Frank Lampard is set to be sacked by Chelsea less than 24 hours after the club’s FA Cup victory over Luton Town.
Confirmation could come as soon as today after Chelsea players were told not to report to the training ground until this afternoon.
Chelsea are currently on a poor run of form in the Premier League, losing five of their last eight games and well off the pace, struggling to get into the top four.
Lampard had not sought any reassurances over his future, and was confident he could find a solution to Chelsea’s current predicament.
Now 18 months into the three-year contract he was given when he was appointed in the summer of 2019, Lampard overachieved in his first season in charge, during which the club did not sign any players, by guiding the club to Champions League qualification and the final of the FA Cup.
It is believed that Julian Nagelsmann would be among Chelsea’s top targets to replace Lampard, but it appears unlikely that the German would leave RB Leipzig before the summer.
That would leave Abramovich with the task of either trying to find an interim coach or hiring an out-of-work coach such as former Paris Saint-Germain manager Thomas Tuchel or Max Allegri.
SOURCE: Telegraph
