Chelsea’s owners thought they were the smartest guys in the room. Turns out, they are not. Pretty far from it! And right now, they are also the least popular ones, with the club seemingly heading in the wrong direction in every aspect of the business.
One easy way they could curry a bit of favor with the supporters would be to appoint a new head coach for next season who’s already popular with the fanbase, say Frank Lampard or Cesc Fàbregas. Alas, neither of those two have added any fuel to a potential rumor-fire, and while they have not gone out of their way to rule out the possibility either, they certainly don’t seem to be jumping at the opportunity.
Fàbregas has said that he would be pretty “stupid” to even think about it, while Lampard has made it pretty clear that his “business” is with the lighter shade of blues in Coventry.
“I don’t want to talk about Liam and Chelsea because I’ve been there. I never want to talk too much about managers because of context behind the scenes. It’s disrespectful to have a judgement on it, that’s for pundits.
“I’m Coventry manager, I’m enjoying my moment of us being promoted and winning the title and that’s it. […] Chelsea is a big part of my life, but at the moment, that’s their business and my business is here.”
“[In] the world of management […] lots of things are out of your control. You can only control your work and I have to talk about rumours and things, but at the moment, we need to enjoy where we are and what we’ve done this season. I’m proud and pleased to be a part of it.”
-Frank Lampard; source: Sky Sports
Things can change quickly in football of course — Enzo Maresca took the Chelsea job after also winning the Championship two years ago, for example — but there’s nothing to see here … at the moment.
The pessimist (realist?) in me sees these two de-facto rejections as the just the first two of many to come this summer. BlueCo gonna have to put on a real dog and pony show to convince someone to come work for them.
