According to Duncan Castles, Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia may encourage Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to sack Chelsea boss Frank Lampard if Chelsea’s poor form continues.
Lampard and Granovskaia are said to have been at loggerheads in January over potential new signings.
“Roman Abramovich usually gets twitchy fingers when things start to go wrong, he’s not a man to tolerate bad results for very long,” Castles said on the Transfer Window podcast.
“I think Chelsea are on eight home defeats this season already, which is a remarkable number given how strong they’ve been at the Bridge in past years.
“I think that the individual that Lampard has to be most worried about is Marina Granovskaia.
“There was essentially a conflict between Granovskaia and Lampard over the January transfer market when Chelsea had a lot of money available to them to spend.
“When Lampard wanted reinforcements, when Granovskaia wanted to spend money on the team and was working on certain deals that Lampard wasn’t happy with, you ended up in this stand off where nobody came into the club.