New Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said his immediate goal is to meet up with the bar raised by Liverpool and Manchester City in the previous season.
He will be taking charge of his first Premier League game as Chelsea manager against Manchester United on Sunday.
Lampard, who joined Chelsea as a 22-year-old player in 2001 for a 13-year career, said his formula for success is to “improve daily.”
He added, “there are a lot of young players and improvement to be had, so that will be the first success. The second will be to be competitive like Chelsea generally are. We want to compete, we set out to try and win the league and the competitions we are in.
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“We’ve got a group here I believe a lot in. I know we have a transfer ban and a lot of the talk around us has been questioning what we can do, but I certainly believe in the squad. We know the bar has been raised by Manchester City and Liverpool last season and there is the challenge – can we close the gap?”
“I’m not going to jump into the future because, as we know, this is a tough business and there are expectations everywhere. But I will certainly give all I can, that’s how I did it in my playing career, I tried to work as hard as I could get and get every ounce out of myself and I will do the same as a manager.”
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