People want Frank Lampard sacked?

Absolutely no one should have expected Chelsea to be winning to the title this season, despite spending north of £200m in the summer window. The board didn't/doesn't expect that either.

The goal is to see clear improvements and...

finish in the top 2/3. Regarding the finishing spot, there are 23 games left of this season and had Chelsea won yesterday(I know they didn't) they would have been 2nd, 3 points off first which just shows how tight it is and how Chelsea is very much in with a good chance of...

reaching their target.

Chelsea has clearly showed improvements. Chelsea are statistically one of the best organized teams in the defensive phase from open play and their defending from set-pieces has improved dramatically as well. In addition to that, they are not as...

naïvely exposed to counter-attacks as they were last season and has gone from being one of the worst teams in the PL in attacking set-piece situations to being maybe the best in the world this season. Clear improvements has been made. The only big weakness that really...

remains and worries me is that they struggle to break down low-blocks. What does it take to break down a low-block/organized defence? It takes 2 things: Individual brilliance and players that knows each other inside and out.

Chelsea's 3 biggest weapons in breaking up...

a low-block are Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech and Kai Havertz. Pulisic has started only 6 games this season because of injuries, Ziyech has started only 7 games and Havertz is 21 and settling into a new league while having faced strong symptoms of Covid-19, setting..

his fitness back weeks if not months. Regarding the players knowing each other inside and out point, that can only happen over time. You get to work on stuff like that in pre-season and in training sessions and you get used to it having played MANY games together.

Chelsea didn't have a pre-season this year and with the schedule being the way it is they barely have time to prepare for the next match, let alone work on player relations. Chelsea has played 15 PL games this season and their most important creative players has barely...

featured. How can you then expect a change?

I see people thinking so simplistically on here that it hurts. People say that Lampard should be sacked because his team isn't delivering better results after spending £200m in the summer. That's not how it works.

Some context doesn't hurt. Have you ever checked the state of the other "top teams" in Europe?

Liverpool is top of the league while pacing 84 points. That's 15 points less than they got last season. Man Utd got eliminated in the CL group stages and is pacing 73 points...

Tottenham haven't won in 5 games and sit tied with us on points despite having an "experienced" manager and having had a brilliant transfer window. Man City is a shadow of their former selves and Arsenal is currently in a relegation battle.

PSG are 3rd in Ligue 1...

Neither Juventus nor Atalanta is in the top 5 in the Serie A and Juventus finds themselves 10 points off top-spot already. Bayern only has 2 points down to third in the Bundesliga and Dortmund isn't even in the top 4.

It's not Chelsea struggling to get the "expected" results...

it's literally everyone. Not one single "top team" is as good as they were last season. Sacking a manager who is still in the with a very good shot of reaching the pre-set goal in the league, who just guided his team through their best CL-group stage in recent memory and just...

had a 17-game unbeaten run in all competitions ended, not many teams, if any, have had such a run in this very special season, would be absolutely crazy!!

Also forgot to mention Real Madrid who just recently got into the top 4 in La Liga and faced a very real...

threat of being eliminated in the group-stages of the CL. Barcelona are in 5th place, 8 points behind 1st place with 1 game MORE played.

Not one of those teams has got as many new first-team players, in need of time and patience to settle in as Chelsea. That's a disadvantage..

not an advantage to Chelsea. Especially in the early stages of the season, which we are still in.

The only thing I think it's fair to criticize him for are some of his decisions, which I agree has been weird. However, if there's one thing people should have learned by now...

after all of this chopping and changing business, it's that every single manager will make decisions that the vast majority will disagree with. Mourinho decided that de Bruyne wasn't good enough, he sold Mata to Man Utd and he had a crazy love for Oscar and Willian.

Conte refused to drop Alonso, Cahill and Moses when they clearly weren't performing and he just went over the boards' head when he cut off Diego Costa and refused to play David Luiz.

Sarri mistreated club legend Gary Cahill, he neglected Loftus-Cheek and Hudson-Odoi...

when everyone thought they deserved to play and he refused to drop Jorginho when everyone thought he should have.

Every manager will make decisions that are not popular with the vast majority because managers are human beings like the rest of us and human beings make their..

own decisions, be that wrong or correct decisions.

If we hire someone else, chances are HUGE that they would not have done any better and even if they did, they would still make their own decisions that would have been unpopular with you.

Be careful what you wish for.