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As was widely noted in the hours after news first broke of his return, hiring Frank Lampard was the least egregiously bad move Chelsea could have made given the circumstances they had put themselves in. A complete novice of a head coach in Bruno Saltor gave every impression in his media appearances that he would find the prospect of leading a team out at the Santiago Bernabeu to be about as pleasurable as carrying out open heart surgery on himself. Rushing to get a permanent replacement in by Tuesday ran the risk of repeating the mistakes made in the minutes after Thomas Tuchel was sacked.
Handing Graham Potter’s reigns to Lampard can win over a mutinous fanbase and at least ensures that the coaching staff that will face Real Madrid next week are not complete Champions League novices. It might even have some supporters, players and staff dreaming that this season can end in the same baffling fashion as it did 11 years ago with a caretaker manager lifting the European Cup to the heavens. Stranger things have happened this season, not least Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali committing €100 million to Mykhailo Mudryk.
Lampard might be the right choice for the current circumstances, the issue at hand for Chelsea is how on earth they have got to a step where their logical next one is to appoint a manager who a few months ago was ushering Everton towards the River Styx? The root of so much chaos can be traced back to the decision to sack Thomas Tuchel in September; ownership may have phrased that as a carefully considered response but had they not signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for their soon-to-be departed head coach a few days earlier?
Ever since there has been an impulsiveness to the way in which Chelsea manage themselves. The proliferation of sporting executives and forwards whose best position is to the left of the central striker they haven’t got around to buying yet suggests a hierarchy that…
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