{"id":127455,"date":"2019-06-17T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127455"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:33:28","slug":"derby-county-gives-update-on-lampard-joining-chelsea-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127455","title":{"rendered":"Derby County gives update on Lampard joining Chelsea as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Derby County chairman, Mel Morris, has said they are yet to receive an approach from Chelsea for manager Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n

Lampard is hot favourite to take over from Maurizio Sarri, who was confirmed as the new Juventus manager on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The former Blues midfielder has enjoyed a promising first campaign in football management as he guided Derby to the play-off semi final last season.<\/p>\n

But Morris, who is keen on retaining Lampard\u2019s service, insists the south-west club are yet to approach Derby over the availability of their boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made it very clear to everyone, but most importantly to Frank himself that we want to retain him at the club for the long term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Chelsea want to hire Frank then it is in their gift to make an offer in pursuit of that. In the meantime we will continue to put our best foot forward to continue with out plans for the coming season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will work closely with Frank in that regard so that he knows how much he is wanted by everyone associated with the club,\u201d Morris told Sky Sports.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derby County chairman, Mel Morris, has said they are yet to receive an approach from Chelsea for manager Frank Lampard. Lampard is hot favourite to take over from Maurizio Sarri, who was confirmed as the new Juventus manager on Sunday. The former Blues midfielder has enjoyed a promising first campaign in football management as he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127207,"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":[12483,12101],"class_list":["post-127455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-derby-county","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127455","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=127455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}