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Anyone who spends >£200m on players only to make the team worse is always going to get the sack.

It's not like they are on an upward trajectory either, they are getting worse and worse. The big money signings have gone from looking like good players who just needed to settle, to just looking terrible.

He's left himself with too big a squad, so chopping and changing every week, which often looks like he doesn't know what he wants to do and is just hoping if he tries enough different combinations eventually one of them will work.

It doesn't help that he was appointed on the back of one season in the championship, so doesn't have any track record to fall back on and give you confidence he's actually a good manager.

The situation with Giroud is also particularly baffling to me, although that's not a Lampard issue as it's been the same since he came to England. He has a great goalscoring record, but it always looks like the manager doesn't really want to play him. So he gets dropped as soon as he doesn't score and it's ages again before he gets another chance, he comes back in and does well, then is dropped as soon as he doesn't score and on and on.
 
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Classic: millions spent on too many new players and it takes too long to get the new team set up. So, the manager gets the pink slip.
We've seen Everton, West Ham, Fulham, Aston Villa throughout the last years go with the same tactics, opening the big purse and failing miserably to live up to their own expectations. Aston Villa somehow managed to stick with Smith and survived, (Hawkeye failure a great help), but otherwise, this has all been seen so many times before. It is really no surprise, Chelsea brought this on themselves.
 
Does he even decide transfers?

I doubt it. Abramovich has had his pet/statement signings over the years (Shevchenko, Torres, Crespo etc.) and they've never really worked and I suspect some of these, at least, have come from the board room. I think it's too early to judge whether the signing will be successful or not anyway:

1) it took Drogba a couple of seasons to get to grips with the Premier League.

2) Havertz and Ziyech have had injury/illness disrupted seasons so far.
 
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