Hey Frank Lampard, do you want a new contract at Chelsea or don’t you?
Four-goal Frank’s contract-itis flares up again
The London Evening Standard today has a story about how Frank Lampard is growing impatient with the Bank of Chelsea for not coming round with a vast new contract, as he heads towards the final year of his current agreement.
“I’ve been approached a few times by the club saying they are going to come to me with something and they haven’t,” the paper quotes the fashionable one as saying. “They have made contact, but it hasn’t been with any news. They’ve been saying that something is going to happen, but if we wait until the summer and nothing happens then I’ve got a year left which is not a position I want to be in….Every time I run out for the club I don’t think about the contract, but when I am at home I would like it to be sorted out.”
Is this the same eager-to-sort-it Frank Lampard who was mentioned in a report in the Guardian on August 10 last year, which began thus: “Frank Lampard has effectively suspended talks with Chelsea over a new contract until the end of the season after admitting that negotiations had broken down, a move that will leave him with only 12 months remaining on his current deal when discussions resume next summer.”
On that occasion, the world’s third-highest paid player was quoted as saying “They (negotiations) have gone on quite a long time and, now the season’s started, I’ve told them I don’t want to get involved in negotiations that aren’t going to end well while I’m playing football as it’s a big season for me and the club.”
So when Frank now says “It’s dragged on this season and that’s not ideal for me,” even the most slow-witted Standard readers will be thinking “Wait a minute – didn’t you tell Chelsea to stop pestering with you?” Or is this one of those intricate negotiating tactics that only very wealthy people are capable of understanding?
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