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Frank Lampard can insist that he faced a lot of pressure at work last season, but surely that was nothing compared to the pressures he is about to face in his second season, both from the top brass and from the fans, after the club summer spending spree. and expressed his ambition not to be happy with another top four result.
The Chelsea legend, of course, is no stranger to these kinds of situations, although he has largely experienced them from a different perspective. Fortunately, that gives him an idea of what his players must do to help him (and the team) navigate the new reality.
“I hope you are excited about the challenge of playing for this team this year. I think we are looking for a story here. I don’t see it in those direct competitive situations that we are trying to find.
“In a team today, much more than 17 years ago when we spoke before, you need to have flexibility, you need to have competition. I don’t think we need to find direct battles at this point in the season, no. “
Just as there is pressure on the head coach to get results, there is pressure on the players to perform. As a player, Lampard thrived in such situations. Now you need your players to do it too, while you find the right way to motivate each of them.
“In these things, the coach has options to say things to the players. I understand it more than ever now that I’m in that job. Sometimes you feel in a position to talk to players based on their personality, other times you don’t. In my case, I saw it as a challenge. I mentioned that before that, when players come in to add to the team, they may be in positions similar to yours or not, but that elevates the team.
“I should lift the team. Players with the right mindset will improve their game, befriend the player, make him feel welcome, and try to work within the team as best they can with him. Hopefully, you will see elevated levels throughout the team. “
It’s going to be a difficult balance to design. Not everyone can play all the time. There are a lot of new faces, and those new faces aren’t here just to fill in numbers in training. (Fortunately). As we saw with the nonsensical stories of Mount (after Havertz’s arrival) and Abraham (after Werner’s arrival), the situation is ripe for speculation, discord, and media attention, as well as the actual fight, especially if things go wrong. .
“The team must be flexible. I often talk about players who can play in a variety of different positions, which is always great for the coach. I just see it as a group that hopefully is stronger than last year. And the players try to give their all for the team game after game.
“I’m not stupid; we bring players to improve the team to the level we think we bring, so you want them to play. He brought them in for the better, so he wants them to play regular games, but there’s never a point where he really starts siding with players on how long they’ve been here or how much they cost.
“Those are not the rules and nobody would expect that. We just try to create a way for players to enter at a level that gives us a high level of performance. That is a daily battle for all of us. “
-Frank Lampard; source: Goal
So there’s no pressure, right, Frank?
