Thanks but no Franks LAMPS SAYS NOR WAY
FRANK LAMPARD wants to get back into management – but
Norwich was too much
them to the play-offs before getting of a risk.
the Chelsea job, where he actually did The former Chelsea boss a great job despite his critics. knows his next job must be He got the Blues back into the right to help him rejoin Champions League places while contending England’s Golden Generation with a transfer ban and took of blossoming managers. them to an FA Cup Final. Steven Gerrard has taken So Lampard must have been hoping over at Aston Villa and Wayne for a bigger club, a better opportunity Rooney is defying the odds at and yet his willingness to be interviewed crisis club Derby County. by Norwich shows that he was Lampard is keen to get back interested in the challenge. into management 10 months He was in the frame for previous after being sacked by Chelsea. jobs like Crystal Palace and Newcastle But it means putting his reputation but neither came particularly close. back on the line – and a wrong Now he has pulled out of the running choice could wreck his career. for Norwich.
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They are a terrific club with a good in the frame for a better opportunity
supporter base and the owners have a having done so well at Chelsea. But it
long-term plan. Yet whoever succeeds now appears he will have to work his
Daniel Farke will inherit a club fighting way back up to the top of management
for their Premier League lives. again and take it step by step.
It is a pretty thankless task and one But he does not need this job. He which could quickly undo Lampard’s was a hugely successful player and has previous good work at both Derby and a wonderful lifestyle, one he won’t Chelsea, where he established himself want to change in a hurry. as one of English football’s brightest And that is still the biggest obstacle young managers. in his return to management. The job He did well at Derby and guided and opportunity has to be just right.