Lampard thinking about his future.

Source:The Guardian

Frank Lampard is featured in The Sun today speaking of taking time while he was injured to look at the game differently, at the tactical side of things and has said that although at times before he has said he doesn't want to stay in the game when he finishes playing, he has changed his mind. Lampard is quoted as saying:

"I've had fits and starts in my career where I've thought I fancy being a manager then other times where I think I don't and I want to walk away and get out of the game. Now I'm a bit more level-headed about it and would like to get my badges and see what happens.

I read that Carragher was getting fast-tracked so if there are fast-tracks around I want to do it, too.

If you've played at the highest level you must have something and we have to try and get more English coaches in the future. It's a no-brainer. We haven't used our players very well in the past. There is a certain old-fashioned element in England that everyone should do exactly the same courses whether you have played the game or not. But if we want to bring players through who have played in World Cups or Champions Leagues then we have to make it that bit more relevant to what they've done and the time they've got to do it in.

I tried to use the experience of being injured to my advantage and realised it was much easier to sit upstairs and see and feel a game tactically from the stands rather than when you're amongst it.

Having played so consistently, I've never really had that time to study games. I had my own views on the movement of the forwards and the midfielders and my dad certainly did. He was always telling me he'd told me so. There's nothing wrong with that - my dad's got a great deal of knowledge. Sometimes I think he's stuck in the old days a little bit, though!

The experience did make me keen to be a manager. I love that side of the game and have always been someone who tried to think about it."

I think you will agree that with me when I say that we know just how much of a professional Frank Lampard is as a player. Imagine Frank as a coach or a manager. I believe he would be fantastic and would be just as professional in those roles as he is a player. I would love to see Frank stay at Chelsea as an important figure at the club, whether it's as a Coach or eventually as our Manager.

We have to remember that Frank, by the time he finishes playing, would have gained so much knowledge and experience by playing for the coaches and managers he has, that he could use that to his advantage and if anyone can be as successful off the pitch as on it, then it would be Lampard.

What do you think? Could Frank make it as a Coach or a Manager in the future?

KTBFFH