Just spent 1 hour looking at Lopetegui at Sevilla(& Madrid) & here& #39;s the short version:

Firstly the false narrative here is that Lopetegui has fast tracked Sevilla into this tactical machine which clearly is absolute bollocks because without VAR, Lopetegui would be unemployed. https://twitter.com/P63hMyL3Sy3rHAT/status/1318932998146850820">https://twitter.com/P63hMyL3S...

I personally rate Lopetegui but even with 10+ new signings last year, Lopetegui didn& #39;t start from scratch(like Conte at Chelsea). His squad was built on a core of experienced players who understand the system like Banega(now Rakitic who& #39;s practically not a new signing)

But that& #39;s a different story to Madrid when he walked into a new team that played a different brand of football & had just lost their best player(CR7). Madrid couldn& #39;t score or defend, went on the worst drought since 2004, had BARCELONA fans chanting "Lopetegui please stay".

Contrast that to Lampard who albeit isn& #39;t as good a manager but has had to start from scratch twice, last year with a youth team, this year with literally a new squad. The argument is Lopetegui didn& #39;t have time at Madrid (understandably) but how& #39;s that different to Lampard?

Lopetegui (Monchi) have practically assembled a squad that already know the system, Lampard has Zouma, Azpi, etc doing counterpress (obviously there& #39;s other game preparation issues) but this Chelsea squad is also severely inexperienced + half of them are playing in a new league.

Fast forward a season later & Barcelona are celebrating 1-1 draws with Sevilla (just in case you thought Chelsea fans are deluded, we& #39;re not).

Hope this helps.