Kai Havertz role was ‘coaching problem’ for Frank Lampard, who says some signings at Chelsea weren’t his
Frank Lampard has admitted that finding the correct role for Kai Havertz was one of the 'coaching problems' he encountered at Chelsea.
The Blues legend took charge of the club in the summer of 2019 and did well to secure a top-four finish despite losing star player Eden Hazard and having to contend with a transfer embargo.
But just eight months after his creditable first season as a Premier League manager, Lampard was handed his P45 following a bad run of results.
The bad form came despite Lampard receiving over £200million to sign new players in the summer of 2020, however, he admitted he struggled to get the best out of some of them.
Lampard said he collaborated with then-chief executive Marina Granovskaia over recruitments but there were some signings which were not mainly driven by him.
On his sacking as Chelsea manager, Lampard told Sky Sports: «It hurt, it hurt a lot. Because I feel like we were working towards something and what had happened for sure bringing in those players had changed the aspects...
»When we changed and brought players in, I had different problems — coaching problems. What's going to get the best out of Timo Werner? Is he a no.9? We've still got Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud. Kai Havertz, what is his best position?
«It was a club recruitment policy, there were players I wanted. Ben Chilwell was big for me.»
Lampard continued: «If I'm honest in my situation it was a mixture. Certain players I would be very keen to bring in and we did collaborate with Marina.
»Roman Abramovich was not present but you knew he was the overseeing power. I think I quite appreciated that. I never heard from him but it was never a problem for me.
«But there were certain players who were more brought in as a club thing and
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