Lampard Reveals Real Reasons for Chelsea’s Poor Form, Faults Boehly
By THECONSCIENCEng
Chelsea legend, Frank Lampard, has openly criticised the club’s co-owner, Todd Boehly’s approach to transfer market and talents acquisition.
Since his takeover in 2022, Boehly has spent over £1 billion in the transfer market, focusing on bringing in green horns like Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo, Cole Palmer, and Mykhailo Mudryk, while experienced players like Jorginho, N’Golo Kante, and Mateo Kovacic have been sold.
Lampard faulted the strategy, insisting it has dropped the team’s standards.
He further cautioned the team to be wary of replacing experience hands with too many young talents and called for greater attention on the performances.
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“I said it quite a lot when I was there and people threw it back at me, I was like: ‘Standards have not been good enough here’. You have to have a level of standards to be a top club. Forget about the tactics of the layer on top, things below have to be right to perform, and I didn’t see it there,” Lampard said on Unfiltered podcast (via GOAL).
“The strategy has been to bring in young players, you have got young kids coming over at 21 from another country, trying to fit into a team. To ask a lot of players to do that at the same time and develop is not an easy thing.
“So I think be very careful, I think the strategy of course will be questioned, and I think there have been things done that you kind of look now and ask if it could have been different, yes.”
