Frank Lampard talks iconic managers, Coventry's start to the season & more with Jamie Redknapp!

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Lampard on management, Mourinho and Ancelotti's influence, and Coventry's start

Frank Lampard speaks with Jamie Redknapp about manager fashion, Mourinho and Ancelotti's management styles, modern player management, social media, and Coventry's start after promotion. Lampard stresses trust, calmness and togetherness, and argues that a promoted side must drop its ego, adapt to the Premier League's punishment, and use home momentum to fight for survival.

► Subscribe to Sky Sports Premier League: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsPL ► Watch Sky Sports with NOW: https://bit.ly/NOWPremierLeagueYT Frank Lampard and Jamie Redknapp visit Thom Sweeney in London, the Coventry manager’s favourite tailor. They look through iconic manager outfits, discuss Coventry's start to the season in the Premier League, why he decided to go into management and more! 00:00 Lampard’s passion for fashion 04:16 Harry Redknapp 04:43 Jose Mourinho 10:10 Carlo Ancelotti 11:22 André Villas-Boas 13:19 Tim Sherwood 13:49 Gareth Southgate 14:00 Pep Guardiola 14:32 Coventry’s start to the season 16:56 Why management? 17:54 What is the benchmark for this season? 19:10 Newcastle game premierleague football franklampard ► Premier League highlights: https://bit.ly/PL2627HL ► MNF, FNF, SNF & Super Sunday analysis: https://bit.ly/SkyMatchAnalysis ► Gary Neville Podcast: https://bit.ly/GaryNevillePodcast ► Saturday Social: https://bit.ly/SkySaturdaySocial ► Buy this season’s shirts: https://bit.ly/SkySportsShop More from Sky Sports on YouTube: ► Sky Sports: http://bit.ly/SkySportsSub ► Sky Sports Boxing: http://bit.ly/SSBoxingSub ► Sky Sports Cricket: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyCricket ► Sky Sports Darts: https://bit.ly/SubSkySportsDarts ► Sky Sports Football: http://bit.ly/SSFootballSub ► Sky Sports F1: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyF1 ► Sky Sports Golf: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsGolf ► Sky Sports News: http://bit.ly/SkySportsNewsSub ► Sky Sports Retro: http://bit.ly/SkySportsRetroSub ► Sky Sports WSL: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsWSL ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SkySportsFootball ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skysportsfootball ► TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skysportsfootball ► X: https://x.com/SkySportsPL ► Website: https://www.skysports.com ► To enquire about licensing Sky Sports content, you can find out more here: https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/31754/11434270/license-sky-sports-footage

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I actually got this from your WhatsApp uh profile pick. Uh he's had a bit of a glow up there. >> In a moment where I will be maybe very very down or very up. I would think how Carlo would be like that. I think both our faces say oh there don't they? >> Well, you don't need to see that one, do we? We don't need to see that one. If you think you can come up and and play a certain way, I think it it it will punch you in the face at some. >> Normally years ago, Frank would be in dressing rooms doing interviews or in offices. Now >> when's Luke? Where is it? Come here, Luke. >> He must have done well. >> He's done well. So Luke Luke dresses you right. >> Yeah. >> Not as good as he looks. >> I know. Listen, I know that. >> Did you know you want to be on TV today? Look how smart I did. I'm not really no >> t-shirt. Is what it is. >> Anyway, >> yeah. >> Premier League manager changed a bit and they know with how they dress years ago used to be like maybe the odd overcoat and remember my dad wearing >> Frank's the best dress now anyway. >> He is. >> So when you come in when you dressing now it does feel like it's changed so much Frank doesn't it with how managers look on the touch line and some you had that spell of wearing a tracksuit now bit smarter on the on the line. You gave me a nudge about that, didn't you? >> Some good couple of good friends when you need to smarten up a little bit. It's it's a mixture of uh on the line can be a bit being comfortable is a good thing sometimes and you feel like that. But >> I've I've stepped away from that now. And obviously Luke looks after us now and helps me out with a look. Yeah, I'm not I'm not mad on it. I'm not like I'm checking how I look compared to everyone else. But you can see there's a little batch of stylist managers that are coming. Some of the European >> You've always liked your fashion though, haven't you? >> I have. I've always liked it. And um I actually probably follow you a bit, James. Not just saying that, but >> well my brother I used to follow my brother. I used to nick his gear. Yeah. >> And then you' nick some of mine. I remember we used to come back to B with a bit of my old tashini and beer gear used to it. Never looks as good on me as you have me now. No, it did look good. What else would you uh look at Frank? I mean that's you say you go with neutral. I've seen you you got you had a coat. >> I have I have that exact that exact coat and uh as I say I like to go simple and I think with something like a nice coat as you say when it gets cold. One of my problems is superstition and uh really yeah >> yeah so if I wear certain how does that things well um >> how does that work out >> well it will literally be I wear something in a in a good run until we lose or or whatever which worked in the championship >> times it was great last year but then I got you a lot of money last year >> I was worried that I look like I've only got one outfit last year but it's cuz we were winning every week and then now now it's yeah it might be that I'll change a little something sometimes I'll change a smaller detail than you might not see if I get comfortable in something. But it's it's um it's a bad road to go down the superstition. >> But dad was my dad was like that, wasn't he? I don't know if you remember when he was because he used to when he was at West Ham with >> if he if they won a couple of games, he'd keep the same tie on. That was his big fit in the same tie. But >> yeah, >> I get it. You know, were you super as a player? >> Yeah, I was. I was. And >> what were they? >> They were like more pregame things like pre-match meal. I would walk the dog and I'd do the same walk and I'd do a lap and if if I scored, I'd do another lap or something like that. >> You must have done some laps around the goals you got. All little bits like that. Right. So, let's go and have a look at the suits you're going to get made, Frank. >> So, on the on the theme of managers fashion, as we're in obviously one of your favorite stores here, I've dug out a few classics. I'm going to start with someone. This this I actually got this from your WhatsApp uh profile pick. Uh, be honest, Frankie. You're looking good. You're looking good there, mate. What do you think to that one? >> Yeah. Have you Have you filtered it or something? >> AI. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm happy with that. That's is that that's from the Emirates first game. >> Yeah. You like that? >> Yeah. Yeah. That's That is um That's Luke sorting me out there. Tom Sweeny all over. Nice and simple. I got a bit cold as the night went on actually. I was in my t-shirt. >> Yeah. But you didn't care. You were looking good. >> But I'm going to just stick with this one. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, it was No, I'm happying myself there, James. Thanks for that one. >> This is um bit of old school, you know. But now these tractors have come back in. How's he looking? >> Oh, he's looking great. You know what? That's like, you know, you just picture something, it just throws you back in time. Yeah. Remember >> you said >> vintage shell suit. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That wasn't probably far off your West Ham debut there, Frank, wouldn't it? >> It wouldn't be far off. I can picture Harry and my dad stood there. My dad maybe with also with like the bigger coats on like the puffer type ones. But um I like it. So, I got another one there, Frank. This felt like full rascal mode, Mourinho, like when he was causing havoc. Yeah. What What What was that? What memories does that bring back for you? >> Uh oh, incredible memories. You're right. How you how you phrased it, full rascal mode, but it was the creation of this uh machine at Chelsea where we had this really good group of players who were we were in our 25 26 years of age and obviously a talented squad, but we needed a bit of extra. We needed a little bit more bit more nastiness, a bit more anyway, we can win a game and we all know it now. It's all older news, but this was when he was in that full >> mode. And um yeah, remember that the big it's it's it's like this thing we was talking about before, but then when Matt some people can carry off a look and it just absolutely suits them and Jose had that he was suave at the time when he came in, he looked slick, he looked so great and his hair and sort of the good looks and then his clothing matched it. All right, things you said, what stuck out for you, Frank, now how you coached, but obviously he was slightly different to what maybe you're doing now, but like you came into Chelsea and changed everything. What did he What do you take from his management style? >> Um, well, everything in training was very very organized and it was very forward thinking then. Things that we do now with I think Jose was at the forefront of it many years ago, but the biggest influence on me was his his manner and his trans transmitting self-confidence into me that he just exuded. >> Um, and it was so authentic with him. Many many managers in my opinion have tried to follow that and be and be Jose. I don't think it works necessarily. Um but he would transmit that into me sort of there's not a million conversations. Sometimes a manager just gives you that feeling of trust and um I think I was probably a good uh I was good for him because I just get on with my job. I would train. I churn out games a lot and I think he knew what he was getting from me. But I felt this incredible amount of trust from him in terms of making me feel like I I was a better player than maybe even I was, you know, like the support that he gave me. And that that's the big I get asked that question a lot. And it's the tactical setup. >> If you ask me, can you remember all the meetings and that? Not really other than probably seeing Mallay, Lampard, and I know Balac SM whatever it was. There's 433. >> Good midfield. I remember chasing you rebounding the pitch. So it's it's probably a beauty for him to coach, but the simple things that were kind of he he would probably assume with a dude that you should know what you're doing in an eight roll, whatever. But it was all the bits around it that made you feel like a bit man. And this thing he had about winning and his documentary obviously that come out recently and it became a lot people speak to me and go he was just pushing a winning machine. He he was like that. There was almost no other option than to win and it kind of became ingrained in us as a squad. Do you feel now because players he he said it not I remember him saying about our players now their mentality is different. He said you're >> you have to extract more out of players in terms of everyday training how they handle themselves maybe not quite I think he might use the analogy it sounds a bit harsh but like they're more babyish now players. M um do you feel that there is something in that in terms of you how much more you've got to manage the younger players now and push them and guide them and maybe a little bit more not so much on the field but almost on off the field with players. >> Definitely. And I think the the danger of that is that you become too heavy-handed with the players because you have to support them >> even if sometimes you're going you need a harder hand here because I think you have to always sort of think about what's what's my win? What's what's the progression for the player? And if you go in too strong to to try and go, you must >> after a game you meet. >> I'm talking about through the week. I'm talking about living and breathing and sleeping. Football is your profession that it has to be what you take home. It has to be how you sleep, how you behave, and all this thing. And and I think one of the biggest problems is now that so many players are surrounded by so many opinions and individual coaches and and agents and all these things. >> I think we were probably quite lucky in in our era. We were we were footballing family, right? But there wasn't much else other than what my dad would tell me about how I played and then I my coach was my he was the man. Now there's a lot around players and and I think players and I >> social media as well. >> Social media absolutely. >> How would you have dealt with social media Frank if you play? >> Um >> would you have been on it? Would you have looked at it? >> I probably I probably would have tried to stay away from it cuz our version of that was reading the newspapers. Yeah. >> And seeing three out of 10. Five out of 10. And I I remember my reaction to that was don't look, but then you sort of through the day I need to have a quick look just just in case. So I think we're all tempted and players really are now. It's a natural thing that they get their phones. >> Um and I probably would have looked, but I think it sounds maybe silly, but when you're playing well, you can probably have a look. When you're playing bad, don't. And just stay humble to it and going, what do I need to do to start playing better? But it we've I speak to players about this stuff a lot cuz I think some players now are looking for an absolute tactical solution from you as the coach as to how they're getting the team and why things are not going right. Going back to basic values sometimes it's lads you got to really train at your maximum every day. You got to really be a great >> Yeah. But you we we all read the stories, I'm sure the players do, of Kobe Bryant and then they have these amazing quotes, like two or three lines of quotes, which is, you know, the 4 a.m. club who's up at 4 a.m. or whatever. >> And I just hope sometimes the players don't read that and then put it aside in their own lives. You got to do whatever your version of of that is, you know, because it just it just means everything. And a lot of the top players, the the big boys are the ones you see at the top of their game. There's a version of that somewhere for me. >> The Dawn, see him there? I mean, that's he's had a bit of a glow up there. He's sorry. Sorry. He's that that was when he was at Chelsea, but then he had a big glow up after that, Frank. He went That's a He's looking cool there. That's a full >> black and white suit. That's a slightly different style. That's a business. He means business there, doesn't it? >> Is it fair to say we all have a bit of a glow at our age? >> I think they call it midlife crisis quite positively, haven't we? We all do that. Yeah, he he did. And and I I absolutely noticed that gl you can you see everyone else? like the eyebrow when the eyebrow goes up. He's cool. He was cool though, frankly. >> I I loved him. You know, he he was very much chill and cheese to what Jose was. Jose was intense and the stuff that I've talked about with him. Uh Carlo um was a was much more of a father figure um support mechanism for me. So, it it probably gave off the same reaction from me as to what Jose did, but it was a different way. It was bit softer, >> but he definitely had a hard edge. You know about it. I didn't feel it so much. I saw it in the dresser and around the place. In a moment where I will be maybe very very down or very up, I would think how would Carlo be like that? He would just be straight down the line. And and I think that's a big part of his success. >> Interesting one there. That seems like nice relationship you got there. >> I think both have faces all day, don't they? Sometimes I found that although you might not have the best relationship with coaches because obviously that famous incident in um when you're playing Napoli and obviously with the coaching he spoken about it but maybe you learn as much from the the the those moments as much as you do from a famous like halftime intervention from Jose or something like that. Definitely Jamie and and it's in my role now I I've not say matured I've learned more than enough to sort of look back now and see things about what that period of football club looked like from the manager point of view and from where I was and and I don't agree with all of my reactions. I I was a player that had played game after game after game for me. First I remember having about 10 games on the bench kept what every meeting flipped chart would go he's not in it again not in it again and I suffered with that a bit and in the end I came through it and it was a difficult period for the manager and for me in our own ways and I saw his some of his comments recently and I think he's reflected on it as well himself and that's what we all do. >> You probably weren't far off the same age as him. >> I was a bit older than him. Yeah, I think >> I mean that's why it's credit, you know, even Herzler at Brighton, the job that he's doing when he's, >> you know, the other day I was at the training ground, Frank, the player of the the the player of the um month was older than him and the go the best goal of the season so far, goal of the month, he was older than him as well, but he still manages to look after those players. So, so it's interesting how you get that balance right. >> It is. And I I look back and I understand how hard the job would have been for Andre because we were a strong group. >> We had some big personalities within the group. So, we had to deal with a lot of that. When I when he spoke recently, and I'm very aware of that, but one thing I think he got wrong was he said that when we won the Champions League final, we were not together because we were celebrating different directions. And I didn't get that. I was a bit like we were we were a very together group for a long period of time. He he came in for a shorter period of event. I think it was a tough moment for him. >> This it didn't kick off. I'm surprised it didn't. The old Gilelay. >> Yeah. >> The Sherwood Gilelay. What did you think to that one? >> I I I love Tim >> and I love the Gilelay and I like it. I don't I don't know why I think it's still there, isn't it? A bit or not? >> A little bit. >> Yeah, it's still I suppose here you question the mixture of wearing your sort of shirt his own jump and then the Tottenham one. Maybe he just was a bit bit cold on the day and waxed on the Tottenham one or was that his look week in week out? >> I don't know. But he's uh he liked the he like throwing it on the floor, didn't he? >> Yeah. >> Gareth Southgate. >> Yeah. I think it's we talk about suiting what you are as a person. That for me that suits Gareth. He's England manager wearing the waist. >> Head master, would he? This one divides opinion. As I did it, I started doing the pet there, the old scratch on the chin. But what about the um that that stayed for a long I mean that we talk about superstitions. He probably just kept wearing that cuz they kept winning every week. >> Yeah, maybe. Um I remember seeing this and I think some people can carry things off and I think Pep can carry most things off. >> Oh, we don't need to see that one, do we? We don't need to see that one. And that that was a you know you wear that if you wore that as a manager Frank you you wouldn't want to win because you with superstitions that was a shock >> you got regrets for that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So let's take it forward obviously now Franks we've gone through the fashion so far I was doing your game against uh Nottingham Forest. I thought he played brilliantly. Got everything right. Players worked so hard. Obviously big moments great winning goal. Um you then have a three-we break. Is that braid a good thing or a bad or did you want to go bouncing into that Newcastle game? >> Um I I think I think it's quite a good thing. I get your point. Sometimes momentum feeling is great. I was happy to take a good feeling into the break because the the players for more than anything the players needed the relief. Um we've got a couple of injuries some shorter term the players will be back this side of the break. That extra week helped us. We've got some longerterm ones. It just means three weeks without a game. Uh we've also got some players that have have come in um late in the window who need training and need to get up to speed. So I'm I'm fine with it. I just want to keep hold of that momentum when we start again at Newcastle. >> Yeah. So you got a busy obviously busy period coming up now Frank and that that result does that give you um not just you the players because you know it's like when you come into this league you won I think 25 games last year in the Championship with a fantastic run look really strong and then you come in here and you've had a tough start. you played obviously at Arsenal, Man City. Doesn't get much more difficult than that and then you get that first win away. How how important you get that momentum going now and it's a it's a Monday night at home with a crowd just to keep that going. >> Yeah. And and it was important to say to the players to to make them aware that Arsenal and Manchester City away. They're not games that will that will define our season and where we want to get to because they are they're the hardest places to go potentially. And turns out the Brighton are probably the full form team when we played them and had a man sent off. So I was trying to frame it for the players to not because a lot of them haven't haven't played in the Premier League. Some of them have moved up from league two league one. And so it's a big deal. We did the steps of the ladder, the rungs when you go up, you step up into something, you go, "This is too too fast for me or so to get the to get the win at Knots Forest and you could feel it in the dressing room, the feeling afterwards and and when I watched the game back, I didn't absolutely love it as you don't you watch it back with a sort of a bit of a tactical we could definitely improve in lots of things, but one thing I loved was the spirit, the togetherness, the willing to run and fight for each other, which I know every manager will say that. It's like a buzz phrase, simple one, but if you're going to get results for us in this Premier League, you get