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title: "Exclusive: Pundit claims Chelsea players would follow Lampard to Crystal Palace"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/exclusive-pundit-says-flurry-of-chelsea-players-could-follow-lampard-to-crystal-palace-e129/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Jake Sanders"
section: "Chelsea Football Club"
published: "2021-05-28T05:40:53Z"
modified: "2021-05-28T05:40:53Z"
---

# Exclusive: Pundit claims Chelsea players would follow Lampard to Crystal Palace

**When Frank Lampard was appointed Derby manager, a couple of Chelsea’s youngsters followed him to Pride Park.**

And former Crystal Palace striker Marcus Bent believes that if Lampard becomes the new Crystal Palace boss, a similar situation could occur.

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On that occasion, Fikayo Tomori and Mason Mount, two players have gone on to become England internationals, joined Lampard at Derby and both played a key role in the Rams reaching the play-offs.

Lampard hadn’t managed Chelsea at that time but having spent 18 months in the dugout in west London, there’s every chance some out of favour players could link-up with him at Selhurst Park, should Steve Parrish decide to hire him.

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Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Tammy Abraham are two of those out of favour at Stamford Bridge and would appear, whilst highly rated midfielder Billy Gilmour is in desperate need of regular first-team football having been handed his senior Blues debut by Lampard.

Bent exclusively told **[The Transfer Tavern](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/)**:

*“Going to Crystal Palace, because of the finances, there is always a lot of loan deals because there isn’t a lot of finances to go out and buy players.*

*“If Frank was in there, he would probably bring some young players in on loan, show what they’re about, give them that experience.*

*“I think that Frank probably has a few things up his sleeve, he could probably talk to Chelsea.”*