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The Chelsea star midfielder Frank Lampard is really happy that the team has started well, and thinks that it is good that there hasn’t been many changes over the summer months.

“Continuity is nice, especially when you have won a double but you do want to add to it and make it better although at the same time you don’t want to add to it and make it worse,” Lampard said.

Chelsea are cruising at the top of the table and should have had another tennis score against a Stoke City side that were desperate not to get another 7-0 drubbing like the end of last season. They managed to hold Chelsea to just 2-0 but not because Chelsea were lacking in chances.

Chelsea just can’t seem to get themselves going this preseason, and they were absolutely awful in this game in Frankfurt. Frank Lampard rejoined he team after his illness, and Nicolas Anelka made his first appearance of the season, but even they couldn’t make the team look good.

The first goal was utter stupidity by Hilario, and Frankfurts second was a soft penalty after Lampard had equalised. It should have been 3-1 late on but a brilliant stop by Carvalho kept the score respectable (ish!).

The Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard admits that the two warm-up games against Mexico and Japan were not the best performances ever, but he believes that they are just another important part of England’s preparation.

He said: “These were tough games against two teams going to the World Cup finals.

“So we had been working hard, training hard and you also have to remember we were not playing settled teams. A lot of people, a lot of things were being tried out.

The Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard says that the Man Utd striker Wayne Rooney is the live-wire in the England camp, and will stop the rest of the team from being bored in their hotel rooms in-between matches in South Africa.

He said: “Wayne Rooney is full of energy and not just on the pitch.

“Some players go back to their rooms and watch films all day, but Rooney is never in his room!

There have been a few Chelsea transfer rumours coming out of Spain lately, and they are suggesting that the Brazilian star Kaka is keen on rejoining Carlo Ancelotti again at Stamford Bridge. Kaka has not really settled in Madrid, and it is said that he doesn’t like being upstaged by his more expensive midfield partner Ronaldo. Perhaps that is true, but the bottom line is that depite all the Galacticos in the team, Real Madrid have ended the season trophyless once again.

The ex-Chelsea coach tried extremely hard to lure Frank Lampard to Inter Milan when he took over the Italian giants, and now it seems that he could try again when he moves to Real Madrid this summer.

“I like players at the end of their careers. I love to have some players around 33 or 34-years-old.

The Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard is backing his team-mate Joe Cole to be England’s secret weapon in South Africa if Fabio Capello picks him in his final 23 players, and reckons the lack of playing time for Cole this season could work to Englands advantage.

Lampard said: “I hope Joe will be in the squad because he is my mate and he is a great player. He is the sort of player who gives a team something different.

The most interesting Chelsea transfer rumour today is the Sun’s assertation that the Blues are intending to bring Liverpool’s Yossi Benayoun in as a replacement for Joe Cole. Benayoun has been unsettled at Anfield and is usually used as a supersub by Rafael Benitez, and is looking to leave. The Sun thinks Chelsea could get him for £5m. Is he good enough to replace Cole?

Just for a change, none of the Chelsea transfer rumours in the Sunday papers make any mention of Sergio Aguero. Since it was reported in midweek that it was a “done deal”, there has been no mention at all. Hopefully no news is good news!

But there is the spectre of Jose Mourinho looming again, with the Mail predicting that Jose Mourinho will join Real Madrid this summer, and will immediately launch a bid to sign Frank Lampard.