Frank Lampard speaks to Gary Lineker | FULL EXTENDED INTERVIEW | Part 1

there is want to take you back Frank and to start with to the summer before last we're in Moscow mm-hm working there you get a job as the Darby manager and you'd been kind of around always talking chatting and suddenly you were walking around your phone a lot and life changed didn't it in terms of how different does it being being a manager to your life before that the year I had on the other side working with yourself and others I really enjoyed actually I really enjoyed it was some of the always interested me it was a great change of lifestyle from what I've been a long long playing career and so I had a lovely balance at that point and then I just went in Bruins slope even though I applied for 20 odd years or ever and been doing my coaching badges do the realisation when he's had constant are that very quickly of the change in your life the responsibility the nonstop nature of it was was intense and it hasn't stopped and mother I now I've got it I think I miss it if I didn't have him but it was a really difficult decision to go into it or did was it something that actually really yeah I was quite aware every I mean you would have joked with me I remember Ryo joking under Champions League final that I'm gonna come back with gray hair and he's right it's coming up very quickly what are the most difficult aspects of the job finding the right balance for life I would say is that even possible now you need really good people around you particularly a good wife because they're the ones that that really can take it you know like a loss and you're eating and dinner can be slightly ruined which is sometimes my fault because I should be able to let go can I let go after a game bad result I'm struggling at the moment yeah what I'm trying to do is get a little bit more balanced and more of a okay we lost on Saturday for whatever reason it'll be maybe that night can be full of thoughts and hindsight and possible regrets sometimes but the next day has to be looking towards the future and I say that I haven't mastered it yet you know Christine does so much for me at home I mean we've got a relatively young baby and she really is incredible like that but I'm also trying to you know play my part as is on that side I'm also trying to be a husband and and be good at my job even though you know it and even though as a player oh you know I saw managers and saw and felt what I thought their responsibility was until you're in the say you don't know what's the difference in emotion after a game whether it's winning or losing from being a player to a manager yeah I think I find them both higher I think the things are better you want the only thing you miss is that moment of a goal of a goal that personal individual moment of the goal yeah that helps the team win and I and I I have slightly my not lot lows but that's a moment that never comes back you retire that's it when you win and the responsibility that you take on and your staff even and from the Monday and right through the week how you prepared and how you selected the team I think he Trump's it all having said that when you lose it's much worse and better plan do you think being the player that you were having the career that you had helps you in management yes I think it does I think it does because the experiences I that I had and I was fortunate to have them not just winning things but losing things because you have to add that perspective and everything every day the minute I hear on the radio is a lot of managers getting sacks and who's gonna be the next manager and should it be someone who's had a good career who's fresh to the game I mean it's a little bit on you know trend at the minute I know Steve Adair I was doing it so well off at Rangers himself ready Lindbergh in the arsenal hops hot seat for as an interim manager and also I suppose when you go immediately into the dressing room there must be some degree of respect from players for what you've done so it buys you a little bit of time yeah with the players obviously no never that much because ultimately they'll make a judgement yeah yeah I think there is that yeah and I think I felt that more at Derby it was a very British dressing room so I guess a lot of the players had seen quite closely Michael I agree with you I think it can only last as long as you do your job well and they feel is how you build relationships of all of them I made lots of mistakes in the beginning my my first meeting was a mistake because I told them I had an open-door policy and then they all wanted to come into my door and ask why they won't play I can't speak to Eternity every week it was one of those things perhaps when you're a player you thought the times you want to go in and I want to go to the manager you know I know the ones that didn't give me that feeling and it was like that's too cold I you know and I felt that I was probably try to swing it the other way and they were really good lads I can't complain about you is brilliant in there but it was just a great very quick learning curve the Chelsea group is completely different in a dressing room as completely different cultural and no open-door policy any more it's well I think it's a job I didn't I didn't Claire that you know and I think I think it's important that they know they can talk to you and maybe the it's the open door ease more words on a training ground on the pitch here and there just so you're constantly got relationship with the players but they can't always be nice they can't always be good I've recognised that quite quickly that was the one thing I learnt quickly was death as a player I hate you Ben I hated being dropped I was terrible at it and I look back now and I go well I would have been really tough to manage the different parts of my career and that's one of the biggest challenges I felt because I expected players to be disappointed some one not so much and then you learn about them yeah it was it one of the hardest things keeping everyone happy in a squad when you've got so much competition for places because obviously a lot of young players have come in you've kept out really experienced well no names hmm I'm constantly trying to think about that and strive to get that the right feeling within the group because especially if those players are training while you're looking for opportunities for them if you try and be you know best friends for everyone and keep all the squad happy I think you end up in some well the middle ground where maybe you actually not keeping that many happy and you're compromising what you want to do first impressions are always important hmm what's the difference between the first day at Derby and the first day Chelsea was it the first day at Derby is more of a blur to me because of how quickly it can because it was my first job and I can say it now 18 months later life I was somewhat nervous driving interviewer what yeah and Pratt see any game you've ever played I would say so I would say so because all of a sudden you makes you realize that I wish I'd you know really focus on every little bit that every manager did in my career every meeting everything you know because you're done I took lots from a lot of the managers I work with it's but sometimes when it should go right now it's may now go arrange a meeting I've got to sort the schedule out I've gotta be ours probably 50 questions today I need to answer and you must get to that quickly because indecision or the feeling that you don't know what you're doing quite in a certain way is probably gonna get you pretty quickly but is it okay to admit that you're gonna be slightly volved yeah yeah a difficult start yeah I think it is and I think people don't mind seeing that I had no ego to be a dictator and try and pretend under everything they're all alone I think we everybody does it in a job I believe were you actually inside you're really struggling with something but you put a face on and go yeah I know of course I want inside you're not so short and I'm nothing new things now hoc I'm learning about the pressure and expectation being a lot more so I think he ever response me to be very open and very straight about what you've seen and where you want the club to go must be quite a fine line between being openly critical of your players and because we all know players don't like ya to be criticized publicly so it's about getting that balance right as well yeah the only time in my my view that you go down that route is if you feel something which is really sort of bad professionalism or a lack of effort or some other and if I saw that gentleman that's him I would have no problem calling out I'm certainly not one to judge and and because I was that younger ply sometimes I made mistakes in my career I think it's important that you do that but I wouldn't be one to be critical for the sake of a misplaced past or a back pass or a miss penalty because I think those are all part of the game you have worked for a number of managers you mentioned it earlier about picking different things you wish you'd listen to every meeting because I'd ever said but what parts have you taken from the various managers in terms of Jose Mourinho the detail that he first brought at Chelsea was so for thinking every training session had an immense detail and we planned and structured so you'd kind of was you'd know exactly what you're doing from the staff he would give you what was happening it was like a cone fest of everything was happening and all that any kind of as a player I was worried there miss out have a father side it was that and it was probably probably more structured to lose the weekend you know Stoker white okay we're gonna deal with long Bulls we're going to deal with long froze and that's sounds really basic but there was always an idea with a Carlo Ancelotti or Guus Hiddink who I really kind of felt close to his managers day had a very human touch to them in man management and their style that I certainly remember how their their personal relationships were always applies under the group and that was something that I always fall so can you get that right can you get the detail and attack seeds can you then get that touch with your pliers you don't have to know many names but what things in the managers have you seen that you definitely wouldn't want to take into your management you get the flip of the Angelotti and the Guus Hiddink where you feel like you have no relationship with the manager it just wouldn't be the way I am and so the biggest thing when it comes down to is that you have to be real to what you are the first thing that player will see is someone trying to be something they're not we're in a business and we have to try and win stuff so I I think just trying to be who you are is probably the first one I'd rather foul as may than try and be the next josie marino whoever it might be you

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Length: 10min 24sec (624 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 30 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/JustAboutUpToSpeed]

"Full", "Part 1"?

[u/RobotsAndSheepDreams]

That was really enjoyable, thanks for post it

[u/RSLDN8]

Anyone get the idea Lampard was talking about AVB at the end?

‘First thing a player would see is someone trying to be something they’re not’

‘I’d rather fail as me than try be the next Jose Mourinho’