Chelsea has recently spent over £200 million in this summer window with the pressure of delivering is mounting up on Frank Lampard. The club icon has been tipped to get axed if he doesn’t deliver silverware to the Blues.
Chelsea’s powerful transfer spending spree has made the club one of the most attractive in Europe to manage. As per Darren Bent, it will only add pressure on Frank Lampard.
The Blues secured an impressive fourth-place finish with Frank Lampard in his debut season in the Stamford Bridge dugout. It ensured the club’s qualification for the 2020-21 campaign of the Champions League.
However, the Blues ended the season without a trophy after the FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal followed by a heavy 7-1 loss to Bayern Munich over two legs in Europe.
Bent, who played alongside Lampard in England, thinks that it will be a tough season for Lampard. Managers like Mauricio Pochettino will eventually be the hot favorites to manage the club following this summer’s transfer spending.
Indeed, he believes that signing the likes of Kai Havertz, Timo Werner and Ben Chilwell will put increased scrutiny on whether Lampard is suited to winning trophies at Chelsea.
“The next step is trophies,” Bent said.
“Chelsea had a free crack at them and after having a free hit year with a transfer embargo, it has ramped up the pressure twofold. Werner, Ziyech, Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell and Havertz are all luxuries for any manager in the positions they play.”
“For me, he has got to deliver. My fear is that if they don’t get off to the best of starts, other great managers like Pochettino will be waiting to go in.”
“I am pretty sure that most managers around the world would now quit where they were to manage this squad of players,” he added.
After Lampard’s first season at Chelsea, Bent thinks that the Blues boss has a lot more to prove as a manager.
