Richarlison wanted to go and only had two years left on his contract. It wasn’t in Lampard’s hands. He has referred a number of times to losing the goals from Richarlison and needing to add in that area. Came close to signing Kudus from Ajax and he’d have made a difference - when that fell through they didn’t get anyone else in and as soon as the transfer window closed, clearly scoring goals was going to be the big issue in the team. Importantly Lmpard said we it was important if we couldn’t get the right player we didn’t just bring someone in for the sake of it