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Billy Gilmour going to Brighton for £9m! Buy high and sell cheap must be the mandate these days..

Billy Gilmour going to Brighton for £9m! Buy high and sell cheap must be the mandate these days..

Great decision not to be bullied into paying more for Kounde. The player is unsettled now and unsettled players never stay for long. It seems we have learned from the debacle of 2017 and not panic buy. I'm sure we will get him next summer..

They always find the money and they can raise it with some of the fringe players they have, have a look who’s there.

He won’t be joining us unless we pay 120m + AND have an agreed buy out clause put into the contract (which would be resisted by the club)

f**k it, I'm excited for Tuchel. He's going to be our manager for 10 years and win us multiple big cups and playing amazing football.
I'll never stop being excited by a new manager. I can't help it. 

Does anyone think that Frank was just a stop gap? The board/owner buying Harvetz & Werner was to tempt one of the German coaches knowing full well that was their main target anyway?

I expect Tuchel to win the Champions League, FA cup, Premier League and World Cup this season. If he fails, I'm Tuchel OUT.

Well I haven't had a chance to read much on the board for a while but just thought I would give my 2 cents:
 
First, I hate seeing Lampard go - probably my favorite player ever. Was thrilled to see him hired as Manager of Chelsea and as most of you was hopeful his success as a player and club legend would transfer to his managerial career. I don't think I ever considered his time at Derby as evidence of his possible success as it was only one year and I also never watched Derby to know anything about his tactics or philosophy. So basically, my whole opinion was based on faith.
Watching Chelsea this season Lampard had two major flaws. First, his insistence on trusting youth a bit too much, he put his Chelsea career on the line to develop players. Tammy Abraham and Reece James are the main culprits as they at times had no business being on the field. Tammy most of all had no business being in the starting 11 for Chelsea in any match outside of a domestic cup.
He may score a goal here or there but he is not a player to be depended on in tough premier league matches or european matches. That is what Giroud and Werner are are there for. Frank really got this wrong -I mean really, starting Tammy Abraham against Leicester? It's almost naïve. 
As for Reece, fantastic talent but has a long way to go to develop as a RB. His positional awareness is lacking and can be lazy tracking back. Azpi can still do a job and should be depended on in big matches.
Frank's second flaw and main reason for his demise was his lack of identity and ability to stick to a starting 11. Are we playing with a lone 6 and 2 number 8's? Or is it a six, eight, ten? Two holding mids and an attacking mid? Frank never decided on that and to make it worse he mixes and matches EVERY game. You cannot do that and expect results.  To compound the problem he tinkers with his striker and wingers constantly. So now you have a midfield with no visible identity, no consistency in selection passing to a forward line that is different each time. Tammy doesn't play like Werner does, and Giroud doesn't play like either. So which identity to we play with? Playing through lines to Werner? Or to feet to Tammy? Or wide to Chilwell and James so they can play 26 crosses in while Giroud is on the bench (Arsenal). 
Lampard may become a fantastic manager but it was never going to be at Chelsea. He needed to learn this lesson as a manager and he will need to identify his style of play. The only manager I don' really see a style of play for that is succeeding is Solsjkaer and even he, at least, is known to play defensive and on the counter. He also has established players all throughout the team that have multiple years of premier league experience to draw from. De Gea, Macguire, Wan Bissaka, Pogba, Fernandes (only 1 year but hes 26) Martial, Rashford etc. 
So, as much as I am saddened that Lampard is gone - it was necessary and inevitable. 
On a final note, he completely misused his new signings Werner and Havertz. Werner is not a winger to be used as such game after game. He's a central striker and he showed his speed and quality doing so earlier in the season. Once Pulisic got injured he moved Werner wide to accommodate Tammy which should have never happened.
Havertz is not a winger yet Lampard started him there on multiple occasions. He is a #10 or attacking midfielder and again he showed his quality early on with his runs from midfield carrying the team into the final third. Yet he gets relegated to the bench. I'm not saying he was brilliant, but if you give him a simple role behind the striker and protect him with your 2 other mids he would have been fine and could have been on track by now. Mason Mount could play a little deeper and Kante sits in front of the back four. 
Anyway, its unfortunate. Hopefully Tuechel brings an identity and doesn't tinker with the setup for the next few weeks. Choose a starting 11 and stick with it until they form a consistency as a group. 
 

I had a bad dream last night and saw Benteke in a Chelsea shirt. Missed from 5 yards...
 
 

Spot on, when Conte leaves, I'm hoping we will revert to a flat back 4 and Zouma will be there to fill the one of the central defender positions.