{"id":165911,"date":"2026-04-05T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=165911"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:18:31","slug":"exclusive-jose-mourinho-on-frank-lampard-and-chelseas-transfer-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=165911","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE! Jose Mourinho on Frank Lampard and Chelsea&#8217;s transfer ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdVimGUb6pM?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>SUBSCRIBE \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSFootballSub<br \/>\nJose Mourinho hopes Frank Lampard looks to Chelsea\u2019s current young players, and insists their only problem has been losing Eden Hazard.<\/p>\n<p>With a transfer ban imposed, new manager Lampard will have a unique situation to work with at Stamford Bridge, something Mourinho says could work in their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports News, the former Chelsea boss says he is reserving judgement on Lampard\u2019s managerial prowess until the results come in, and gave an insight into Lampard\u2019s character as a player.<br \/>\nWatch Premier League LIVE on Sky Sports here \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/WatchSkyPL<br \/>\n\u25baTWITTER: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skysportsfootball<br \/>\n\u25baFACEBOOK: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skysports<br \/>\n\u25baWEBSITE: http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football<\/p>\n<p>MORE FROM SKY SPORTS ON YOUTUBE:<br \/>\n\u25baSKY SPORTS FOOTBALL: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSFootballSub<br \/>\n\u25baSKY SPORTS BOXING: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSBoxingSub<br \/>\n\u25baSOCCER AM: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SoccerAMSub<br \/>\n\u25baSKY SPORTS F1: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkyF1<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdVimGUb6pM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUBSCRIBE \u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSFootballSub Jose Mourinho hopes Frank Lampard looks to Chelsea\u2019s current young players, and insists their only problem has been losing Eden Hazard. With a transfer ban imposed, new&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":165912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}