Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, has insisted the club was right to allow club legend Frank Lampard leave in the summer.
The midfielder has since joined Manchester City on loan and scored his sixth goal for Manuel Pellegrini’s side, as they keep pace with the Blues at the top of the Premier League.
Pellegrini has been impressed by the former England international’s contribution and is ready to keep longer at the Etihad. But Mourinho remains defiant on the decision to let the 36-year-old go.
“We made the right decision,” Mourinho told reporters on Saturday night.
“When when you want to look forward, to look for the future and have people like Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic – they are the next ten years of the club.
“The project is prepare for the next ten years, not for the next year.”
The Portuguese tactician also insisted that although Lampard would have hindered his project, 36-year-old Didier Drogba and 34-year-old John Terry, are very vital to his plans.
“You can argue, ‘You have John Terry and Didier Drogba’. But that is different. Didier Drogba is a striker who is coming to help and support the strikers,” he continued.
“John Terry is the best central defender in English football and it doesn’t matter how old he is. He is the nucleus of the team that has to be developed.
“If you have a big player like Frank we would stop the development of the other guys.”
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