Sir Frank Lampard

"This comparison is a responsibility I will take, I will not run away from it. Lampard is a great player not only for Chelsea but world football."

"I intend to follow in his footsteps as he is a very professional guy. David Luiz always speaks of him on international duty."

"I’ve always looked at what Lampard does and, to me, he is a phenomenon - the way he hits the ball, what positions he takes up. He really is incredible."

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"This comparison is a responsibility I will take, I will not run away from it. Lampard is a great player not only for Chelsea but world football."

"I intend to follow in his footsteps as he is a very professional guy. David Luiz always speaks of him on international duty."

"I’ve always looked at what Lampard does and, to me, he is a phenomenon - the way he hits the ball, what positions he takes up. He really is incredible."

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"At that time (last season) I was not in contact with the club. I was only in contact with him as a friend because we kept contact all over these years."

"I was telling him, the way I know you - don't go to American soccer. You are a player who needs to compete every week at the highest level, you are a player that needs to be in real competition."

"If you go to the States, it's a fantastic country, football is coming up and you would be very important there. But if you go there you will not enjoy your life, and you have years to enjoy your life as a player."

"So my opinion was not to go but try and stay at Chelsea - if Chelsea doesn't want you then try and stay in the Premier League because you belong to high level competition. He was telling me in the Premier League he doesn't want to play in any other club."

"The role doesn’t have to change. What has to change is the way we analyse competition. Before we didn’t analyse, before it was, 'Every match, he plays'. Sometimes I wanted to give him a rest in a Carling Cup match and he’d say, 'If you give me a rest, in the next match I will not be the same because I have to play every three days'.

"We have just to make some choices. I believe he is the same player and the only difference is he is 35. The time needed to recover from match to match is not the same for a man of 25 as a man of 35.  I cannot coach Lampard at 35 the same way I coached Lampard at 27."

"He can't play 60 matches like he did before, but the quality of the player and what he represents for the way I like to play football is exactly the same."

"He’s intelligent, he’s open and he has a very good relationship with me. He knows what I did with Makelele here in the last two years of Makelele. He knows I know how to do it with players of his age because, at the end of the day, we have to be just clever."