pretty pants in the market for years. United throw money away at will.

They may sign players but there's no guarantee both or even either will significantly improve, infact (recent) history suggests they won't.

we would be 10 pts behind them if not more if we would not have hazard in our team. you guys are really understimating other teams. we are pure shit without hazard. only something like 20 goals from tammy can save us. also we will play without our arguably 5-6 best players for like few months in to the season, or they wont even be in real form. their injuries are very serious.

 

25 minutes ago, ulsterchelsea said:

I personally have little expectations but unlike a fair few in here I don't NEED us to win to be happy. If I see Frank bringing youth through and having a go, playing attacking football I can settle with that. It's not all about being in the CL

agree. 

[xPetrCechx 13,573]

Derby will NOT stand in Frank Lampard's way when Chelsea offer him manager's job... and host of legends including Didier Drogba and Claude Makelele could join him at the Bridge

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7143167/Derby-NOT-stand-Frank-Lampards-way-Chelsea-offer-managers-job.html

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Whilst it's not official I'll be brutally honest - if he had no history with the club he wouldn't even be considered. Does anyone think his showing last season is good enough for Chelsea? 

Let's call it what it is. Next season is a right off. Top 4 can't be expected. It's as the rumours say, he's here to boost morale and for the 'feel good factor'. Lampard will be coming to be successful, but for the more sober people not personally involved it should be obvious this is a ploy to keep the fans happy at least until the ban is over. Then we can look to our next fucking rebuild (what's that 4 in 8 years?). 

Good thing for frank is that there isn't much pressure. Take it from a pessimist like me, as long as we don't finish 7th or below, frank can hold his head high. 

 

[whats happening 1,621]

so what will happen if january comes and it's clearly that lampard is not good enough? sack him at the end of the season and hire another manager? 4th in 4 years? 

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

For fuck sake let's leave off with the what if, what if.

Folks here are still banging on about if Lamps is appointed he won't do this and he won't do that.

Let's see if he's appointed first, then if he is get behind him, and stop this fucking he won't do this he won't do that, and that goes for Wisey too.

[communicate 2,703]

For me it is very simple. I don't want Lamp to be our manager next season, but if he is our manager then I will support him and give him time unless we are in really bad position. 

[Laylabelle 9,536]

I just hope if he does come and things aren't going smooth it isn't quick firing on your bike. He's coming into such a dodgy situation, ban and a squad that desperately need adding to. Plus they're the ones that would've hired him in the first place knowing the experience or lack of it he has

[xPetrCechx 13,573]

 

[Atomiswave 6,118]

With the ban and without Eden we wont get top 4 anyway.......so if we can see progress and togetherness, one way of pulling, desire and eating grass, its all good in my book.

 

[Superblue 6,372]

I can understand the apprehension of some over Lampard's lack of managerial experience but there are other areas of experience that can be tapped into as a player at the highest level. He played under a plethora of top managers, all with differing personalities, tactics, training drills and managerial styles - From Redknapp and Ranieri who shaped his development, to Mourinho who ingrained a winning mentality, to the likes of Hiddink and Ancelotti who were masters at managing big personalities and dressing rooms. He will have learned a huge amount, both positive and negative, from the experiences within his playing career.

His experience at Chelsea also has to count for something. It's not as straightforward as 'he knows the club and the fans' it goes far deeper than that. He understands from experience the external, intense media scrutiny that surrounds this club because so little information is provided into the open for journalists, creating constant destabilising speculation. He's experienced first hand the hectic nature of this football club in general, seemingly spiralling from crisis to celebration, from disaster to delirium. He's experienced the build up to big games, cup finals, champions league games, etc, the dressing room environment before and after such games and the experience of both winning and losing in those situations. 

I'm fully aware that a top playing career doesn't translate to a top managerial career but there are experiences that a top player can call upon that can really help the cause. From the looks of things the other 'realistic' candidates available are the likes of Javi Gracia and Eddie Howe. The risk that they've never been involved in a big club environment, high pressure situations, etc makes them equally very risky appointments.

I want to see Lampard come in here and be given the time to develop some very young and exciting talent the club has in its ranks and look to play a more dynamic and aggressive brand of football to what has been experienced this season. If he consolidated us comfortably within the top 6 challenging for the top 4 next season and we were playing some good football with young players breaking through the ranks I would be happy with this. It would be a sign of taking a step back to potentially take two or three steps forward. 

If the board would be happy with this, we can only speculate for now. If this is the moment the club realises a period of transition may be necessary for longer term success then that point must start somewhere.

[Costa19 858]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1139864121569107968

FSW or Blanc incoming! 

[Special Juan 28,143]

The pull of Chelsea will be too much I think.

[Jase 43,479]

2 hours ago, Costa19 said:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1139864121569107968

FSW or Blanc incoming! 

If Derby had wanted to extend Lampard's contract, why wait till now? Why wait till when we are clearly going after him? 

[Rapkun 668]

He will be in no hurry to extend his contract especially if we made contact with him.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

How often we see the club offer somebody contract extension after they realized another club was after him? Most of the time. Unless they are done with him. So Derby's reaction is very normal.

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

Absolute bullshit

We need him, and he needs us, make it happen number one.

Taken from Sky Sports.

Roberto Di Matteo says it is not too soon for Frank Lampard to become Chelsea manager because he has all the tools needed to succeed in the role.

[manpe 10,861]

2 hours ago, bigbluewillie said:

Absolute bullshit

We need him, and he needs us, make it happen number one.

Taken from Sky Sports.

Roberto Di Matteo says it is not too soon for Frank Lampard to become Chelsea manager because he has all the tools needed to succeed in the role.

He does have the tools, but needs to learn to master them. I would like to hear RDM's in-depth analysis of why exactly it is not too soon. Too many one sentence statements floating around with nothing to back them up to take them seriously. I do hope he is indeed ready and hits the ground running, and he may as well during the honeymoon period (we have that with every single new manager), but this squad has shown they can't withstand the whole season in such form.

[Atomiswave 6,118]

1 minute ago, manpe said:

He does have the tools, but needs to learn to master them. I would like to hear RDM's in-depth analysis of why exactly it is not too soon. Too many one sentence statements floating around with nothing to back them up to take them seriously. I do hope he is indeed ready and hits the ground running, and he may as well during the honeymoon period (we have that with every single new manager), but this squad has shown they can't withstand the whole season in such form.

We have always needed a motivator to give our best......and he will be just that. Lamps I see him as adaptable, he might not be ready per say, but he will learn faster than mnay give him credit for. I rather Allegri but thats a no since yesterday, so Lamps it is.....I rather Lamps than Ten Hag, Jardim and the likes.