‘I performed underneath Lampard at Chelsea and actually needed to go earlier than his sacking’
Former Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger admitted simply how determined he was to depart the membership whereas Frank Lampard was supervisor.
The Germany worldwide spent 5 years at Stamford Bridge the place he performed a paramount function of their Champions League success in 2021 in addition to a number of home cups he gained with the Premier League giants.
Rudiger, 30, had three managers throughout his time on the membership however he might have left sooner than 2022 if he had his want after desirous to depart throughout Lampard’s time as supervisor.
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Despite his significance to Chelsea underneath Antonio Conte, Lampard had most popular a defensive partnership of Kurt Zouma and Andreas Christensen, leaving Rudiger on the outskirts of the first-team which brought about him to consider his future.
Speaking to Goal, he mentioned: “To be honest, I still can’t say exactly what happened back then. That’s part of football. Maybe he [Lampard] had other ideas or saw other players better. But the good thing about football is that the answer is on the pitch and I think I gave the perfect one.”
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After a poor run of type in early 2021 that noticed Chelsea sit ninth within the Premier League desk, the previous England worldwide was sacked as Rudiger revealed whether or not any of his team-mates had downed instruments underneath Lampard.
“Nothing like that has ever happened in my career,” he emphatically answered. “I even played under Lampard again at the end of his tenure. Let me put it this way: if it doesn’t fit at some point, then it doesn’t fit anymore. But no footballer in this world loses on purpose.”
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The Real Madrid man admitted that Paris Saint-Germain – who had been managed by Thomas Tuchel on the time – had been on the high of his record when wanting to depart Chelsea. “I really wanted to leave. I wanted to leave. I wanted to join Thomas Tuchel at Paris Saint-Germain, that was my wish,” Rudiger added.
He defined that his compatriot’s “honest manner” in the case of speaking along with his gamers suited him higher than Lampard’s model of man-management.
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Luckily for Rudiger, Tuchel ended up succeeding Lampard at Stamford Bridge, the place Rudiger performed the most effective soccer in his profession however determined to depart the membership in 2022 the place he joined Real Madrid on a free switch.
