{"id":6202,"date":"2026-05-08T22:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:45:41","slug":"ex-blues-man-hopes-legend-doesnt-take-job-amid-mess-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6202","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Blues man hopes legend &#8216;doesn&#8217;t take&#8217; job amid &#8216;mess&#8217; warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea man Shaun Wright-Phillips has revealed he hopes a Blues legend and former team-mate \u201cdoesn\u2019t take\u201d the manager role, while an insider has referred to Stamford Bridge as a \u201cmess\u201d at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea<\/strong> have seen the back of two managers this season. Enzo Maresca was sacked in January, and his replacement, Liam Rosenior, lasted just three months before he was also given the boot.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues will stick with interim coach Calum McFarlane until the end of the season, before hiring a new manager beyond then.<\/p>\n<p>Linked with Chelsea are the likes of Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte, <strong>Frank Lampard<\/strong>Cesc Fabregas, Oliver Glasner and Andoni Iraola.<\/p>\n<p>Lampard is one of the most intriguing, as a former Blues boss who engineered Coventry\u2019s promotion to the Premier League for next season.<\/p>\n<p>But his former team-mate Wright-Phillips hopes he stays with Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em>football.london<\/em>: \u201cFor me, I hope he doesn\u2019t take it. Not in a disrespect to Chelsea, more in, I think he\u2019s kind of established himself a bit now. With this Coventry team, he\u2019s got a team of players that will run through walls for him, as well as perform to their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see how they get on in the Premier League and if they stay up, what they do the year after with him, would kind of solidify him as a manager and as a man.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ<\/strong><\/em>: <strong>EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United still obviously aren\u2019t signing Cole Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then I\u2019d say if (Chelsea) came again, take the job, but earn your stripes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insider Keith Wyness has also urged against Lampard returning to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em>Football Insider<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s lazy writing to me to start linking Frank with Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" image-id=\"prsiM3nYKF7z\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ<\/strong><\/em>: <strong>Terry TikToks harmless for now but Chelsea icon\u2019s right-wing sympathies offer troubling outlook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d much rather, if I was Frank, I\u2019d rather stay with stability at Coventry and try and make my name for myself there than going into the mess that is Chelsea right now. It really is a pretty difficult situation to go back in there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Frank\u2019s well advised to stay there. There are some interesting things happening at Coventry, and good luck to them. Frank\u2019s done very well, and they\u2019re going to be very clever from all I\u2019m hearing about the way they\u2019re going to try to put that squad together with that blend of experience and young, talented youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to give it a good go and Sunderland is a great pointer for what to try and do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/em>: <strong>Chelsea \u2018need\u2019 Man Utd man as Gullit dismisses Fabregas, Nunez claims \u2013 \u2018No, no, no\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea man Shaun Wright-Phillips has revealed he hopes a Blues legend and former team-mate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}