Lampard wants Hudson-Odoi at Chelsea

It looks like Callum Hudson-Odoi will be staying at Stamford Bridge. New Chelsea manager Frank Lampard spoke about the English youngster and his future at the club and it looks like Hudson-Odoi will get his opportunity to prove himself.

“He is going to be central for us on the pitch and that is the opportunity that is really in front of him now,” Lampard told reporters. “So that’s what I will speak to him about and I hope he stays. I am not going say things that are pie in the sky. I am not going to say: ‘This is all going to be your way’. But knowing his talent he can be central to this team, he can be central to an England team.

“I am going to say I want to work with him, I want to drive him forward. I want to improve him as a player and he can show right here at Chelsea, the club he came through the academy at, that he is going to be an absolute world-class player – because I truly believe that”, Lampard concluded.