Chelsea legend Frank Lampard blamed for Antonio Rudiger transfer blow: ‘He got completely binned’

Arsenal hero Paul Merson and ex-Chelsea boss Frank Lampard (Photos: Sky Sports activities/Getty)

Arsenal legend Paul Merson believes Frank Lampard is accountable for Antonio Rudiger’s imminent Chelsea exit.

Germany defender Rudiger is ready to depart the Blues on the finish of the season after agreeing a four-year take care of Spanish champions Actual Madrid.

Since signing from Roma in 2017, Rudiger has made greater than 200 appearances for Chelsea and helped the Premier League giants win the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and Membership World Cup.

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel wished Rudiger to signal a contract extension in west London however the 29-year-old rejected a proposal of greater than £200,000-a-week in favour of a transfer to the Bernabeu.

Merson says Rudiger’s departure will ‘break hearts’ at Chelsea and has blamed Blues legend Lampard for the switch blow.

Rudiger fell out of favour throughout Lampard’s tenure as supervisor and Merson reckons the German determined he would transfer on when his contract expires after being ‘fully binned’ by his former boss.

‘Shedding Antonio Rudiger to Actual Madrid goes to interrupt Chelsea’s coronary heart – however his thoughts was made up 18 months in the past with the way in which he was handled by Frank Lampard,’ Merson instructed Sky Sports activities.

Blues defender Antonio Rudiger is ready to affix Actual Madrid (Image: Getty)

‘He acquired fully binned out the staff by Lampard and I believe that left an enduring impact on Rudiger. That’s when he determined that he’s not signing a brand new contract.

‘Years in the past, if Actual Madrid and Barcelona got here calling you then went. I don’t see that anymore.

‘Chelsea are nearly as good as Actual Madrid, you'll be able to see that within the Champions League quarter-final. The Blues had a nasty 45 minutes however aside from that they had been a far superior staff to Actual Madrid.

‘Now Chelsea are letting a £70m-80m defender go on a free switch and so they’re going to deliver somebody in for £70m in that can be nowhere nearly as good as Rudiger.

‘They’re going to need to strengthen in defence as Rudiger and Andreas Christensen are going to depart. I like Trevoh Chalobah however they play three on the again so that they’ll want to usher in one other defender.’

Rudiger will make his remaining Chelsea look and bid farewell to the membership on the ultimate day of the season when Tuchel’s aspect host Watford.

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