Lampard leads Chelsea until the end of the season
According to news expert Fabrizio Romano, after being agreed by the American owners, Chelsea signed a short-term contract with Lampard. The decision to appoint the 44-year-old military leader will be announced by the London club today.
According to The Times, Lampard will start working for Chelsea today, when he arrives at the Cobham training ground to direct the training session with the whole team to prepare for the away game of Wolves on Saturday 8/4.
Ashley Cole - another former Chelsea player, Lampard's teammate in the 2012 Champions League generation, and Joe Edwards will join the new coaching staff at Stamford Bridge. The duo worked as assistants to Lampard when he led Everton from January 2022 to January 2023.
The Sun newspaper assessed that the appointment of Lampard as interim manager was the right step for Chelsea, as they needed an experienced coach to lead the team for the rest of the season, including two Real Madrid matches in the quarter-finals. Champions League mid-month. Lampard, with 13 years of service to Chelsea as a player - from 2001 to 2014, is also expected to have enough prestige to stabilize the dressing room and win back support from fans who are disgruntled by his poor performance. under coach Graham Potter.
The fact that Lampard works temporarily until the end of the season also gives the Chelsea leadership more time to search and negotiate to appoint a new head coach. Currently, former Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann and former Spain coach Luis Enrique are the two brightest candidates, sitting in the hot seat left by Potter.
Lampard is also unfamiliar with the job at Chelsea, having worked as the team's head coach for a year and a half, from July 2019 to January 2021. In the 2019-2020 season, he was highly appreciated when he introduced many young players, helping Chelsea finish fourth in the English Premier League, finish second in the FA Cup and enter the eighth round of the Champions League in the context of the team being sold. player. Going into the 2020-2021 season, Lampard's Chelsea got off to a strong start, but winning just two of eight mid-season games and falling to ninth in the Premier League caused Lampard to be sacked. However, with the personnel background he left behind, his successor Thomas Tuchel helped Chelsea win the Champions League.
Some young players promoted by Lampard to the Chelsea first team from the summer of 2019 are still the mainstays of the team such as right-back Reece James, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mason Mount...
In a year and a half as Chelsea head coach, Lampard led the team 84 matches, won 44, reached a rate of 52.4%, drew 17 and lost 23 matches.
