Chelsea: Three huge reasons why Frank Lampard should stay on

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3. A lack of proper preparation

The team had to enter the season without essentially any pre-season to help acclimate a bevy of new players with their new squad and inculcate them into the system that Lampard is seeking to employ. Not a great way to accustom new players to a completely new way of playing the game. In a completely new league. Against a completely different, more physical, and likely more talented from top-to-bottom groups of clubs. The sum total of all of these challenges has been a side of great individual talents that have yet to find themselves as a team. This, again, should not be laid at the feet of the gaffer. In addition, all of the new players (save the keeper, Benjamin Mendy), were of the smaller or slighter variety, not generally more likely to acclimate to the rough and tumble of the Premier League easily, if at all.

The end result was that Lampard and his bevy of raw (at least in terms of the Premier League) recruits were thrown to the wolves (no pun intended, there) in a tumultuous time. This time as explained previously was anything but inclined to favor a new group of players, no matter how talented individually they may have been. So while hopes were sky high, expectations stratospheric, and title aspirations confident, the reality was and is that all of those hopes, expectations, and aspirations were a mirage and unrealistic in the world in which we live and the situation in which the Chelsea side found itself at the onset of the season and still finds itself in now.

So to sum up, in the pandemical situation in the world in which we now still unfortunately live, in the situation in which the Chelsea side found itself with a myriad of talented acquired players new to England and the whole Premier League atmosphere, and the fact that this new group was thrown together without any preparation whatsoever and was devastated by injuries and illness to key players for months on end.

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The proposition is that Chelsea Nation should support Lampard and afford him the support, the time, and the opportunity to meld this squad into the one he hoped it would become from the outset. The vote cast Lampard is given the opportunity to work through current difficulties, he is allowed to remain as Chelsea manager, and that he stays and achieves the new glory that is destined to be his, and Chelsea’s. How will you vote?

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