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Player Valuation: £20m
We just don't know what the financial landscape looks like, if it's as bleak as we've been warned then managers like Kovac won't go near us. It's probably the reason why we ended up with Benitez in the first place. If talks ever got off the ground with Galtier last summer then he'd have run back to France screaming after being told that he didn't even have £2m to spend. It's probably the reason why the talks with Espirito Santo broke down so quickly.
I think we are in a period of managed decline right now, so we absolutely need the new manager to put more faith in our young players in the hope that they can bridge the gap to the lack of any new major transfers. Lampard makes sense in this regard, he has direct and recent experience of working under constraints were he had to use the players he had at his disposal as well as looking to the long overlooked youth players at Chelsea as a way of refreshing his team. He obviously comes with major risks though and made some absolutely barking tactical decisions at Chelsea, such as his use of Kante and exiling players like Rudiger and Alonso. However, finishing fourth under the constraints he had was a great achievement and he'd have nowhere that kind of expectation attached to him now, he'd be given time to hone his craft.
Still, the job at hand is not as immediately perilous as it may appear. We are 6 points ahead of 18th placed Norwich, with two games in hand over them. So one thing we don't need is firefighter, gun for hire manager like Allardyce all over again. We have an opportunity now to look at growing from the ground up.
I think we are in a period of managed decline right now, so we absolutely need the new manager to put more faith in our young players in the hope that they can bridge the gap to the lack of any new major transfers. Lampard makes sense in this regard, he has direct and recent experience of working under constraints were he had to use the players he had at his disposal as well as looking to the long overlooked youth players at Chelsea as a way of refreshing his team. He obviously comes with major risks though and made some absolutely barking tactical decisions at Chelsea, such as his use of Kante and exiling players like Rudiger and Alonso. However, finishing fourth under the constraints he had was a great achievement and he'd have nowhere that kind of expectation attached to him now, he'd be given time to hone his craft.
Still, the job at hand is not as immediately perilous as it may appear. We are 6 points ahead of 18th placed Norwich, with two games in hand over them. So one thing we don't need is firefighter, gun for hire manager like Allardyce all over again. We have an opportunity now to look at growing from the ground up.
