Mourinho Admits Frank Lampard Will Have To Be Used More Sparingly at Chelsea: Nightly Soccer Report

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has admitted that Frank Lampard will be used more sparingly in the upcoming season.

Lampard, 35, will continue to be a key influence for Chelsea in the 2013-14 season, but he won’t be playing as many games as he did during the 2012-13 season. Mourinho said:

“The role doesn’t have to change. What has to change is the way we analyze competition. Before we didn’t analyze. Before it was: ‘Every match, he plays.’ Sometimes I wanted to give him a rest in a League Cup match and he would say: ‘If you give me a rest, the next match I will not be the same because I have to play every three days.’

“In this moment we have just to analyze competition and make some choices, because I believe he is the same player, with the difference that he is 35 and the time [needed] to recover from match to match is not the same for a man of 35 to a man of 25. That’s the only point. Now we have to analyze the fixtures, analyze the matches, analyze the week we have and to make a few choices.

“Frank can’t play 60 matches like he did before, but the quality of the player and what he represents for the way I like to play football is exactly the same. He’s intelligent, he’s open, he has a very good relationship with me. He knows that I’m very experienced and he knows what I did, for example, with Makelele here in the last two years of Makelele [when the Frenchman played 87 times for the club as he approached his mid-30s]. He knows I know how to do it with players of his age, because at the end of the day we have to be just clever, because the player is the same.”

Here are tonight’s world soccer news headlines:

Premier League

• José Mourinho admits Frank Lampard will have to be used more sparingly — The Guardian
• Luis Suárez price tag at £50m-plus as Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers plays hardball with Arsenal — Telegraph
• Liverpool warn Arsenal over Luis Suárez chase and call for loyalty — The Guardian
• Luis Suarez to demand Arsenal transfer talks as Liverpool stand firm — The Independent
• Liverpool urge Luis Suárez to stay loyal and reject Arsenal’s advances — The Guardian
• Dan Gosling’s move collapses as Crystal Palace stall — Shields Gazette
• Why are Arsenal trying to sign Luis Suárez? Because, finally, they can — The Guardian
• Wayne Rooney Twitter picture shows striker will return against Stockholm next month — The Mirror
• Sunderland offered Wes Brown chance to quit club — Shields Gazette
• Fox loses appeal asking for injunction against Dish’s ‘Hopper’ ad-skipper — Hollywood Reporter
• West Ham United must pay £70m bank debt before Olympic Stadium move — The Guardian
• Cattermole could leave Sunderland for Hull as Di Canio continues revolution — The Mail
• The Premier League transfer market seems so far unaffected by FFP — Counter Attack
• Manchester City rise to top of global pay charts, Dodgers soar to challenge — Sporting Intelligence
• Cardiff City: Sam Hammam urges fans to back Vincent Tan — BBC Sport

Ligue Un

• Lyon’s Clement Grenier scores tremendous spinning golazo in friendly against Real Madrid — Dirty Tackle

La Liga

• Roberto Soldado asks to leave Valencia — Cartilage Free Captain

Major League Soccer

• D.C. United & Mayor Gray reach preliminary deal for soccer stadium at Buzzard Point — Washington Post
• Sporting KC helps make city a soccer boomtown, with stadium major attraction — Sports Business Daily

International soccer

• FIFA Executive Committee member: Qatar World Cup a “blatant mistake” — Pro Soccer Talk

UEFA Champions League

• Juventus triumph in Champions League revenue carve-up — SportsPro

Football League

• Celtic accept increased QPR offer for Gary Hooper — Sky Sports
• Stephen Ireland set to join Villa team-mate Shay Given at Doncaster — The Mirror

Serie A

• Gonzalo Higuain and Jose Reina pass medicals at Napoli — Sky Sports

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