Frank Lampard: Chelsea interim manager insists owners have ‘fantastic intentions’ to move club forward despite miserable season | Football News

May 12, 2023

Frank Lampard says the chaos at present surrounding Chelsea wouldn’t cease him from signing for the membership if he was nonetheless taking part in.

Chelsea have endured a depressing season however might be trying to end the marketing campaign on a relative excessive after ending a run of six straight defeats below Lampard with a 3-1 win at Bournemouth final Saturday.

The victory on the south coast was their first since March 11 when Graham Potter was nonetheless in cost and ended a wretched streak that had seen the staff rating solely 4 instances in 9 video games.

Chelsea are eleventh within the Premier League desk with 4 matches remaining however talking forward of Saturday’s go to of Nottingham Forest, Lampard insists there are “implausible intentions” to maneuver the membership ahead.

The Blues boss was requested in his pre-match press convention: “From the surface, Chelsea appears a large number. For those who have been a big-name participant now, on the high of your sport, would you signal?”

Lampard was categorical. “Completely I’d signal for Chelsea,” he stated. “There are numerous nice issues about this membership. ‘Type is short-term, high quality is everlasting’ is an efficient saying.

“I can see implausible intentions to take the membership ahead. Lots of huge golf equipment undergo this course of in a roundabout way, form or type, and the extra profitable you’ve got been, the extra headlines it will get if you come to that second.

“As a person participant undoubtedly I’d come right here as a result of it is an unbelievable membership. Generally it is good to be a part of the method that takes a membership the place you need it to go. I feel that is an attractive factor as properly. Reasonably than being parachuted in to someplace that is profitable.”

Lampard likened the present scenario to when he determined to first be part of Chelsea from West Ham in 2001.

“I signed after we have been a top-six or top-eight staff, and little did I do know that I might come out of it with trophies and medals in every single place.

“I used to be a part of an enormous course of that noticed this membership develop into probably the most profitable membership within the fashionable period of the Premier League.

“It is a big soccer membership. It doesn’t matter what occurs within the subsequent six months or two years or three years, that is at all times going to be a profitable soccer membership. I completely imagine that.”

Comply with dwell updates of Chelsea’s sport in opposition to Nottingham Forest throughout Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms on Saturday; kick-off 3pm.