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FRANK LAMPARD was manufactured in Chelsea.
Lampard, captain when they got their hands on the Coupe de Europe in 2012, comes home.
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That's fate, as the club's scorer is about to be named director of Chelsea after a year in Derby.
Super Frank – idolized, lioned, revered by Chelsea fans – is about to land one of the biggest football gigs.
He will fulfill his ambition by returning to Chelsea to stand in the technical area of Stamford Bridge.
They will love it along King's Road, with Lampard's name still on Matthew Harding and Shed on match day.
When Chelsea wins, it will be Lampard's turn to show meticulous planning and little talismanic touches.
When they lose, it will be the fault of the cheaters, scoundrels and junkies who pollute the locker room. That's how it will work.
Lampard is Chelsea from top to bottom, flawless in the eyes of fans who saw him surpbad the record of Bobby Tambling, with 202 goals in blue blouse, to mark a new mark of 211.
He will now wear a well-honed club suit, his name adding to a prestigious call for director nominations in the Roman Abramovich era.
Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Carlo Ancelotti, Andre Villas-Boas, Rafa Benitez, Antonio Conte and Maurizio Sarri all disappeared.
It's now Lampard's turn, a populist choice after the fans demanded Sarri's withdrawal and heavy tactics.
He inherits from a notoriously difficult locker room, a club in transition to prepare for life after Eden Hazard after moving to Real Madrid.
The Blues transfer ban is another element, but the promotion of Lampard and his confidence in young players will weigh heavily in the negotiations.
Chelsea's children, Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori, as well as Liverpool striker Harry Wilson, flourished under Lampard's leadership at Pride Park.
Lamps, after a year's career in management, would have held this job, regardless of the circumstances.
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The former midfielder, who will turn 41 next week, is the first English date since Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
When that is finally confirmed, he will be the same age as the Special One when he takes up this position for the first time.
Mourinho already had a European Cup, coming from Porto after defeating Monaco 3-0 in the Champions League final in Gelsenkirchen.
Lamps even survived Mourinho's bewildering attempt to return to Chelsea for an impossible third spell.
The former boss of Manchester United worked behind the scenes of a Machiavellian style waterfall to get into position.
Lampard, who considers Ancelotti as the best coach he has worked for, has seen the most successful coach in Chelsea's history.
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He left Derby where he found them – in the championship – after being beaten in the final by Aston Villa, one of Dean Smith's progressives.
Lampard already felt the work coming to Chelsea, encouraged after learning that the coaching staff of Sarri had warned on their London pads.
It surely meant that Sarri was leaving too.
His departure for Juventus, influenced by the hostility of Chelsea fans, opened the door to Lampard.
He is about to travel because Petr Cech will soon return to the blues as a sports director. Cech, in extensive discussions with Abramovich and CEO Marina Granovskaia, made compelling arguments in favor of Lampard.
The former English star lacks management experience, but she spoke about it and came to a reasonable conclusion.
Pep Guardiola spent a year in Barcelona B and was promoted to 38 in the first team. It did not hurt too much.
Glenn Hoddle, two years as a player-manager at Swindon, was 36 when he took over the same role at Chelsea.
Ruud Gullit was 34 when he took over and won the 1997 FA Cup playing "bady football".
Gianluca Vialli took over at 32 and won five trophies – FA Cup, League Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, Community Shield and Super Cup – as manager of Chelsea.
It's a different time, but the Blues had to make a favorable choice after Sarri had made it clear he could not stay.
They tried to convince the Italian earlier this week with one last last attempt to convince him to continue. He was impbadive.
The reality is that Sarri was marked by the experience and is suffering after Chelsea fans attacked him so badly in his 2-1 win at Cardiff in March.
He again took them to the Champions League and left them the Europa League trophy after crushing Arsenal to pieces in the Baku final last month.
This gives Lampard a head start, with a return to first place in European football, essential to the club's long-term vision.
Lampard will soon be part of it, entering a box to meet familiar faces.
He left in 2014, after leaving his relationship with Mourinho reluctantly.
When Lampard comes back as a manager, we will have the impression that he has never left.
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