thomas tucker is sensational and i would love thomas sugal to sign a contract extension and for the club to really back him over any players chelsea have a history of succumbing to player power and i really hope that doesn't happen here thomas sueco needs to be protected and needs to be totally respected he is the answer to any problem that chelsea have but i also think that the sacking of lampard wasn't necessarily correct it changed the direction it changed the direction of the club but we were in the process of building something all the young players and and lamport and morris in the dugout it was special but it ended the way it did certain star players didn't perform and regardless of frank lampard's achievements which i think need to be highlighted in that first season without hazard without any transfers we got to the uh we got to the fa cup final the last NUMBER_TOKEN the champions league finished in the top four that is a dazzling season considering the context a dazzling season it went wrong after the game against luton didn't it uh the following year so this time last year we played luton abraham scored a hat trick if only people listen to me about tammy abrahami uh what a player he is um i was very uh pro abraham got a lot of grief for it i was saying constantly that he should be playing over timo verna and i still believe that he's a better player than team ivana but it's one for another day um i think what is interesting is what next for lampard she's been out the game now for a year which on the face of it feels like quite a long time but it's actually not when you think about i don't know antonio conte had about NUMBER_TOKEN months out didn't he because he had a few issues with chelsea but NUMBER_TOKEN months before he went to into milan pochettino had over a year before uh he took the job after tottenham gave him the tic tac and eddie howe had basically a year and a half off so what next for lampod i mean i think he's very aware that he needs to improve and i know that there was that uh that conversation i thought was very interesting that he had with steve kerr who was at the golden state warriors basketball team and he was over there to try and see if you could poach some of the tactics some of the methods used in the nba and make it work in a football scenario so he seems to be a very progressive forward thinking manager somebody that is keen to improve himself um because he isn't going to just simply rest on his laurels i think he knows that he needs to improve so we will be it will be very interesting to see where he goes from here i mean there's been a lot of talk about other clubs i mean there was there was i think he was touted for the for the norwich job there was talk of the villa job i know bournemouth were interested
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