He Chelsea announced on Thursday the signing of Frank Lampard as coach until the end of the season, when the English team will sign a new permanent coach, with Julian Nagelsman and Luis Enrique on schedule.
The selection of the Englishman, who has been directed to the ‘Blues’ between July 2019 and January 2021, has emerged at the last minute due to the need to make a decision after Sunday’s dismissal Graham Potter and the desire to devote enough time and study the best permanent coach for the future, including Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique as preferred options.
lampardIn this way, he returned to the club where he played for a decade as a footballer and he directed after the period of Maurizio Sarri and before the Thomas Tuchel. The Englishman was sacked in January 2021 due to poor results and replaced by Tuchel, who won the Champions League in the same season.
Among his greatest achievements is the development of young soccer players such as Mason Mountwhom I already knew from Derby County and whom, despite criticisms that qualified him as “the right eye of Lampard”gave confidence and became a regular starter for Chelsea.
“We are delighted to welcome Frank at Stamford Bridge. He is a legend of this club. While we continue our exhaustive search for a manager, we want to provide the club and the fans with a solid plan for the rest of the season,” the owners said in a statement.
lampard He has not worked since he was fired from everton, where he spent a year, from January 2022 to January 2023, without managing to remove the team from the bottom of the table.
Will be replaced by an English coach Bruno Saltorwho led Chelsea against the Liverpool on an interim basis following the departure of Graham Potter, and will remain until the summer, when the club hires a new permanent manager.
Julian Nagelsmann, recently fired from Bayern Munich and well connected as Laurence Stewart, sports director of Chelsea with him at RB Leipzig, and Luis Enrique, who met with Chelsea’s management in London, is the best place.
lampard He brings some stability, knows a large part of the squad, and is an important figure of authority so that the team does not let go for the rest of the season, especially in the Champions League tie against Real Madrid.
Source: La Verdad
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