I Was Impossible To Excel As Chelsea Interim Manager – Lampard

I saw things that cannot be right at elite football during my spell as interim manager at Chelsea, Frank Lampard has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he really did not love working in that short period with the Blues because he could not really affect the usual standards he was used to at Chelsea football club.

Lampard added that it’s very hard to lay down an idea when you’ll be leaving soon for a permanent manager.

His words, “I saw things that I know cannot be right at elite football and that’s the truth. I didn’t love working in that short period because it’s hard to lay down an idea when you’re going to be leaving but Chelsea will always be a massive club in my life.

But when I understand the standards of Chelsea – in that period of time a lot of players were in transition of maybe leaving and some problems and motivation were a problem – in an interim period you can’t really affect that.

When you see the results of it, I’m experienced enough to know what’s right and what’s wrong and basic things in a training ground on a pitch. I didn’t learn anything tactical but it did reinforce my beliefs of all my experiences of when you know what a group is really fighting in the same direction – how strong that can be and when it’s not, it can be really challenging.

In my first week at Derby I was fresh, open-eyed to everything and there were a lot of things I needed to learn quickly. So I’ve certainly matured through that and seen that, and to be able to work at Derby in the Championship was a real development year for me.

To then go to Chelsea and work in the Champions League and get into the Champions League, through the league – those things are all great experiences, so you kind of layer them up hopefully.

Everton in a relegation battle and we stayed up, and even going back to Chelsea’s interim, it was a really tough time at the club and I saw a lot of things with people questioning like was it the right thing to do…I’m absolutely better for the experience of that, even though it was six or seven weeks.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.