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Jamie Carragher admits that he would be harsher on his criticism if another manager were responsible for Chelsea’s downfall, but he refused to increase the pressure on Frank Lampard and instead highlighted a possible lack of experience at the top level.
Chelsea’s fifth Premier League loss of the season was confirmed 45 minutes into Sunday’s clash with Manchester City, when a three-goal lead at halftime laid the foundation for a sweeping 3-1 away win at Stamford Bridge.
A streak of just one win in six league games has left Chelsea seven points behind leaders Liverpool after having played one more game, and has seen Lampard’s position under intense scrutiny after recording the most points per game average. under any coach of the Roman Abramovich era. .
Jamie Carragher called Chelsea “mentally fragile” following the form of their loss to City, and the Sky sports Experts insisted that Lampard should be compared to those who preceded him.
Is it fair to compare Frank with his predecessors?
“Of course it’s fair, he’s the Chelsea manager,” Carragher said. Monday night football. “Nobody knows Chelsea Football Club, and how ruthless they are to the coaches, more than Frank Lampard.
“Having played with Frank, they asked us if we would be more critical of the situation if he were a different coach. They would be right, I would be much more critical of the coaches on that list. Not because I played Frank Lampard but because I don’t expect him to win the Premier League nor the Champions League [this season].
“The other coaches who came with resumes, years of experience, having won the big trophies – José Mourinho, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti, all great coaches – I would be more critical of them.”
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Is Lampard part of an inexperienced generation?
With Lampard among a new generation of managers who have secured a high-profile position early in their careers, Carragher questioned whether managers were landing top positions before they had gained enough experience to tackle the position.
“I think of the players of my generation, I think of myself … I see Jurgen Klopp on the bench, hitting The Kop with his fist when Liverpool have won, and I want to be him, he looks amazing.”
“Frank Lampard wants to be José Mourinho, John Terry wants to be José Mourinho, I’m sure Thierry Henry looks at Arsene Wenger and thinks, ‘I’d love to do that, I could do that.’
“What I would say about the players of my generation, and why I’m an expert, is that I want to be Jurgen Klopp managing Liverpool, but I don’t want to go to Mainz for seven years and move up. That’s what I’m talking to Frank about. In fact I admire the work you did last year and [after the Manchester City defeat] I admired your interview.
“Frank got an important job after 12 months in Derby, the experience is not there. He didn’t get the job because he was a great coach, he got it thanks to Chelsea and Frank Lampard.
“Gary Neville went to Valencia, great job, how could he say no? Thierry Henry went to Monaco. How could Frank say no to Chelsea? But they don’t have that experience to lean on, they haven’t learned the advantages “. and discharge from management and coaching.
“Steven Gerrard has gone to Rangers and is doing very well and it looks like they could win the title this season. But would you want Steven Gerrard to be Liverpool’s manager with no more experience? Possibly not.
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Jamie Carragher and Paul Ince discuss Frank Lampard’s position at Chelsea and debate whether the new generation of managers has enough experience before they take on the top management positions.
“I think when you get those really important jobs and you don’t have that experience, you have nothing to turn to when times are tough, as they will be now for the next few weeks for Frank.
“Even the confidence and faith in how you think your team should play [will be questioned]. People have ideas when it comes to coaching or managing how their team should play, but they don’t know it until they do it and are confident that it works.
“That’s why I’m not going into town with Frank Lampard right now. It’s not that I don’t know football, it’s just that they don’t have the experience to lean on.
“I would love Frank Lampard in Chelsea, Steven Gerrard in Liverpool, Thierry Henry in those jobs 10 years from now so they can really show themselves, with that experience that they have built up, they have that confidence and they are ready.”
Ince: I couldn’t say no, but it was too early.
Ince lasted six months in his first senior management position at Blackburn.
Monday night football invited Paul ince He reflected on his transition to management which saw him start with spells at Macclesfield Town and MK Dons before landing his first Premier League appointment when Blackburn Rovers called him in 2008.
It was Ince’s third managerial appointment, but it would only last six months at Ewood Park before he was relieved of his duties. He admits that the position was one he couldn’t turn down, even though it would come too early in his career.
“I was thinking about management when I was 31, that would always be my next step. I knew there was going to be a process of how I would do it, and I ended up going to League Two and the last Macclesfield club,” he said.
“It was not a job that I probably would have imagined having after the career that I had. That is why Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard are lucky people, who are driven to these bigger clubs.
“But I was happy to do that, learn from the bottom and work my way up. If I was offered one of those jobs, I couldn’t have said no.”
“I got the Blackburn job, it lasted six months, we weren’t in the bottom three. It was still too early to take the job, but I couldn’t turn it down. My rise in management was so fast from League Two, League One and then straight to the Premier League that was too early for me.
“The game had changed, the players had changed and they were not the same as in my generation, but I couldn’t turn down the job.”
Ince: Frank needs someone to lean on
Ince has questioned whether Lampard has senior bosses with experience in his coaching setup to rely on when the going gets tough.
“Steven Gerrard has done well taking Gary McAllister with him, but when things go wrong for Frank, who does he talk to?” added.
“We know that Jody Morris is a very good coach, but who is that senior person that he can go to and ask what to do in certain situations? He wouldn’t know what Frank would have said at the break against Manchester City. You say?
“There’s no getting around it, if you spend that amount of money on players, whether you’re Lampard or Ancelotti, you’re going to be under pressure. But that’s where you need someone who has played and managed among the players, higher echelons in which lean on “.
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