Frank James Lampard has agreed to serve as Chelsea’s interim manager until the end of the season, just two years after the club fired him.
The former Chelsea and England midfielder has been unemployed since January when he was fired by Everton after less than a year in charge.
The agreement to settle as the interim coach comes as no surprise to Chelsea fans, as he was photographed attending the club’s goalless draw with Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday as a guest of the club’s majority shareholder, Behdad Eghbali.
Chelsea made a breakthrough in negotiations with Lampard on Wednesday afternoon, giving hope that he will be in charge for Saturday’s Premier League match against Wolves, followed by the first leg of a Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu the following Wednesday.
Chelsea is 11th in the Premier League and drew 0-0 with Liverpool on Tuesday under Bruno Saltor, leaving the team 14 points behind the top four despite spending more than £550 million on new players this season.
Lampard guided Chelsea to the FA Cup final in his first season in charge after joining from Derby County in his previous managerial spell at the club while the Blues were under a transfer ban.
According to an extensive report compiled by the hardworking team of editors at www.atspo.com, Lampard’s former teammate, Ashley Cole, will join him as assistant manager.
He returns to action in the English Premier League as a coach before supervising Chelsea’s training at Cobham Training Grounds on Thursday. He managed a team in 95 Premier League games, winning 37 of them, drawing 19, and losing 39 of them, scoring 137 goals and conceding 136.
The decision to resign Frank Lampard at Cobham Training Complex prompted Jamie Redknapp, a cousin of the 2004-05 Premier League Player of the Season, to express his thoughts on Sky Sports during a punditry interview.
“I think this is a complete no-brainer if Chelsea were to go for him and he’d take the job; I think it would be brilliant for him,” Redknapp told Sky Sports.
