Coach Quote by Nathan Ake

I admired Lampard and all the main leaders of the team when I was a kid. Every other game, he would score a brilliant…

— Reece James

I can say Lampard has been doing an extraordinary job with Chelsea.

— Hansi Flick

Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach a such a big team. But I would never take that…

— Rafael Benitez

Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and…

— John Terry

Lampard is a great player, not only for Chelsea, but in world football.

— Paulinho

When Frank Lampard joined, in 2001, I'd been at Chelsea for one season. We spent 11m on him. 11m back in the day was…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one…

— Alex Ferguson

It's a big surprise for me because if somebody asked me when I was playing if Frank Lampard would be a manager, I would…

— Michael Essien

I would have liked to have seen Chelsea play with Lampard and Ballack as centre-halves and to have seen what would have happened then.

— Darren Fletcher

I was head coach before and my main ambition is to return to that. But to work for Maurizio and Chelsea was a great…

— Gianfranco Zola

My respect for Chelsea will be forever.

— David Luiz

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

— Gianluca Vialli