Frank Lampard

[Phil Driver 503]

You leave it to Jose,you cant dig out Lampard there ,you are an embarrasment ,luckily Jose knows what he is doing,Lampard did well enough and was being saved for Poland.

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

I agree with you that Jose knows what he is doing, that's why we have 2 or 3 January targets for one of the pivots. Lampard should get minutes in a more advanced position as that's where his strengths are.

[NishC300 1,865]

I just love Lampard's style of sticking his tongue out.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

I just love Lampard's style of sticking his tongue out.

Better than this???

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

I just love Lampard's style of sticking his tongue out.

Well, that's worrying

[Jase 43,479]

I just love Lampard's style of sticking his tongue out.

You've got issues mate, serious issues..

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

I think Frankie is a handsome fella myself but that's going a little too far.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I just love Lampard's style of sticking his tongue out.

Takes a lot of technical ability

[CrayzayBarnet 126]

How disturbing haha

[Blue Armour 4,288]

If you want things to get weirder...

I've noticed that he also jogs on the pitch with his thumbs up..

[Phil Driver 503]

All this stuff is very good ,but strangely the thing that I noticed most was 200 + goals,loads of trophies and a superb footballer .

[Jase 43,479]

If you want things to get weirder...

I've noticed that he also jogs on the pitch with his thumbs up..

This is the effect of international breaks. People start to notice and say weird things.....

[Tomo 21,733]

This is the effect of international breaks. People start to notice and say weird things.....

Nothing compared to the close season.

[Phil Driver 503]

Make no mistake Lamps is going nowhere and will be with us next season and rightly so ,great from Jose yesterday when he said Frank will be good for at LEAST another two seasons ,however I do agree that we need another quality midfielder in our squad ,another point was Jose does not talk about holding midfield players but his two midfield players,these two need to be box to box and have very good stamina and work together pressing and recovering their positions,we do not have a sitting holder in our team anymore,the role is redundant.

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

I don't think that role is redundant, see how strong Brazil looked defensively in the Confeds Cup with Luiz Gustavo sitting there and at times playing like a third centre half. That means you can interchange a formation during a match, as in, going three at the back and utilising the full backs as attacking wing backs, and when you have the lead, you revert back to four at the back in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Bayern used something similar last season and Pep is optimising that now as well. Like you say, we need two capable box-to-box players who are sound both offensively and defensively, that's what we have been lacking, especially against the stronger sides.

[Phil Driver 503]

I was referring to Chelsea not Brazil ,Jose spoke about his two midfielders not a holder and a runner or two holders ,he spoke about his two midfielders not sure what Brazil has to do with Chelsea's formation? I dont see us playing with a third centre half in the near future under Jose judging by his comments where he spoke about his two midfielders and how he saw Lampard as very much part of his short and long term plans .

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

My bad, that Brazil side I spoke of does not serve as a reference as they play in a completely different sport, don't they...

We just used three centre halves in our last game against Norwich. But that's not what I said, I said we need a box to box player who can also perform that function if or when we need it.

[Phil Driver 503]

Ivanovich becomes part of any three at the back for us ,not our two midfileders as happened at Norwich ,Brazil are nothing to do with our formation.