Chelsea sack Lampard - The Inside Story
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein and Liam Twomey to bring us the inside story of Chelsea's decision to sack Frank Lampard.
We'll detail the events that lead to the final decision being made, the problems Lampard had with some sections of a crowded dressing room, the role his relationships with the Chelsea hierarchy played, how his struggles to get Werner and Havertz playing well were viewed and how there were reservations as far back as August from not just the club but Lampard himself too.
We're also joined by our German football writer Raphael Honigstein with insight on what Lampard's replacement Thomas Tuchel will bring to Chelsea. What is he like as a coach and a personality? Is there more to it than just the fact he's a German coach? How long has he been on the club's radar?
There's also some transfer talk as we head into the last week of the window with detail on Martin Odegaard's imminent arrival at Arsenal and news of behind-the-scenes talks between Donny Van de Beek and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as the Dutchman's start to life at Old Trafford continues to be overshadowed by the timely resurgence of Paul Pogba.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.6 | Welcome to the Ornstein and Chapman Pod on The Athletic. |
| 0:10.3 | As usual, we're going to bring you exclusive insight and stories from our team of writers. |
| 0:15.0 | We have planned a show that looked mainly at the last week of the transfer window, |
| 0:18.7 | but then Chelsea sacked Frank Lampard |
| 0:22.0 | so you will get some transfer lines later from David |
| 0:24.7 | Laurie Whitwell and Adam Crafton |
| 0:26.5 | but we're going to start with the biggest story in town |
| 0:29.3 | Lampard is gone |
| 0:30.4 | Thomas Tuchel looks set to replace him |
| 0:32.5 | and joining us to get to the bottom of it all |
| 0:34.9 | is the Athletics Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey |
| 0:37.6 | and our German football writer Raphael Honingstone. |
| 0:43.7 | Liam, we'll hear from Raff in a moment. Let's come to you first. Do you think the writing |
| 0:49.2 | has been on the wall for a while? Yes, it was. I mean, Simon Johnson and I ran a story |
| 0:54.1 | at the beginning of |
| 0:55.0 | January saying that Lampard's job was under immediate threat and that Chelsea were |
| 0:59.5 | already exploring alternative coaching options. And as far as we understand it, those conversations |
| 1:06.0 | never stopped. And clearly things intensified after the Leicester defeat |
| 1:12.3 | and where Let's believe that the nature of that defeat |
| 1:16.2 | was the final straw in all of this |
| 1:19.1 | and that the wheels have been in motion ever since then |
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