Nicky Butt has backed Frank Lampard for one more stint in control of Chelsea and says he would do an ‘amazing job’ back at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard looks set to take Coventry City back into the Premier League, with the Sky Blues requiring only a single point from their final 4 games to seal promotion to the highest flight.
The Midlands club have been in good form under Lampard, losing just seven games in a highly competitive league and scoring 84 goals – 11 greater than another Championship side.
That is by far Lampard’s most successful spell as a manager following his previous stints at Chelsea, Derby County and Everton.
Chelsea legend Lampard was appointed as manager at Stamford Bridge in 2019 and enjoyed an encouraging begin to his tenure, guiding the Blues to a fourth-place finish within the Premier League and into the FA Cup final, which they lost to Arsenal.
The west London side continued to impress initially of Lampard’s second season in charge, topping their Champions League group and climbing to the highest of the Premier League in early December.
But Chelsea then won just two of their next eight games to slide to ninth and Lampard was sacked at the tip of January 2021.
A disappointing spell at Everton followed before Lampard returned to Chelsea in the course of the 2022-23 season as caretaker manager following Graham Potter’s sacking.
But Lampard failed to alter the mood in west London, winning just one in every of his 11 matches in charge and taking Chelsea into the bottom-half of the Premier League.
Lampard has had no such issues at Coventry, nonetheless, and Manchester United hero Butt believes he should now be a candidate for the Chelsea job once more.
Would Lampard be appointment for Chelsea?
Yes – it is time for him to return
No – he is best off staying at Coventry
A big section of Chelsea supporters are already losing faith in Liam Rosenior, who was appointed in January following Enzo Maresca’s departure.
Chelsea were unceremoniously dumped out of the Champions League by PSG and have slipped to sixth within the Premier League, 4 points outside the top-five places.
The Blues are willing to present Rosenior more time to show things around but Butt believes Lampard would do an ‘amazing job’ back at Chelsea should they be trying to find a brand new manager within the near future.
Speaking on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast, Butt said: ‘Do you think that if Frank Lampard gets promotion with Coventry they might return in for Frank?
‘He got the job too early the primary time I think and he had the transfer embargo so he had to make use of plenty of young players.
‘It wouldn’t be a silly thing to go and get Frank Lampard back in control of Chelsea for me. He’s done an amazing job at Coventry.
‘He’s got a bit more experience now and he probably made a number of mistakes the primary time around. People need to know that transfer embargo means you should depend on a great deal of young players, that will need to have been difficult for him.
‘He can be a completely different manager now. I feel Lampard would find it easier working with higher players, it could be easier for him to get his messages across to more technical players.
‘If Frank went back into Chelsea, with all of the experience he’s got now, I feel he would do a tremendous job, I actually do.’
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