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Blues manager refutes new signings will have a disturbing effect on the harmony of his group training at Cobham
Frank Lampard will treat each Chelsea player differently if they are concerned about the magnitude of his £ 200 million ($ 252 million) recruiting drive this summer.
Having already signed six players, the scale of ambition in this transfer window has led some to compare it to the summer of 2003, when José Mourinho’s team forever changed the transfer market with a series of big deals.
The expense was funded after the inauguration of Roman Abramovich, who transformed the club overnight into one that could compete to win the Premier League and the Champions League.
Lampard came before Abramovich in a move from West Ham in 2001. He then struggled to maintain his position on the team after those transfers and hopes that, having made eight homegrown debuts last season, they will step up like he did. did he. .
“Claudio Ranieri didn’t say anything that I remember, to be honest,” Lampard told reporters at Zoom. “In these things, the coach has options to say things to the players. I understand him more than ever now that I’m in that job.
“Sometimes you feel in a position to talk to the players depending on their personality, other times not. 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.
“It should lift the team. Players with the right mindset will improve their game, make friends with the player, make him feel welcome, and try to work within the team to the best of their ability with them. Hopefully, you will see elevated levels at all times.” . the escuadron.
“I think it is something that did happen in those times. I was a young player, so was John (Terry), as were others in the group and I think the core of young players in that group reacted and we managed to form a good group in the future.
“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 and 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.
“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.
All six deals have seen Chelsea bring in Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen, Timo Werner from RB Leipzig, Hakim Ziyech from Ajax, Thiago Silva from PSG and Malang Sarr from Nice.
That led Lampard to argue that his picks won’t necessarily be based on how much a player costs, but he feels that transfers will improve the quality of his options.
“I’m not stupid, we bring players to improve the team to the level we feel we brought,” he added. “Then you want them to play.
“You brought them in to improve, so you want them to play regular games, but there’s never a point where you start siding with the players on how long they’ve been here or how much they cost.
“Those are not the rules and no one would expect that. We just tried to create a way for players to enter at such a level to give us a high level of performance. That is a daily battle for all of us.”
With Mateo Kovacic suspended before Monday’s opener against Brighton, Mason Mount is likely to start, but reports in Germany have indicated that he had been frustrated by the club’s decision to sign Havertz this summer.
Lampard has already refuted the claims and went on to say that Mount has set an example on how to deal with increased competition.
“With Mason, he communicates in the way he trains every day,” he added. “When the last two days we have trained with these new players that everyone is very excited and focused on at the moment, I have focused on all the squads at all times.
“The way Mason has trained over the last few days, having returned with England, shows me when I talk about the way the players react positively and improve their game, Mason is one of them and that’s what I want. of all the boys. “
