Thursday, April 6, 2023, 5:19 p.m.
After a real casting in recent days, Chelsea already has a coach, at least until the end of the season. Frank Lampard, a ‘blue’ myth during his career as a player, returns to the club where he already lived a stage as coach between 2019 and 2021.
Despite the meetings with the agents of coaches like Luis Enrique and the information that placed others like Julian Nagelsmann or Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge, the club chaired by the American Todd Boehly has opted for a provisional solution until the end of the season through of a man of the house who will have the complicated mission of leading the London team in the Champions League quarterfinal tie against Real Madrid and trying to at least get them into European positions in the remaining nine days of the Premier League.
The ‘blue’ agenda continues with the big names for the bench that they have managed up to now, but for the moment Lampard takes the controls after the interregnum of the Spanish Bruno Saltor and the failure of Graham Potter, an expensive bet that failed to straighten the course Chelsea after the dismissal of Thomas Tuchel and take advantage of the million-dollar investment in the winter market.
Lampard, one of the best footballers in ‘blue’ history, already led the team from the bench after his first professional adventure at Derby County in the Championship (2018-19). His good performance, putting the Rams in the playoff for promotion to the Premier, opened the doors of Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2019. His results were acceptable in the 2019-20 campaign, with fourth place in the league and the eighth of final in the Champions League, but he was dismissed in the middle of the 2020-21 academic year. Then he has gone through Everton, where discreet results and the danger of relegation to the Liverpool team ended with his dismissal in January.
“We are delighted to welcome Frank back to Stamford Bridge. Frank is a member of the Premier League ‘Hall of Fame’ and a legend at this club. As we continue our thorough and exhaustive process for a permanent head coach, we want to provide the club and our fans with a clear and stable plan for the rest of the season,” Chelsea explained in the official statement announcing its new manager. .