Ready for new season

Hello, it's Frank again

The clock's ticking to the start of the Premiership and I'm really looking forward to it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my holidays and really needed a break but it's left me feeling more ready for a season than ever before.

Basically we at Chelsea want our league back. Manchester United took it from us last season and rightly so, so all credit to them. But from the very outset, that's the main thing for me. The Premiership's where I started and, don't get me wrong, I love the Champions League and would love to win it but it's the league title first and foremost.

Everyone's been chatting about Manchester United and all their signings. I don't know a lot about Nani and Anderson but they seem to be good players, and I know Carlos Tevez is a handful - we saw that for ourselves twice last season when we played West Ham.

But everyone's looking at us wondering why we've not spent big in the summer. I don't think we needed to and I don't look at Man Utd's signings and worry about the quality of them. In fact, I relish the challenge and think we've added to our squad really well.

Florent Malouda's stood out both in training and in the Community Shield. It was a cracking goal, he's technically very good and fast, and showed he's got a good strike on him. I've been really impressed by him.

Then there's Steve Sidwell, who we got on a free from Reading. He's a very different player but has made just as much of an impact. I love players with a strong fighting spirit - he's definitely got that and he's got this great English mentality which Chelsea will certainly benefit from. He's not afraid to get stuck in - we saw that against Reading last season and he's the sort of hard-working player I really like.

It's probably wrong of me to single out just those guys as all the new signings have made a real mark already. Chelsea's a real family club from top to bottom, and all the guys have slotted in like they've been there for a couple of seasons.

Obviously there'll be no Arjen Robben and that's a shame - he's a quality player and a really good friend of mine. But the move was right for him and this stuff goes on in football all the time. It would have been great if he'd stayed but sadly it wasn't to be.

Going back to the imminent start of the season, my goal is to win everything. That's not to say we're going to go out there and win the quadruple - no team has ever done that and no one can go out making those sort of statements. It's just that's the mentality at the Bridge - we just want to win everything every time.

There's been a lot of talk about us playing more attractive football and that's what we want but the manager's blueprint, quite rightly, is to win. We really like to pass the ball around the park and we want to go out there playing attractive football but that's not always possible. Sometimtes you really need to fight for those wins and, with the injuries we have, we might have to do that from the start of the season.

I'm not that worried about the injuries. The big guys like John Terry and Didier Drogba aren't out for a long time and anyway we've got plenty of cover and we have to be confident we can cope without the injured players.

Everyone in the club's got the desire and everyone has got the message that it's all about winning the league. I only have to think back to our previous Premiership title wins to realise how much it means. It's for those sort of moments that you train so hard all year round.

I've read in the papers Jose Mourinho saying he's mellowed but he's always been a pretty mellow guy to me. Whenever I've had one on ones with him, he's already very calm, as he is in training. The only time he every gets particularly excitable is, say, at half-time when we're not playing our best.

But I don't expect him to be much different this season. He's got the same aims as everyone - to win everything, and that starts on Saturday.

Comments

[fauzan]

amazing playmaker in the world
maybe sometimes he is want come to my country
i from indonesia

go go go frank

[fauzan]

woow frank is true player football. i want he is come to my country.. like it

[Carmen]

Well, congrats to the team for winnning the first game! Some news came to my ear that you played quality football. I hope you really try to do your best this season and that this will be your greatest so far. You owe something to yourself. Winning the Champions League and the title of Footballer of the Year. Can you do it, eventually?
You know, you are a blessed player to have a manager like Jose who helped you in difficult situations. He put his faith in you for so manny times, when people did not like you so much anymore. Don't let him down! Don't let your team down! Don't let your fans down, because we like a Frank Lampard who fights for every ball and speculates any chance he is given to. Good luck with the next game!

[meili]

GO chelsea! we can beat all those teams! I BEilieve we will get Champion, PremiersHip and will be quadrople WINNER
Lampard your a legend!
one of the best players ever!!!

Great You stay AT Chelsea for rest of U career

[Becca]

Hii. It's great to have you back!!!
Course Chelsea are gonna win this season. Even if Man Utd won the Community Shield it dosent matter because thats all they will be holding this year!
CHELSEA all the way! xx

[elen]

come on chelsea!!!!!!

[Natalie]

Oooooh great blog Frank! And Chelsea will definitely get back that title :-D
xx

[Paul]

DERBY COUNTY!!!! PremierSheep!!

[tom]

liverpool all the way torres and gerrard guna rip chelsea to shreds

[Dane]

yeh come on chelsea! we can beat all those teams! We all want to win everything! Lampard your a legend! one of the best players ever!!!

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[Yasi]

WE ALL BELIVE IN THAT CHELSEA IS THE BEST AND WE WILL EVERYTHING.

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[Alice]

frank lampard is so gorgeous