{"id":126506,"date":"2019-06-14T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126506"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:02:45","slug":"drogba-speaks-on-lampard-replacing-sarri-as-chelsea-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126506","title":{"rendered":"Drogba speaks on Lampard replacing Sarri as Chelsea manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Drogba-speaks-on-Lampard-replacing-Sarri-as-Chelsea-manager.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Didier Drogba has said his former Chelsea team-mate, Frank Lampard, is ready to return to the club as manager.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba lined up alongside Lampard to great success at Stamford Bridge, winning a host of honours from the Champions League to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The former England midfielder is being tipped to replace Maurizio Sarri, who is set to leave for Juventus this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is a very good option for the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has done well with Derby, you know, taking the team to the play-off final and I think it is a very good option for the club,\u201d Drogba told the media at Stamford Bridge on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian also dismissed talk about Lampard\u2019s inexperience, after only managed Derby County for one and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he is never going to be ready, then? Does he have to wait until he is 40 or 50 to be ready? I think it depends on your experience and depends on your desire to succeed and do it. If he feels ready I don\u2019t think it is too early,\u201d he added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Drogba has said his former Chelsea team-mate, Frank Lampard, is ready to return to the club as manager. Drogba lined up alongside Lampard to great success at Stamford Bridge, winning a host of honours from the Champions League to the Premier League. The former England midfielder is being tipped to replace Maurizio Sarri, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8079,12101],"class_list":["post-126506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-didier-drogba","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}