Chelsea interim manager Frank Lampard has named Chelsea record signing Enzo Fernandez as the future of Chelsea.
Enzo Fernandez joined Chelsea for a record £120 million in the transfer window. Despite Chelsea’s run of poor form and results, The Argentine international has shown why Chelsea paid such a huge transfer fee to sign him from Benfica after just six months in Europe.
Chelsea will host Brentford on Wednesday in the Premier League, and Frank Lampard hopes to end his four matches winless run since his second return as Chelsea manager.
What did Frank Lampard say about Enzo Fernandez?
He said ahead of the Brentford clash at a Press Conference: “I think he’s a fantastic talent. I think for a young player to have achieved what he has achieved in this footballing year has been amazing.
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“To be part of a World Cup-winning team, to earn himself a move to the Premier League, a club like Chelsea. I agree maybe it’s a difficult moment to come to the club.
“He’s been at the club a few months, and it’s been a difficult time, which has been a challenge for him.
“It’s a challenge that will make him better because everybody will put a lot of eyes on his performance, give him a lot of responsibility.
“The reality, at his age coming here, he also needs support and help and those things. Those things can take time, speaking the language, for instance.
“I think he’s a fantastic talent, and he is the future of Chelsea, one of, central to a lot of it.
“We must also give him that time to settle because will have happened to him very quickly. I really like Enzo, I’ve been very impressed.”
Chelsea is 1st in the Premier League and is out of all competition.
When asked if there was a time in his career when his team had nothing to play for with seven matches to end the season, he said: “No, it’s not. I don’t have a mentality that there’s nothing to play for. I was fortunate enough to be part of the teams that were challenging for the stuff towards the end of the season; that’s not a given. The fact we’ve been fortunate at Chelsea to have that for 15-20 years now; there are a lot of clubs, big status in the Premier League that don’t do that, but we do.
“That’s why we feel it a bit more. It’s important that there’s a reality that when you have long careers, I’ve had one as a player and now a coach, you won’t compete absolutely every season; it’s not a given. It comes down again to your personal pride, responsibility, and wearing the shirt. We’ve now got seven games, four against the top four, three away from home. The run-in is really tough; there’s no doubt about that.
“My interest is to see how the players react to that one because they’re tough games. There’s always something on those games, I understand that, and the players have to understand that.”
