Frank Lampard faces losing his job if he cannot revive Chelsea's top-four aspirations as the club's hierarchy begin to lose patience.
As Sportsmail revealed on January 5, the Blues do not want to make any snap decisions over the future of their club legend despite a dreadful run that has seen them lose five of their previous eight games.
There remains a will to give Lampard an opportunity to arrest the club's dreadful form despite the emphatic nature of their latest loss to Leicester.
There is an acknowledgement that Lampard worked wonders to get Chelsea into the Champions League last season and still view him as a very promising young manager.