They Were Wrong About Frank Lampard.

Lovely stuff. Heartwarming narrative. Coventry City tweeted out why the clubs keep hiring Frank Lampard. Referencing what media, I think Mark Goldbridge, pundits have said historically as well, only gets his job because of his name, when actually the narrative around Lampard is largely false or, you know, just misremembered. But, with games, multiple games to go, Frank Lampard has promoted Coventry City back into the Premier League for the first time in a quarter of a century, 25 years. I was but a boy, a sweet boy, when Coventry were in the back of the Premier League. Massive club, you know, first division Premier League. They've been out down in the doldrums. Lampard, very emotional when being interviewed after their confirmed promotion to the Premier League yesterday. Yeah, very emotional. You could see it meant so much to him. He's connected so much with the fans, talking about this club. Yeah, they've spent a bit of money, but he did pick them up the season before, just over the relegation zone. They flew up the table. He got them into the playoffs, of course. Ends up losing to Sunderland, where Coventry were favourites in terms of the form table at the time. But, you know, they missed out, they went again, and he's absolutely dominated the championship. And, like I said, it's not necessarily confirmed champions yet, but confirmed promotion after, yeah, the first time in 25 years. So, no parachute payments being rotated. This is, of course, the reason why you see so often relegated teams come back up in the following three seasons, because they are benefiting from the parachute payments that's given to them by the Premier League. So, a big club, you know, say like a Burnley goes down, or a Norwich, or something like that. Or, do you know what I mean? Or Southampton, or one of these clubs go down, they get money for the next few seasons through the Premier League. It helps them revitalise. I think it's because if they're a Premier League team, their wages are higher and stuff like that. Even if there's stuff in the contract to reduce if they get relegated. Just the operating cost is the way it's structured. So, for Coventry City to be out of the Premier League for 25 years and be brought back is a sensational achievement by the club. And, of course, Frank Lampard, and that's what, you know, I opened with them. They do so much media, Coventry City, about Frank. He connects with the fan base so well, but he's always done this, guys. He did this at Derby. They adored him over there. Of course, at Chelsea, naturally, Chelsea fans are always going to adore Frank Lampard, but he did a good job. Everton, even though, you know, didn't do anything magnificent with them, his remit was to make sure they didn't get relegated. They didn't get relegated. He connected well with the fans. The Everton fans liked Frank. The Coventry City fans adore Frank Lampard. This is telling. Every single fan base he's managed, he's connected with. You think of, like, again, looking through the lens of a Chelsea fan, not about Frank Lampard, because that, of course, would be hugely biased, but, you know, Enzo Maresca has been booed by Chelsea fans. They called him a W-word. Pochettino, you know, managers that have done okay for other clubs, they get turned on all the time, but Frank Lampard is clever. He knows how to emotion. It's authentic as well. Look how emotional he was at the end of that game yesterday. Coventry currently sit at the top of the championship, three games to play, with 86 points. Second is 75, Ipswich. Millwall still not really the chance for automatic promotion, but Southampton in sensational form, actually, flying at the table, won their last five. They're the form team, actually. The Coventry up there, they've got the best goal difference in the league by some difference. Coventry City, again, Frank Lampard's Coventry City has a goal difference of plus 42. The second best is 29, and then 23. So, absolutely, especially earlier in the season, just blowing teams away, absolutely destroying teams, scoring loads of goals. You know, the goals against is probably like the fourth, the joint second best in the league. So, they've got a good defense. They've got an amazing attack, scored by far the most goals, and a great team with a great manager, Frank Lampard. I want to speak about Frank a little bit more and what he could do moving forward in his career, but welcome back to Football Yannick. Of course, daily content here. Thank you for joining me. Delighted to have you. If you like my daily football content, please do consider subscribing. Like I said, before we're over, we are over 20,000 subscribers now, which I'm really delighted about. You're all welcome, of course. So, thank you for liking and subscribing and dropping those hype points, if you could spare them down here. Swipe your comment section over and hype the video. Right, so Lampsey, Frank Lampard. You know, you had Mark Goldbridge saying when he got the Coventry job, like, why is, you know, Ruud not getting it? It's because he's Pally with red nappies, you know. It's just basically like, you know, going off about the fact that Lampard got the Coventry job. When Lampard was, it was, Lampard, people say he takes the wrong jobs. I think the only wrong job he's ever taken is the interim job at Chelsea when he came back, and even then, you know, no one really judges him on that. He looks at it and was like, this is mental. This is untenable. No one's fit. No one wants to be here. No one can fit in the dressing room. It's an unmanageable situation, and we won, like, one game underneath him. But I don't think he ever made a mistake. It wasn't, because look where he is now. It's like, you know, it's fate. It wasn't a mistake to go and be interviewed by Mel Morris, by Derby. He didn't even have all his badges, but, you know, he wooed him. Is that a word? He wowed him. He did something to him in that interview, and he gave him the job. You know, Chelsea had to go to Chelsea. You guys know the score. We had a transfer ban. We lost to Eden Hazard. He got us into the top four cup final, and, you know, it was really, really good, and into the Champions League run as well, of course, and then into the next season. I know he got sacked after a turbulent run of form, but he still had, like, an immaculate Champions League phase campaign. Tuchel obviously picked up on that. When Tuchel won the Champions League for Chelsea, he was very mindful to praise Lampard in lots of those coaching stuff. So success at Derby, broadly success at Chelsea. You know, Derby wanted to keep him, remember. People say, oh, we took them from sixth to sixth, but they don't know the context of Derby. They'd lost. They'd sold their best players, the league's top scorer. They brought the average age down to really young. They wanted to play an expansive attacking brand of football. The request of change was profound. He delivered all of that and got them to the playoff final, you know, and just lost 2-1 to an Aston Villa that was just better and better players. So they were, like, really happy with his performance at Derby. It's just this, like, you know, it's banter because, you know, he's a big name. He's a big player. Names of people want him to fail, but it was, you know, you could identify that as a success. His first season at You know, nothing fancy, but he did what he did and obviously he's gone to Coventry and rightly being praised for, again, picking them up. You need the full scope of the situation because they shouldn't have been where they were when he picked them up near the relegation zone, but they flew up the table and he's been excellent and they've walked the league this season. So he's going to stay with Coventry City, rightly, into the Premier League, see if he can keep them up and then, like, you know, there'll be conversations being had again about Frank Lampard who's still, like, you know, how old is Frank now? He's still in his 40s, isn't he? He's got to be. He's 47, so he's still a young-ish manager with loads of years experience now in, you know, multiple jobs in the Prem, multiple jobs in the Championship. He's a very intelligent man. He's emotional. I think the Chelsea owners are sort of keeping an eye on him because I probably see him as not just a guy who will work with them as a good communicator because Lampard has spoken positively, a lot of Chelsea fans won't like this, but he has spoken positively about the current ownership quite a bit. So they'll be keeping an eye on him. Obviously, they put him back in as an interim, but they'll think if he can be a high-achieving manager, he'll also be a tonic to the Chelsea fans who, of course, aren't happy with the ownership at the moment. But also, like, he can get another great job again. Like, he'll want to stay with Coventry, rightly so, keep them in the Prem. He brings them back, keeps them there, establishes them there, and he's like a sort of Coventry City legend, a manager legend, you know what I mean? After 25 years, brings them back and kept them there. They love him, they adore him. And then what does he do next? Because he's not, I mean, he's going to be at Coventry forever unless they become some sort of top four team under him in the next 10 years. You know, will he return to Chelsea for another stint, a second permanent stint? I think, personally, Frank Lampard is destined. And I thought this when we first hired him under Abramovich. I think he'll become England manager. And I think the FA would love that. They would love Lampard the way he speaks. He can very much, and I mean this in the best way, not in the derogatory sense, but he can be a company man, as in he can be a line thinking, represent his employer well, you know, which is a good thing. Sometimes it's good to speak out. And the company man is obviously used as like a sort of negative, like, you know, stick to be a manager with. But it can be a skill, managing up. I think the FA would really like Frank. They'd love how he's, you know, capped in England, got loads of England caps. They'd love how he'd, you know, manage all a wealth of different experience in managing in the Championship, Premier League, young players, senior players, and managed in Europe in the Champions League. He's of course had this amazing playing career, including, you know, loads of caps for England, scored a bunch of goals for England as well. So I think he is destined to become the England manager at some point when he's ready. Maybe like mid-50s or something, I don't know. But after like another sort of eight years of club management or something like that, we'll see. But he's made an incredible achievement. He's rightly getting his flowers at the moment, Frank, and deserves the respect of all. So I had to react to it. But let me know your thoughts. Please do leave them down in the comments. Thank you as always for liking and subscribing to Footballganic. And I hope to see you back here very soon. All right, take care.