Lampard is starting over in a bid to rebuild his managerial reputation but has a tough task winning over Coventry supporters
Lampard’s new club are currently closer to the bottom three than they are to the top six, but significant investment in the playing squad over the previous three transfer windows, albeit largely funded by the sales of Gustavo Hamer and Europe’s most coveted striker“I’ve put on record that we want to be in the play-off mix in three out of every five years, and hopefully in one of those we sneak through the door. I think that is a realistic ambition,”earlier this month.
“On Lampard, there are two things: Firstly, I would like to see him be given the benefit of the doubt. Secondly, if you’d asked me for my three bottom choices for the job I probably would have said Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney,” Crone adds.… On that basis, we may as well have got Roberto Di Matteo in. He’s only managed in the Champions League because he was given a job by a club he played for. It’s not like he took Fulham into the top four.
While Crone is unconvinced by Lampard’s coaching ability, Thomas Alcock of the CCFC Analysis substack is more positive about his credentials. “So it’s not as clear-cut for me that it was just a high-value squad that he did ok with. I think the squad was probably not quite as good as people think.”
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