Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
I am not at all invested in Lampard. I have always regarded him as a "face" appointment, one that could placate a section of the fanbase with a little stardust and take the pressure off the charlatans who run the club while not exactly getting stellar results. Moshiri had his one genuine go with Carlo, before the wise old fox called time and won another Champions League. I doubt Moshiri now has the appetite or the means to go for anybody even approaching the vaunted Italian's level.I’m not disputing the fact there are no easy fixes at all mate. I’m just questioning whether Lampard really is that long-term fix. I have my doubts is all.
I'd stay with Lampard for now. The bar being set for him really is not that high. Keep us out of the bottom three and make us look like we can keep real trouble at bay. So, a comfortable 15th is really all that he is being asked to deliver. But my feeling is that the Frank years will never amount to anything more than that. Therefore, I really don't care if he stays or goes right now because I don't think it'll make a massive difference either way while the club is run the way it is. Most managers have almost no impact on a club's success. This is statistically proven. It's all about the salaries to points correlation. So as long as Lampard has us competitive, respectable, and slowly progressing, he'll do for me. But he is on a tightrope.
Moshiri, basically, needs a manager to keep the club in the league until the new stadium opens. If we lose to Newcastle, Lampard will start to feel heat because the progress that I believe I can see will not have been enough to avoid a series of setbacks. The question will be: are we progressing enough to avoid stalling? Any owner with the ego of a man who managed to snare Carlo Ancelotti will always feel he can do better. Frank's been given a chance. If we go into the World Cup break in the bottom three, things get hairy. I always felt he'd survive if we were not cut adrift at the bottom, but if Wolves and Leicester start to improve and we keep losing - or not winning - then that becomes a possibility. I don't hink Lampard is a long-term fix. I see no evidence that he could be. But he has to be a short-term fix or he'll be under huge pressure come November.