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·19 January 2021

Chelsea boss Lampard: This team in potential phase; there'll be tough periods

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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard insists his team will long be a work in progress.

Chelsea sit eight points off the top despite spending nearly £230million on players that are still bedding in, according to Lampard.


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He said: “With our team it's potential, so for us there may be tough moments going forwards.

“We haven't got Hazard contributing 50 per cent of goals or assists. We haven't got Costa scoring 30 goals. We are developing those players and I believe in them strongly.

“When people were touting us as title challengers, we do have a squad when you look at it in terms of its composition, but it's very young particularly in the forward areas.

“We don't have the history of players in those areas that this club had before — goal machines or assist machines that win you games."

Ex-Chelsea coach Brendan Rodgers awaits Lampard at Leicester tonight.

They share a mutual affection for the Blues.

But Rodgers would not want to manage the club as it could 'destroy' you with the pressure.

Lampard said: “I presume Brendan said that when Chelsea had Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, John Terry, Claude Makelele.

“It would have been a team that was always challenging and the benchmark was different.

“At that time I suppose there was a turnaround of managers so I get that.

“Whether he would give exactly the same answer if you asked him after the game, I am not sure. Maybe not.

“At the moment we are not quite there at the front end of the pitch.

“For us there could be tough times. So it's important for me and the players to keep working and stay patient and calm."

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