General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

What about Emery beating United, Tottenham and Chelsea? 6 wins and 1 draw from 8 away games under Emery? Hardly the record of a flat track bully doing only what they’re supposed to.

The only top 8 team Emery hasn’t played under his Villa reign is Newcastle. Yes, there are tough games to come also, but that’s the nature of it, you play roughly half your games against both top 10/bottom 10 teams.

Bournemouth aside, I’m not sure I agree.

Chelsea, Everton, Palace, West Ham and Leicester are not contenders by any stretch, but 4 of those 5 were away from home, and I don’t think anyone considers Stamford Bridge, London Stadium, Selhurst Park and Goodison Park to be easy places to go.

It wasn’t great for Gerrard at Villa even before Beale left to be honest. He had a new manager bounce and not much more than that unfortunately.

liverpool’s last 5 games. Lost 3 Drew 1 Won 1 Conceded 6 Scored 8.

Klopp’s 7 goal victory over Utd is worthy of inclusion in that little run.

To go from Tuchel, to Potter, to Lampard is utterly laughable.

If they stay on this trajectory of downgrading their managers, I can’t wait to see who’s next. Could be Gary Neville or Chris Kamara at this rate. 😂

It's a lucky break for Frankie. He has an opportunity to rehabilitate himself, so to speak.

Real will be delighted with that. Not that they were too worried anyway I'de say.

Is Frank gonna be the new Avram Grant?? Does he know where some of the Chelsea bodies are buried or something (so to speak, not actual bodies in case anyone gets offended 😒)

Can't make sense of Lampard getting the gig on an interim basis. I understand it with teams such as Palace who need a motivator in the short term to keep them up, but Chelsea have nothing to lose by appointing a Nagelsman or Enrique now? You'd think they only have more to gain really as they would get additional time working with the squad and seeing who they want to keep/get rid of ahead of the real work in pre-season. Bizarre.

Initially Lampard did well working with the younger players when first appointed by Chelsea. Maybe they think he can do similar. Why is that these Tory boys always seem to land in their feet!

Better to hire lampard and wait for the right manager than hire someone thats not right for the sake of it. They could of avoided this of course by just keeping potter in til the end of the season and lining someone up behind the scenes.

Maybe frank wins them the champions league, he had got them to this stage i think when he was sacked last time so maybe a chance of retribution! They tend to do well in europe with caretaker managers.

It might be that either of those managers simply don't want the hassle of coming in now to take over driving a car crash that hasn't finished rolling over yet. Professionally, they might prefer to wait until they can get in at the end of the season and get a fresh start with a full pre-season to work with the squad, train the team in their ideas, etc. Chelsea's season is a total write-off anyway, so nothing lost by waiting for the right man.