I played under Frank Lampard but we didn’t get on at all… if we met on a night out we’d probably get into a fight
ANDRE WISDOM reckons he’d get into a fight with Frank Lampard if he saw him on a night out.
The defender, 29, played for the Chelsea caretaker boss during their time at Derby County in the 2018-19 season.
Wisdom became a bit-part player under Lampard, as the Rams made it to the Championship play-off final.
Speaking four years on, the former Liverpool ace has lifted the lid on what his experience under the Chelsea legend was like.
Asked about what he makes of Lampard being back at Stamford Bridge as caretaker boss, he told The Beautiful Game podcast: “His job is his job, all the best to him. I don’t have no bad vibes to him.
“If he was sat here would I speak to him? Nah. What is the other guy called? Jody Morris. I just didn’t rate them.
“They’re just not my type of people. On a night out I’d probably get into a fight with them.”
On what Lampard was like as a manager, Wisdom said: “My experience was weird. It didn’t feel like I was at football.
“I think what kind of threw me was the fact it was Frank Lampard. I don’t want it to be misinterpreted but it was not like I was in awe.
“I think I expected something that I wasn’t getting. I just expected more from him as a man. We had a good team as well so it’s easy when everything is going well.
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“We got to the (play-off) final and lost against Aston Villa. But I think it was cliquey. It felt like there was people speaking behind other people’s backs.
“I remember in pre-season some of the lads came back late or something and the next day we were all running for it.
“I understand the message, but it just felt very negative. Like I said, I’ve had one manager scream at me during my career and it was Lampard.”
Wisdom, who played just 13 times that season, then opened up further on the incident – adding: “I didn’t react. We got smashed 4-0 by Aston Villa (in the league) and I said some comments after the game, and he just went in.
“It was nothing to do really with football. It was more about me as a person which was very strange to me. He said some things that were just very strange. You know when someone says to you, ‘They’re not scared of you’.
“He said I bully people. I know this might sound egotistical but if you ask anybody they will say, ‘Nah, Andre is cool’. As a player, he was a don. We just didn’t click.”
Wisdom has been without a club since leaving Derby in 2021.
He was stabbed during a robbery in June 2020, and claims that he has not been the same player since.
The former England youth international said: “It was frustrating as when I’ve come out of hospital after like three days, I had a couple of operations, it was like my body just wasn’t the same.
“I tried to get back into football and it wasn’t the same, I wasn’t getting the same output in terms of power or speed.”