• ‘He’s very settled at Aston Villa,’ says Lampard• Terry’s decision to start in management as a No 2 ‘a good choice’Frank Lampard has said he did not consider asking John Terry to join his coaching staff at
Chelsea last summer and believes his former teammate is benefiting from working as Dean Smith’s assistant at Aston Villa.
Terry, who returns to Stamford Bridge to sit in the away dugout on Wednesday, joined Smith’s backroom staff after retiring in 2018 and Lampard said he had never given thought to luring the former Chelsea captain from Villa.