<p>Thomas Tuchel is set to be named Chelsea manager on Tuesday several years after he first spoke with the Premier League giants about the job.</p>.<p>The 47-year-old German replaces the sacked Frank Lampard and will be the 15th change of manager since Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.</p>.<p>Tuchel follows some noteworthy predecessors in Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, who have also fallen foul of Abramovich in the past -- the Italian was fired a season after delivering the domestic double.</p>.<p>Lampard, Chelsea's record goalscorer, discovered that sentiment is not part of Abramovich's DNA as he dispensed with the Englishman on Monday after just 18 months in charge.</p>.<p>The enigmatic Russian did break with tradition in commenting on the sacking, sugar-coating the brutality of the firing.</p>.<p>"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him," said Abramovich.</p>.<p>"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics."</p>.<p>Whilst Lampard expressed his disappointment, Tuchel's task will be to get the best out of the £200 million ($300 million) of talent that was brought in in the close season, including young German attackers Timo Werner and Kai Havertz.</p>.<p>Tuchel is well-versed in the school of hard knocks of being a manager having been sent packing at the end of December despite guiding Paris Saint-Germain to the Champions League final just four months earlier.</p>.<p>His falling out with PSG sporting director Leonardo played a large part in that and his habit of fractious relations with his employers does not bode well for his prospects at a club with such a famously impatient owner.</p>.<p>He will need to maintain good relations with the all-powerful director Marina Granovskaia if he too is not to suffer the same fate as his predecessors.</p>.<p>"Tuchel will be exposed to exactly the same rules as Frank," said Lampard's former England team-mate Gary Neville.</p>.<p>"We'll be talking about him being let go in the next 18 months to two years, I'm pretty sure of that."</p>.<p>Tuchel's ambition has always been to manage a Premier League club, like fellow his German and also one of his predecessors as Borussia Dortmund coach, Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp.</p>.<p>He did hold talks with Chelsea over replacing Antonio Conte after he left Dortmund in 2017 but while he impressed Granovskaia he ended up at PSG.</p>.<p>Lampard had declared himself to be a fighter last Friday but his words fell on deaf ears in the boardroom as they fired him the day after a FA Cup win over Championship side Luton.</p>.<p>"I am disappointed not to have had the time this season to take the club forward and bring it to the next level," said Lampard.</p>.<p>However, despite a fourth-place finish last season with a largely young side other statistics point to why Abramovich decided to cut him loose.</p>.<p>Lampard's Premier League points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest for any Chelsea manager since Abramovich arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2003.</p>.<p>Tuchel will be hard-pressed to have any impact prior to the Premier League game with Wolves on Wednesday but he will at least have a first-hand view of his players.</p>.<p>The Chelsea board will hope that he will be able to engineer far better performances out of his compatriots Havertz and Werner.</p>.<p>The latter in particular has gone off the boil and looked nothing like a £52 million striker, with a missed penalty in the FA Cup win against Luton on Sunday summing up his lack of confidence. Werner reacted by pulling up his shirt and burying his head in it -- reflecting the general feeling in the team.</p>.<p>If Tuchel succeeds in quickly restoring the vim in the squad he will have rescued something from the season and put them on the right path at least.</p>.<p>Rangers manager Steven Gerrard said he expected Lampard, who like him was part of the so-called golden generation of England footballers, to bounce back.</p>.<p>However, former Liverpool captain Gerrard said he felt the Chelsea board should have given Lampard more time.</p>.<p>"I did think it was an opportunity for Chelsea to really reach out and support him during this tough period rather than do what they have done," said Gerrard.</p>.<p>"But Chelsea have got history for that so it was no surprise."</p>
<p>Thomas Tuchel is set to be named Chelsea manager on Tuesday several years after he first spoke with the Premier League giants about the job.</p>.<p>The 47-year-old German replaces the sacked Frank Lampard and will be the 15th change of manager since Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.</p>.<p>Tuchel follows some noteworthy predecessors in Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, who have also fallen foul of Abramovich in the past -- the Italian was fired a season after delivering the domestic double.</p>.<p>Lampard, Chelsea's record goalscorer, discovered that sentiment is not part of Abramovich's DNA as he dispensed with the Englishman on Monday after just 18 months in charge.</p>.<p>The enigmatic Russian did break with tradition in commenting on the sacking, sugar-coating the brutality of the firing.</p>.<p>"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him," said Abramovich.</p>.<p>"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics."</p>.<p>Whilst Lampard expressed his disappointment, Tuchel's task will be to get the best out of the £200 million ($300 million) of talent that was brought in in the close season, including young German attackers Timo Werner and Kai Havertz.</p>.<p>Tuchel is well-versed in the school of hard knocks of being a manager having been sent packing at the end of December despite guiding Paris Saint-Germain to the Champions League final just four months earlier.</p>.<p>His falling out with PSG sporting director Leonardo played a large part in that and his habit of fractious relations with his employers does not bode well for his prospects at a club with such a famously impatient owner.</p>.<p>He will need to maintain good relations with the all-powerful director Marina Granovskaia if he too is not to suffer the same fate as his predecessors.</p>.<p>"Tuchel will be exposed to exactly the same rules as Frank," said Lampard's former England team-mate Gary Neville.</p>.<p>"We'll be talking about him being let go in the next 18 months to two years, I'm pretty sure of that."</p>.<p>Tuchel's ambition has always been to manage a Premier League club, like fellow his German and also one of his predecessors as Borussia Dortmund coach, Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp.</p>.<p>He did hold talks with Chelsea over replacing Antonio Conte after he left Dortmund in 2017 but while he impressed Granovskaia he ended up at PSG.</p>.<p>Lampard had declared himself to be a fighter last Friday but his words fell on deaf ears in the boardroom as they fired him the day after a FA Cup win over Championship side Luton.</p>.<p>"I am disappointed not to have had the time this season to take the club forward and bring it to the next level," said Lampard.</p>.<p>However, despite a fourth-place finish last season with a largely young side other statistics point to why Abramovich decided to cut him loose.</p>.<p>Lampard's Premier League points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest for any Chelsea manager since Abramovich arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2003.</p>.<p>Tuchel will be hard-pressed to have any impact prior to the Premier League game with Wolves on Wednesday but he will at least have a first-hand view of his players.</p>.<p>The Chelsea board will hope that he will be able to engineer far better performances out of his compatriots Havertz and Werner.</p>.<p>The latter in particular has gone off the boil and looked nothing like a £52 million striker, with a missed penalty in the FA Cup win against Luton on Sunday summing up his lack of confidence. Werner reacted by pulling up his shirt and burying his head in it -- reflecting the general feeling in the team.</p>.<p>If Tuchel succeeds in quickly restoring the vim in the squad he will have rescued something from the season and put them on the right path at least.</p>.<p>Rangers manager Steven Gerrard said he expected Lampard, who like him was part of the so-called golden generation of England footballers, to bounce back.</p>.<p>However, former Liverpool captain Gerrard said he felt the Chelsea board should have given Lampard more time.</p>.<p>"I did think it was an opportunity for Chelsea to really reach out and support him during this tough period rather than do what they have done," said Gerrard.</p>.<p>"But Chelsea have got history for that so it was no surprise."</p>