It’s laughable that the worst performers cost astronomical fees and have keyboard warriors writing essays on why they aren’t good enough or what everyone but them is doing wrong.

I don’t rate one dimensional players, I don’t care if you do. If the player can’t do the fundamentals of his position at a world class level, he should not play.

If the entire team HAS to be structured for one or two players to look somewhat competent, they’re bad players.

Always seeing people talk about Chelsea in its prime, when Lamps/Drogba/Terry/Ballack were running riot. Who was the Regista? Who was the distributing GK? The secondary ball progressor through dribbling? A captain who doesn’t use his mouth?

Lampard needs to overhaul the spine.

Good thing is, Lampard doesn’t rate the buzzwords and false narratives football twitter engulfs itself in. Football is a simple game made complex by those who haven’t a clue. Basic principles like midfielders need to be able to tackle and shut down transitions are abandoned by FT