CHELSEA WILL GIVE LAMPS £140K A WEEK
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CHELSEA last night offered Frank Lampard a new £140,000-a-week take-it-or-leave-it contract which would make him the highest-paid player in British football, in a desperate bid to keep him out of the clutches of Inter Milan.
The attempt to persuade the England midfielder to stay came after Express Sport revealed yesterday that contract talks had reached deadlock and that Lampard was upset that new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari had not yet contacted him to assure him of his future at the club.
If Lampard accepts, he will move above captain John Terry in the Stamford Bridge pay scale as the highest earner at the club – and in the country. Terry is on around £135,000 a week, while other stars such as Germany skipper Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko are earning around £130,000 a week.
Chelsea’s dramatic late move appears to be a last-ditch offer to the England midfielder, who is due back for pre-season training on Monday.
New manager Scolari, though, has still not spoken to Lampard, who will return from holiday in Sicily tomorrow. Sources have described the player as “disillusioned” by the silence from the Brazilian and ready to leave. The £8 million signing ofPortugal midfielder Deco earlier this week was hardly a positive sign.
Inter, managed by Lampard’s former mentor Jose Mourinho, are convinced they have clinched a £7m deal for the player with a £6m-a-year contract on offer, although no talks with Lampard have taken place.
One more sign that Scolari has Lampard some way down his list of priorities is that the manager has found the time for talks with centre-back Ricardo Carvalho in a bid to persuade him to stay.
Carvalho is a £24m target for Inter, but Scolari met the Portuguese star last week and begged him to stay at Stamford Bridge. The fact that the coach went out of his way to do that with another Blues player could spell the end of Lampard’s Stamford Bridge career.
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Not sincere, if they wanted him, long long negotiated with him liao, i believe this is a last option and in placing the money on the table without any conversation or communication, it give an impression that the player is like a begger at the mercy of money.
No doubt money motivate players, but the enviroment and the warmest of the team and management is very critical.
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lampard will be fatter for sure....not a bad deal.
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this is capitalism gone crazy.....no sense of proportion at all levels.....
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salary of players nowadays follow oil price ah?
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I belief Chelsea's main objective isn't to keep Lampard... I think its more to do with Roman don't want to lose anything to Jose... So he is not going to let any Chelsea players join Jose at Inter if he can help it...
So if money is a problem, then its no problem... But weather Lampard is used to the fullest or even get to play often under Scolari is another matter altogether... I belief with Scolari's boy Deco joining and Ballack... Lampard will be squeeze out and he probably won't like it considering that he is seen as Chelsea's no.2 after Terry...
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Not sincere, if they wanted him, long long negotiated with him liao, i believe this is a last option and in placing the money on the table without any conversation or communication, it give an impression that the player is like a begger at the mercy of money.
No doubt money motivate players, but the enviroment and the warmest of the team and management is very critical.
u obviously don't watch soccer much.. chelsea wanted to give him the offer 1 year ago.. he turned down and said he wanted to concentrated on football first..
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I think chelsea has ran out of patience for lamps already. they repeatedly offered him contract but all was rejected by him. Since he like to hang up and sell, now solari also play mind games with him, telling him that chelsea can survive with or without him.
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i tink we just wait for oil price to go down lah lols..
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he is already at his peak. how much or what does he want? a move to inter is not realistic at all.
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move to Sg National team with reduced pay
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Chelsea the money club with the stupid decisions
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Chelsea the money club with the stupid decisions
so, for say Arsenal's case, would you think "good" decisions without money will work?
the main difference between Chelsea and all other clubs is that the owner likes to be in the news and likes to channel his money into getting good players. some owners dont dare to do it.
and whenever new players come and chelsea dont win any trophies, people start to blame chelsea for being over-spending on useless players.
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Originally posted by ~b1RD_m4N~:
so, for say Arsenal's case, would you think "good" decisions without money will work?
the main difference between Chelsea and all other clubs is that the owner likes to be in the news and likes to channel his money into getting good players. some owners dont dare to do it.
and whenever new players come and chelsea dont win any trophies, people start to blame chelsea for being over-spending on useless players.
Good decisions without money can never work (See Football Association of Singapore).Yes,Chelsea is one team willing to over $pend but it doesnt add up when they are not winning any throphies making it look like someone is buying all the wrong players for the perfect team.
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Good decisions without money can never work (See Football Association of Singapore).Yes,Chelsea is one team willing to over $pend but it doesnt add up when they are not winning any throphies making it look like someone is buying all the wrong players for the perfect team.
you mean roman ^.^
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Roman goes to the ATM to draw money and the Manager just waste it by buying promising players who doesnt know how to keep a promise>LOL
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i hope lamp leave chelsea.
the chelsea would have lose the core of the winning team mentality
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Roman goes to the ATM to draw money and the Manager just waste it by buying promising players who doesnt know how to keep a promise>LOL
well, it takes some time to reap the rewards of building a team. u cant expect chelsea to win all the trophies in a rebuilding season can u? maybe 1-2 seasons to go to rebuild a good team.
and another thing,even with the bestest players, it takes time to gel them into a strong unit.
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Originally posted by reyes:
i hope lamp leave chelsea.
the chelsea would have lose the core of the winning team mentality
what mentality? chelsea isnt made up of winning team mentality, but winning ego mentality. theres big big egos in the team, which makes each of them proud to play in the blue jersey. i cannot stress more that chelsea has most international captains in their team.