Frank Lampard | Coventry Manager

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...rd-coventry-city-manager-mark-robins-sacking/

Frank Lampard is in advanced talks with Coventry City and is close to making his return to management following an absence of almost 18 months.

Telegraph Sport reported how Lampard was a leading contender for the job and the former Chelsea and England midfielder is putting the finishing touches to his contract on Wednesday. It now seems inevitable he will be announced as the successor to Mark Robins who was surprisingly sacked earlier this month.

The 46-year-old has been out of management since leaving Chelsea in an interim role at end of 2022-23 season, but is keen to resume his coaching career if the right opportunity presents itself

Lampard has previous experience of managing in the Championship after guiding Derby County to the play-off final in 2019, which they lost to Aston Villa.

Doug King, the Coventry City owner, is believed to have a link to the Redknapp family. Harry Redknapp is Lampard’s uncle.
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Looks like he's back. :cool:
 


Coventry City are delighted to announce the appointment of Frank Lampard as the Club’s new Head Coach.

The 46-year-old has signed a two and a half year contract with the Sky Blues and will take charge of City for the first time this Saturday against Cardiff City at the Coventry Building Society Arena.

Frank will be supported by two new coaches, Joe Edwards and Chris Jones, who he has worked with extensively previously.
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The reaction is quite interesting. Should “failed” managers never get a job again? Or how many times are you allowed to fail & “try again” before you should just give up? At least he’s trying to do the right thing by dropping down a level or so, and trying to work his way up/restore his reputation. I’m sure if this one doesn’t work out, he’ll probably be doomed after that.

Let’s be clear - I’m not advocating for him & I wouldn’t have offered him the job myself, if I was the owner :lol:, but perhaps he could be decent at championship level, especially as I’d assume he could use his contacts at his previous clubs/in the game to get some possible loan signings from PL clubs’ peripheral players etc. - I’m looking at you Chelsea!

But yeah, if I was forced to put money on it, I’d bet that he won’t be a success there (whatever that means).
 
red.knight said:
Indeed. How do these failed managers keep landing these jobs? :confused:
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It’s the same in top level jobs in any field. Experience is everything apparently. My company has a high level executive who ran his previous company so badly they went bust and had to lay off hundreds of people. Six months later he walked straight in to a top level job in the same field on an eye watering salary. This is how the world works and it sucks.
 
Ish said:
The reaction is quite interesting. Should “failed” managers never get a job again? Or how many times are you allowed to fail & “try again” before you should just give up? At least he’s trying to do the right thing by dropping down a level or so, and trying to work his way up/restore his reputation. I’m sure if this one doesn’t work out, he’ll probably be doomed after that.

Let’s be clear - I’m not advocating for him & I wouldn’t have offered him the job myself, if I was the owner :lol:, but perhaps he could be decent at championship level, especially as I’d assume he could use his contacts at his previous clubs/in the game to get some possible loan signings from PL clubs’ peripheral players etc. - I’m looking at you Chelsea!

But yeah, if I was forced to put money on it, I’d bet that he won’t be a success there (whatever that means).
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I'm with you to an extent.

Did ok at Derby. Not spectacular but ok. In finishing 6th he matched what Gary Rowett did the previous year. They were bankrupting themselves in the process, but I think that applies to Rowett's time there too. First season at Chelsea ok again to finish 4th with a transfer ban and them selling Hazard. Kovacic allowed to join as it was pre-arranged but that was it. A dip from 3rd the previous season not awful under the circumstances.

Since then pretty much shit. Still, it's not all been bad while at the same time not possibly filling anyone with tons of confidence. He wouldn't be going to the Championship if he could.

Seen some people suggest it's exclusively an English thing. It's really not, happens in Spain and Italy a lot. Not so sure about Germany.

Even some managers that go on to have good careers fail at times. Rafa Benitez's first job outside of Real Madrid B/Youth sides was with Valladolid, sacked after 23 matches with 2 wins and them bottom of La Liga. They improved and stayed up after he got the boot. Got a job with Osasuna in the 2nd tier and lasted 9 games with 1 win. You'd wonder why anyone would appoint him at that stage, but they did and he went to be much better than average. That's not to say Lampard is going to have his success or even look good in the Championship. Probably last chance saloon like you say.
 
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Chipper said:
I'm with you to an extent.

Did ok at Derby. Not spectacular but ok. In finishing 6th he matched what Gary Rowett did the previous year. They were bankrupting themselves in the process, but I think that applies to Rowett's time there too. First season at Chelsea ok again to finish 4th with a transfer ban and them selling Hazard. Kovacic allowed to join as it was pre-arranged but that was it. A dip from 3rd the previous season not awful under the circumstances.

Since then pretty much shit. Still, it's not all been bad while at the same time not possibly filling anyone with tons of confidence. He wouldn't be going to the Championship if he could.

Seen some people suggest it's exclusively an English thing. It's really not, happens in Spain and Italy a lot. Not so sure about Germany.

Even some managers that go on to have good careers fail at times. Rafa Benitez's first job outside of Real Madrid B/Youth sides was with Valladolid, sacked after 23 matches with 2 wins and them bottom of La Liga. Got a job with Osasuna in the 2nd tier and lasted 9 games with 1 win. You'd wonder why anyone would appoint him at that stage, but they did and he went to be much better than average. That's not to say Lampard is going to have his success or even look good in the Championship. Probably last chance saloon like you say.
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Yeah, sort of on the same page. I’m not sure what to expect from him at Coventry but I’d be leaning ore towards “not going to end well”. It’s just interesting, the reaction to him dropping down a division to manage and try and rebuild his career. I see it as a positive.
 
Doing well so far to be fair to him. 21 points from 12 games so they'd be on course to comfortably make the play-offs over a full season, good chance of making them this year if they keep up that form.
 
IRN-BRUno said:
Doing well so far to be fair to him. 21 points from 12 games so they'd be on course to comfortably make the play-offs over a full season, good chance of making them this year if they keep up that form.
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He kept my cousin on as first team coach so he gets my vote.
 
I think he's done well in his limited time, I think the whole world can now appreciate the true state Everton found themselves in and he took a big risk going there. The Chelsea stint was good during the transfer embargo season and then less good after that, he was always going to be under pressure to get results straight away with the outlay they had and unfortunately they brought in a couple of duds.

Derby he had a good time at and he is doing well now, he will probably end up being just "alright", the Coventry situation is a good one for him.
 
Stobzilla said:
I think he's done well in his limited time, I think the whole world can now appreciate the true state Everton found themselves in and he took a big risk going there. The Chelsea stint was good during the transfer embargo season and then less good after that, he was always going to be under pressure to get results straight away with the outlay they had and unfortunately they brought in a couple of duds.

Derby he had a good time at and he is doing well now, he will probably end up being just "alright", the Coventry situation is a good one for him.
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Hopefully this is a sign he's done a lot of reflection and honed in his craft a bit on this break out from the game.
 
Stobzilla said:
I think he's done well in his limited time, I think the whole world can now appreciate the true state Everton found themselves in and he took a big risk going there. The Chelsea stint was good during the transfer embargo season and then less good after that, he was always going to be under pressure to get results straight away with the outlay they had and unfortunately they brought in a couple of duds.

Derby he had a good time at and he is doing well now, he will probably end up being just "alright", the Coventry situation is a good one for him.
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I think it’s fairer to say The Championship is his level to this point in time. Seems a fair bet to rise there, but in the PL he has been a disaster.
 
5 consecutive wins, 3 points outside the playoff spots.

Pretty good stuff all things considered. Hopefully he can continue to grow with Coventry.
 
He's one point off the playoff spots. Done a pretty good job so far.
 
WeePat said:
5 consecutive wins, 3 points outside the playoff spots.

Pretty good stuff all things considered. Hopefully he can continue to grow with Coventry.
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He's a proven top level Championship manager in fairness, I think people agree his stint with Derby was very good.

With you guys he was more just a bit average than bad from memory, I remember you playing quite good stuff but the difference tactical knowledge/player profiling was highlighted when Tuchel came in and stuck with the same formation but made you vastly more difficult to break down in a short space of time. Like when we beat you 4-0, you should have been 2-3 nil up before we really did anything and then just naively played to our strengths on the counter.
 
52% win rate so far, decent. I think he could be a very good manager if adjusts his attitude and learns on the job. His style might suit players that are a tier down as well.

A lot of top ex players can think they know it all already despite playing being a totally different job to managing.
 
duffer said:
Next Chelsea manager. Everyone knows third time is the charm.
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I reckon we should give him a go. He’s PL proven and clearly has a formation that would suit us. Amorim is a fraud and doesn’t have that respect and aura that flows through Frank.
 
8 wins in 9 games. Coventry are up to 5th. They were 2 points above the relegation zone when he took over.

He’s always has this knack of getting home fans on his side. He’s always been great at embracing the culture of the club he walks into.

 
I always said he'd do much better at the right club and he had something!
 
To be honest the Chelsea stint came too soon and then the Everton job was always a hiding to nothing. He is good with the media and he looks like he's developing into a pretty good manager.

I don't buy this notion he only works with lesser players as well. I just think he's a young manager learning his way around the job.
 
I'd like to see Coventry and Sunderland come up. Yes they might come straight back down but at least we haven't seen either in the prem for a while and both have good fanbases.

Saw Sheffield United-Leeds the other day and Sheffield United are just full of old premier league reject players. At least Cov and Sunderland have younger teams.

Coventry always been in top 10 last few seasons under Robins so don't think it should be a huge shock to see Lampard getting them into play off contention, he did similar at Derby.

The biggest question mark over him at the top level has always been how well can he organise teams. At Chelsea he was conceding over 50 goals over a full prem season and then Tuchel comes in and it's clean sheet after clean sheet pretty much straight away and that got Chelsea another CL win.
 
On the verge of another victory. He's a good manager at this level.

Edit: 2-2 :lol:
 
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You’ve won one premier league title and you’re giving it the big one

I can’t take him seriously after he said that
 
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