Lampard opens door for Cech to make sensational playing return for Chelsea

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard would have no problem in fielding Petr Cech between the posts after including the big man in his 25-Premier League squad.

Cech is easily regarded as one of the finest stoppers that we have had all-time, and helped the club win a number of trophies before he left the club to finish his top-level playing days with Arsenal

Cech, 38, retired from professional football at the end of the 2018-19 season after 15 years of sterling service in English football and is now a coach at the club, helping the younger stoppers, but after shocking the world, the club clarified that Cech had been called up in exceptional circumstances as a non-contract player.

“Petr has been training with the goalkeepers for a little while now. He has been training a lot of days with them which is valuable for experience [of the other goalkeepers] and that he is passing on that quality to them,” the manager explained to reporters following Tuesday’s 0-0 Champions League draw with Sevilla at Stamford Bridge.

“We had that space in the squad and we know this year, it looks like no other because of Covid and isolation so it was a very easy one. Pete still does his day job and he is there if we need him.

“He is fit, very fit. He is still relatively young. He finished playing when he possibly could have carried on. He has taken on his role at Chelsea very well and he has been very helpful to me and we work closely together. He trains fairly regularly and he is fit.”

Lampard admitted that he does not expect to have to draw on Cech’s services over the course of the season, but that he would have no doubts over fielding him should he need to.

“Whether we will see him much this season, I am not sure. Has I mentioned before, it depends on how the season goes with COVID and isolation. We felt it was a no-brainer to have Pete in the squad for that reason and it helps me training every day,” he added.

“When he is in such good form it can only help the goalkeepers we have to see one of the world’s best in the modern era amongst us.

“It is definitely not done for the romance. Pete certainly enjoys the training because that is how he is. I would enjoy training more if my calves didn’t go tight every time I tried to sprint these days. With Pete I wouldn’t expect to happen this year.

“But I do know with the way he is and how fit he is that if we are in crisis times then you couldn’t ask for much better than having Petr Cech around. I don’t expect it, but nobody expected what we have seen in the last six or seven months around the world.”

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