With Sunday's draw against Newcastle, a disappointing Chelsea season came to an end and the Blues wasted little time in signalling a new era with the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino the following day. However, the west London side will have to wait until he starts full-time.
Now, is the time to set things up for Pochettino to ensure he has a platform to help Chelsea flourish in 2023/24 and to solve problems that emerged in 2022/23 and to solve others that couldn't be fixed. It's possible to identify a litany of errors, and to direct blame in multiple directions but what matters now is overcoming them.
There is little time to work until Pochettino officially takes charge and an even shorter period until the transfer window opens and it is there the club's work must start. Lampard felt comfortable to list a number of issues in his final press conference as caretaker manager, with both the size of the squad and the number of players with heads turned near the top of the list.
