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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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Look around you. We are legion...

“Legion” - A multitude, or 3000-6000 foot soldiers!

Davek’s Legion - 6-8 Benitez fanboys on here!

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I said that if we didn't beat United he had to go. That's because I value the club more than any manager and always will do.

I also said that Lamapard was in the strange position of either being sacked for taking us into the Championship or a hero who saved us...no half measures with his appointment.

Fortunately it looks like he's going to be our hero if we can just get one more win.

Gotta keep the faith Dave!
 

I said that if we didn't beat United he had to go. That's because I value the club more than any manager and always will do.

I also said that Lamapard was in the strange position of either being sacked for taking us into the Championship or a hero who saved us...no half measures with his appointment.

Fortunately it looks like he's going to be our hero if we can just get one more win.
Having both championship and premier league experience, as long as we'd performed to a half decent standard, he'd have been kept on if I was in charge.

Not counting chickens before they hatched but if we stay up (we have the same problems but to a lesser degree as if we'd gone down) and hopefully Lampard has an idea of how to get the players to turn up every game and not lose their fight at any sign of adversity from the opening game's kick off to the final whistle of the last game. And that's before we can even talk about attractive expansive football.
 

If we stay up i can see us starting next season playing very similarly to how we're playing now. I don't think we'll see a revolution in how we play it will more an evolution. You can't all of a sudden become a totally different side to the one we are now due to financial constraints. It's also going to be important next season to start on a winning/solid note rather than lose the first four playing expansive football with players that just aren't good enough for that style.
 
ALTERNATIVELY...

It took Lampard about 8 games to convince the players that unlike Benitez's logic - you are actually allowed to kick the football.

These players have done these miraculous turn arounds before. Under Allardyce, under Silva, under Carlo, even under Benitez at the start. Until I see more than half a season of sustained form from them I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them.

It’s in their interest to avoid relegation at the moment, to play well and survive the summer window. When it looked like Benitez had a few of their numbers with Digne leaving it became their interest to get rid of him, just as they did with Koeman and Silva. When the players see their contracts under threat, they get managers fired. That’s their MO.

Lampard therefore had a golden opportunity to swing the axe this summer but I would bet a lot of money that we’ll see stories of ‘Coleman is worth another season’ ‘Keane is ready to knuckle down under a new manager’ ‘Kenny is a blue, another extension is only logical’ ‘we don’t need a midfielder with Davies back to fitness’. Then when Lampard starts to realise he’s made a massive mistake and draws up plans for getting this lot out in January, they’ll turn as they did on all the other managers and have him out before the Jan window.

As a club we need to be brutal this summer. A few games of decent performance from these charlatans shouldn’t overturn the abysmal application they’ve shown over the last 18 months under Ancelotti, Benitez, and Lampard until a few weeks ago.
 
These players have done these miraculous turn arounds before. Under Allardyce, under Silva, under Carlo, even under Benitez at the start. Until I see more than half a season of sustained form from them I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them.

It’s in their interest to avoid relegation at the moment, to play well and survive the summer window. When it looked like Benitez had a few of their numbers with Digne leaving it became their interest to get rid of him, just as they did with Koeman and Silva. When the players see their contracts under threat, they get managers fired. That’s their MO.

Lampard therefore had a golden opportunity to swing the axe this summer but I would bet a lot of money that we’ll see stories of ‘Coleman is worth another season’ ‘Keane is ready to knuckle down under a new manager’ ‘Kenny is a blue, another extension is only logical’ ‘we don’t need a midfielder with Davies back to fitness’. Then when Lampard starts to realise he’s made a massive mistake and draws up plans for getting this lot out in January, they’ll turn as they did on all the other managers and have him out before the Jan window.

As a club we need to be brutal this summer. A few games of decent performance from these charlatans shouldn’t overturn the abysmal application they’ve shown over the last 18 months under Ancelotti, Benitez, and Lampard until a few weeks ago.

Not sure myself mate, it's all about man management and keeping players happy - ego stroking.

Benitez is notoriously terrible at it, hence being sacked at every job he has bar Newcastle, where he played the fans against Ashley.
 

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