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Chelsea News: Frank Lampard ready to let midfield duo leave despite transfer ban

Archie Blade
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Chelsea News: Frank Lampard ready to let midfield duo leave despite transfer ban

Chelsea News: Frank Lampard ready to let midfield duo leave despite transfer ban. The new manager feels that the squad needs to be trimmed.

Chelsea are currently banned from buying any player for the next two transfer windows. Meaning that the London side can’t make any addition to their squad until the next season. However, that hasn’t stopped new manager Frank Lampard from trimming his squad.

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Following their pre-season tour of Japan, Lampard has concluded that he has no requirement for midfielders Danny Drinkwater and Tiemoue Bakayoko. According to Dailymail, the pair have been told that they are not a part of the club’s plans going forward and have been told that they are free to leave.

The west Londoners were able to convert Mateo Kovacic’s loan into a permanent deal earlier this month, while they have also retained the services of midfielders N’Golo Kante, Jorginho, Ross Barkley and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who Lampard believes are all better than the £75million pair.

Danny Drinkwater joined Chelsea in 2017 for £35million. However, since then, he has only played 23 times for Chelsea. His only appearance last season was against Manchester City in the Community Shield last August. Bakayoko, joined the blues from Monaco the same summer as Drinkwater in a deal worth £40m. He was loaned out to AC Milan last season after struggling in the Premier League though.

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Archie Blade

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Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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