https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jul/06/frank-lampard-dismisses-player-power-threat
The perception in the old days was that when Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba et al had lost faith in Luiz Felipe Scolari, André Villas-Boas or whoever, all it took was one call to the owner, Roman Abramovich, to trigger a change. Could the current squad not do that to Lampard if things went sour? “They won’t," he replies. Why not? “Well, we certainly never did."
Perhaps Abramovich truly is the untouchable iceman, even if his decision to turn to Lampard, the club’s record goalscorer, does contain a frisson of romance. It felt significant to hear Lampard say that he had not spoken to Abramovich at all during the recruitment process, only to his right-hand woman, the director Marina Granovskaia.
Lampard appears keen to embrace the creative tensions that have underscored the Abramovich era and he takes issue with the suggestion that the squad he has inherited lacks the characters of yesteryear. “It’s far too easy to say that from the outside," Lampard says. “I certainly wouldn’t say there isn’t player power or personality when you talk about players like David Luiz or [César] Azpilicueta; [N’Golo] Kanté, who won the World Cup a year ago; Jorginho coming into the club [last summer]; [Olivier] Giroud, who won the World Cup; Willian.
“Players show their personalities in different ways. You don’t have to have John Terry and Didier Drogba, who were obvious powerful personalities and players. You can have players who might look slight and might have different ways about them that can be powerful. I want them to promote that. I want the players to own it.
“There’s nothing wrong with an open club. The modern club is not the dictatorship of the manager, who sees everything and, if someone speaks differently, [takes it badly]. I don’t have an ego as in [being so naive as to think that] there will not be conversations going on in a club the size of Chelsea. What I can control, I will control and that is driving training every day."
Nicely put.
Frank addressing every (possible) situation astutely thus far
Capacity to manage and be empathetic towards players, on a player & human-level will stand him in good stead going forward.
Understands the mental & emotional aspect well.
Re. Player power
posted on 10/7/19
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 3 days, 1 hour ago
Fat Frank
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Jeezus...chiding from fackin loserspuds ..has it come to that
posted on 10/7/19
Fancy having Eric Dier as your favourite player...this encapsulates the scutter $puds on here in a nutshell...
posted on 10/7/19
And who let MAF out of secure housing
posted on 11/7/19
How did Fat Frank get on against Bohemians?
posted on 11/7/19
The academy boys get a run out a Maf smells blood!!
Most of that 22 will be back at Cobham by the time we play the next game!
Being serious, I would imagine the point of last nights exercise will to to see if there are any potential candidates for the 1st team squad and who'll be sent on loan!
posted on 11/7/19
comment by Tory Requiem (U21957)
posted 57 minutes ago
How did Fat Frank get on against Bohemians?
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Shut it saan' you pikeymuppet
posted on 11/7/19
by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 hours, 42 minutes ago
The academy boys get a run out a Maf smells blood!!
Most of that 22 will be back at Cobham by the time we play the next game!
Being serious, I would imagine the point of last nights exercise will to to see if there are any potential candidates for the 1st team squad and who'll be sent on loan!
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Batshuauy, Azpi, Pedro, Drinkwater, zappacoasta, Zuma etc who played yesterday....send them all on loan
posted on 11/7/19
comment by Tory Requiem (U21957)
posted 7 minutes ago
by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 hours, 42 minutes ago
The academy boys get a run out a Maf smells blood!!
Most of that 22 will be back at Cobham by the time we play the next game!
Being serious, I would imagine the point of last nights exercise will to to see if there are any potential candidates for the 1st team squad and who'll be sent on loan!
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Batshuauy, Azpi, Pedro, Drinkwater, zappacoasta, Zuma etc who played yesterday....send them all on loan
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Four in one half with kids and only Two 2nd half!
And four of them are fighting for their careers!
Come on Maf - must do better!
Mind you, they'd probably all get in the Wet Spam 1st eleven!
posted on 11/7/19
Maybe or maybe not. But, they should stay at Chelsea for few more years to draw their pensions...
If the ban extends then that is what going to happen 😃😃😃
posted on 11/7/19
Kids get older!