Why Chelsea board should not appoint Mauricio Pochettino as permanent manager – Frank Lampard reveals
Chelsea interim manager Frank Lampard has backed Chelsea’s decision to explore all options before appointing the next permanent manager.
After sacking Graham Potter last month, Chelsea’s recruitment team have interviewed several candidates including Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique.
But former Tottenham manager Pochettino, who has been out of work since he was sacked by Paris Saint-Germain last summer, is now expected to take charge at Stamford Bridge once Lampard’s interim stint has ended.
“Do they [Chelsea] need to take their time to get the right manager? Yeah, they absolutely should do,” Lampard said.
“We are at that stage of the season now where we understand that we are not going to get into Europe, and other managers are probably going, ‘I’ll take a look at this and wait till pre-season when I can enforce what I want to do’.
“It’s not silly on their part, we’ve got the top four in the run-in and that is going to be a difficult process of games.”