Lampard gifted extra time as Chelsea lack clear succession plan


https://www.espn.in/football/chelsea/story/4294429/chelsea-consider-lampards-replacements-man-united-block-van-de-beek-exit

Frank Lampard's fight to keep his job at Chelsea is being aided over the club's leaders struggling to identify his successor, sources told ESPN. The 42-year-old is under mounting pressure with the Blues 11 points adrift of Premier League leaders Manchester United after winning two of their previous seven Premier League games.

While there is an acknowledgment of the job Lampard did last season in securing a top-four finish despite a FIFA transfer ban and reaching the Champions League round of 16 for the second consecutive year, senior figures at the club expected more this term having spent in excess of 220 million on players last summer. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will decide Lampard's fate, but sources told ESPN that advisors to Abramovich, and director Marina Granovskaia, are torn over who should succeed him.

Speculation linked the unattached duo Thomas Tuchel and Massimiliano Allegri, as well as Southampton's Ralph Hasenhuttl and Julian Nagelsmann of RB Leipzig as possible candidates.