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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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Made up with today. If Frank saves us from relegation I will love him for ever. If he wins us the F.A cup I promise not to smash Christiana on him when I see her in town next. Come on you blues we are staying up an wining the cup.
 

gwladysnight said:
Derby scraped into the play-offs on the last day and finished 6th, 20 points behind Norwich. They would not have even made it in to the play-offs if Bristol City hadn't fallen apart winning only one of their last 5 games. Derby then faced a Leeds side who had a similar collapse. Taking only one point from their last four games and who were in terrible form.

At Chelsea he inherited an excellent defence that was averaging mid-thirty League goals per season. He dismantled the five at the back, dropped the likes of Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Christensen and Alonso. Not only that he changed from a solid five to a wide open back four. Dropping Rudiger and replacing him with Zouma was bizarre. They went from conceding mid-thirties to mid-fifties in terms of League goals conceded.

Then we come to his Champions League record, I would hardly call losing 7-1 on aggregate in the round of 16 impressive. The bit I don't get is expecting him to be bold and innovative. His tactics are woefully outdated. Teams now look to press high up the pitch. Lampard's answer is to knock it around at the back to give them as much opportunity to win the ball as possible.

Before and after Lampard's tenure Jorginho was the most influential player in Chelsea's team. Week in week out, Jorginho was getting the most touches and was starting attacks. Lampard dropped him and looked to knock it around at the back with Thiago Silva then becoming the dominant player in possesion.

Lampard gets sacked and Jorginho is on the shortlist for the Ballon D'or. Lampard got the Derby job because his uncle Harry was a consultant at Derby. He then gets the Chelsea job after finishing 6th with Derby because rightly so he is a playing legend at Chelsea.

Lampard has done nothing as a manager to even show he is good enough for a job in the Championship, never mind managing a giant like Everton. Far from being a serial winner as a manager, he has won nothing. Benitez was a terrible appointment but Lampard has the potential to be far worse.
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An absolute reinterpretation of the facts.

He did well with a collapsing Derby County team and used them to break out the likes of Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount.

He took over Chelsea during the midst of their transfer ban and despite a chunk of the boardroom not wanting him and blocking transfers in the January window (when their ban was lifted) he finished 4th. He supposedly said he would have walked if it were any other club than Chelsea for the way he was treated.

Second season those who wanted him gone got their way. 9 players were signed above his head & had to integrate them into the squad, the dressing room wasn't happy he was choosing young players like Abraham, Mount & James over the senior players and Petr Cech did the dirty on him under instructions from Marina Granovskaia who never wanted him from the start by turning up to training sessions and turning key players against him.
 
Not a mention of 1.7 mil spent or excuses for injuries!

Lampard has got all of us together and playing a style of football we’ve been thriving for in just 2 short weeks. It won’t all be rosy but at least he and his style of football we can all get behind.

Also love his pre and post match interviews.
 
Rob17896 said:
What absolute rubbish. Any supporter wishes the Everton manager will succeed. Lampard is a breathe of fresh air and inspires a lot of hope and confidence. Instead of having a go at people ask yourself what kind of supporter was desperate for Benitez to fail?
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Hi Rob,

Thanks for your contribution but I’d like to inform you that you are full of BS. Nobody wanted Benitez to fail, because if he did then Everton do and WE (the good guys) put Everton first.

But this is the Frank thread and Frank is putting everything that man did, raaaaaaar in the bin.

So scurry on

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ProZ said:
I always wanted a suit manager after Moyes but I genuinely think we are a tracksuit club manager type
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Glad I'm not the only one to pick up on this. Obviously it's a complicated game and obviously what the manager wears on the touchline has minimal bearing on how the team performs....

but.....

but, but, but...

didn't it look so right to see a quietly balding tracky manager overseeing that victory today?
 
nsno-chris said:
Hi Rob,

Thanks for your contribution but I’d like to inform you that you are full of BS. Nobody wanted Benitez to fail, because if he did then Everton do and WE (the good guys) put Everton first.

But this is the Frank thread and Frank is putting everything that man did, raaaaaaar in the bin.

So scurry on

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Well if it is the Lampard thread STOP going on about Benitez.
 

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