For many years, Chelsea Football Club has been like a Hollywood film. Glitz, glamour, money, success, a story where a mysterious man from Russia arrives to London to turn a moderately successful and popular club into a worldwide powerhouse. It’s a blockbuster, isn’t it? But there are different movies in Hollywood.Chelsea Football Club of today is like one of those parody movies: Scary Movie, Disaster Movie or Naked Gun. Chelsea is a parody of Chelsea. A caricature. A poorly-executed impression by a look-alike. Chelsea is a comedy.Lampard’s horror at Chelsea continues, as Liverpool come from behind to knock the HammersFrank Lampard’s career of a Premier League manager is as good as over. He lasted a long time as a player at the highest level, but can you see him getting a job at a top club again? His every return to Stamford Bridge seems to be even more abysmal than the last. The home defeat to Brentford on Wednesday night makes it five losses in as many games. Counting the end of his depressing stint in charge of Everton, the former England midfielder has now overseen nine losses in his last ten games. Honestly, Frank, what is going on?This poor run has led to question marks over whether Lampard was wise in jumping at this opportunity to return to management and whether his reputation within the game as a manager is being further damaged with each passing defeat.”I’m not concerned with what people on the outside think because I don’t think they ever understand the conditions of what you’re working with. We have to keep working for it, and we haven’t got it yet. I’m not concerned. I took it on knowing the jeopardy of what it might be but I’m very proud to manage here.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7208879##Chelsea are winless in their last eight matches in all competitions (two draws and five defeats). They last had a longer winless run between October and December 1993 (11 games), which included a run of six straight defeats. It’s the last time they lost five or more consecutive matches. Lampard must ensure they don’t equal the three-decade-old record when they make the short trip to face Arsenal on Tuesday.The Blues have scored only 30 in 32 league games this season and cannot wait for this miserable first season of the new era to end. Besides, their home form is worrying. Chelsea have failed to score at home for the seventh time in the Premier League this season – the most in a single campaign in the competition. They haven’t won at Stamford Bridge in the last five games and have lost six home matches in the Premier League this season. It’s the most home losses since they suffered seven in the 1994/95 season.Frank Lampard understands the #Chelsea fans’ frustration after fifth successive loss… pic.twitter.com/rq9KkidXuJ— Talk Chelsea (@talkchelsea) April 27, 2023 The stats are terrible to look at – and it makes them even more difficult to digest when you consider how much money the club has invested into signing new players since American owner Todd Boehly rode into west London. Big-money signings were made all over the pitch – but somehow, Chelsea are still without a recognised goalscorer, a true striker capable of holding off Premier League defenders. The situation suggests that many players were signed without a clear plan. The fact that Chelsea fielded Raheem Sterling and Conor Gallagher in attack against Brentford confirms that claim. It’s no wonder the Blues are short on goals!Drogba no longer recognises Chelsea – but Lampard can’t do anything to make things rightThe club will have to offload quite a few players to get some money in and reduce the huge wage bill if they want to comply with the Financial Fair Play rules and avoid being in the same boat as Barcelona and Juventus. There are senior players – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech and Ruben Loftus-Cheek all named on the bench against Brentford, on huge wages on the outside watching in. But who would take them? Movies are made in Hollywood about winners and losers. People love rags-to-riches stories. But would you buy a ticket to see a dark comedy about the club that went from being the UEFA Champions League winner to Premier League’s 11th-placed team in less than two years?
