Listen, we all have our views on the situation that unfolded this season with Frank Lampard clearly having a breakdown of relations with a number of first team players.
But the fact is, none of us will truly know what happened and what didn’t happen at our beloved club over the course of the last two seasons, only the people involved will ever really know that and I suspect it will be a long while before any of them speak about it, if at all.
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However, the players have moved forward collectively pulling in the same direction for the good of results and for the good of success of this football team, which can only be a good thing.
Thomas Tuchel has given them all a clean slate, even Marcos Alonso, who scored a beautiful volley to put us 2-0 up against Burnley this weekend.
Former blue Pat Nevin believes the show of unity after the goal was for Alonso and the fact he had made it back in the fold.
“The new manager will have also been delighted that two of his biggest decisions, to play Cesar and Marcos Alonso, paid off so handsomely and so obviously with the two goals,” Nevin wrote in his Chelsea column.
“It was particularly interesting to watch the reaction of the team towards Marcos after he scored the cracker that wrapped up the points. He was immediately surrounded by just about every member of the team.
“Now it is not worth hiding the fact that he was pretty close to persona non grata for a large part of the season, so some may think that the show of affection was aimed elsewhere. I suspect you would be wrong in that assumption.
“In every club players go in and out of favour with the managers, it is part of life and more often than not the rest of the team do not take sides because they have their own work to be concentrating on.
“However, when their mate is back in the fold, the welcome is honest and heartfelt, and aimed specifically at him, no one else.
“It is great to see Marcos back in contention, especially with Spurs coming up in a couple of days, I am sure he particularly likes playing them with his impressive scoring record against the Lilywhites.”
the ruthlessness of the board has been there for years. however, most pple have been quite until lampard was treated in the same manner. the difference is that when it was felipe, boas, carlo, conte, jose, mateo, avant and sarri the english media and particularily english fans cared little because they were foreigners. Under sarri for one season chelsea achieved what lampard failed in one and half seasons but english fans sang ” u do not know what u are doing” and they did not do that to lampard when he performing badly. THE QUESTION IS WHY?? Lampard is a legend so is jose, carlo, conte, mateo sarri, drogba, terry, cech etc so we should all feel for them regardless of where they come from. the media and the fans should have been vocal eg when conte was dismissed.
one mistake lampard make was to come with thidea of quickly getting rid of the old guard. it started with the ill treatment of luiz and the line up against man u in the 4- 0 drubbing and the freezing of pedro, alonso, rudiger, emmerson and cesar. i have asked this question at least 4 times- is cesar at 31 finished to the extent of bequething captaincy to Mount?? lampard failed to manage the transition. infact he was in a hurry to promote the academy graduates and to replace the old guard with the locals including chilwel and the idea to persue rice. i presume cesar and company resisted. the academy graduates were also not performing well.
tuchel needs to build a team of equals and disregard nationality, skin colour and age
Nice sir
that’s the fact….Frank was the kind if coach for Chelsea ..the job came too soon for him
Godwil and alfred ……well said i just hope Tuchel will deliver