Frank Lampard has been sacked by Chelsea after the club's torrid run of five defeats in their last eight Premier League games.
The rot that has set in this season sees the Stamford Bridge outfit sitting in ninth spot - and former PSG boss Thomas Tuchel is expected to be hired imminently.
Here, Sportsmail's DANIEL MATTHEWS takes a look at where it all went wrong for Lampard in his dream job...
TRANSFER SPLURGE
It was a strange quirk of Lampard’s spell that his fortunes travelled in opposite directions to Chelsea’s power in the transfer market.