Essen.
Thomas Tuchel will inherit Frank Lampard as coach of Chelsea FC. Why the German is a good choice for Londoners. A comment.
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Frank Lampard as trainer of the FC Chelsea – that was real football romance. However, romance rarely has any place in the football business. After the Blues slipped to ninth place in the Premier League, the Chelsea icon was released from his coaching position on Monday. After only a year and a half.
For the club management, the sporty descent with a view of prominent summer newcomers for more than 250 million euros is a disaster. One that was no longer acceptable. Despite Lampard’s merits for the club. It became too clear that the team needed new impulses.
These should now be from Thomas Tuchel come. A trainer who won’t induce romantic feelings in Chelsea’s followers. But he is undisputedly a world-class coach. The 47-year-old Swabian proved that at Paris Saint-Germain. Not because of his two French championships, but because he managed to turn the wild Parisian circus full of individualists and divas into a functioning team. A team that only narrowly lost in the Champions League final in summer 2020.
Chelsea: Tuchel has the plan that Lampard missed
Tuchel’s meticulousness and his clear tactical plan were decisive. The German stands for offensive play with pressing, ball possession football and patience. A plan that Chelsea FC urgently needs. Under Lampard, even after 18 months, it was not clear what kind of football Chelsea wanted to represent.
