Frank Lampard believes Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has "good intentions."
Despite a rocky start as Chelsea owner, club legend Lampard believes Boehly has the right plan in place for Chelsea moving forward.
Since Boehly's takeover of Chelsea in May 2022, the club and the American have struggled to adapt following the change. The 2022/2023 Premier League campaign saw the effects of this transitional struggle at the Blues. Chelsea finished 12th after signing 18 players worth more than £605million and hiring and firing three managers.
One of those managers was Chelsea hero Frank Lampard, a recent guest on Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast, who spoke about Boehly's ownership of his beloved club.
The former Chelsea manager believes the new owner has the best intentions while claiming that some of Chelsea's new signings will get more opportunities next season.
When asked how Boehly was during his time as interim manager of the club, Lampard said: "Already six, seven, and eight players have left. Certainly, the intentions are good. The owners gave me an opportunity to go in there, and I had a good relationship with them.
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"Their intentions to do a good job there are amazing. They want to take the club and be the best, they have great intentions. Now, those younger players with a new voice and the squad coming tighter, they'll have a better chance to show what they've got. And they're talented players. I can say hand on heart, the owners want to do well."
The former Everton boss spoke about the challenges he faced as interim manager and the size of the squad. The Premier League's top goalscoring midfielder said: "In football, that's a challenge with 20 players, which is a modern squad. But Chelsea's got very big, to the point that I can say, and I'm not criticising that player for dropping standards, but I want to try and get something out of him.
"You have to train elite to be elite, but at Chelsea when you did that you'd have to go 'right, if I want to really focus on the 10 or 11 for tomorrow, that means I've got to have like 18 players over there' and you kind of saw the body language of some of them, and they were like, 'again?', because they have been having it all season."
Since Frank Lampard's time as interim manager has ended, the club have announced their new head coach as former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino and the signings of Christopher Nkunku and Nicolas Jackson, with many Chelsea fans hoping for next season to be more successful than last year.
