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Frank Lampard will hold talks over his future with Derby owner Mel Morris after Monday\u2019s Sky Bet Championship play-off final.<\/p>\nFrank Lampard will hold talks over his future with Derby owner Mel Morris after Monday\u2019s Sky Bet Championship play-off final.<\/p>\n
Chelsea\u2019s record goalscorer has been linked with a return to Stamford Bridge as manager if they part company with Maurizio Sarri after Wednesday\u2019s Europa League final against Arsenal.<\/p>\n
Lampard has guided the Rams to within one win of the Premier League in his first season as a manager and they face Aston Villa at Wembley on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sarri will also discuss his future with the Chelsea hierarchy \u201cto know if they are happy with me\u201d after their final in Baku.<\/p>\n
Lampard, who won three league titles at Stamford Bridge, reiterated he was happy at Derby but will discuss the club\u2019s direction and his own future after Wembley.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI\u2019ve got two years left on my contract here and I see no further forward than Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will sit down with Mel after the game, which was planned before all this talk anyway, to see firstly what the result was on Monday because that\u2019s going to define how we chat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as that. I find it quite difficult because they (Chelsea) have a game coming up \u2013 more importantly for me we have a game coming up before that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd also they have a manager in Sarri who is trying to get them to win that final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of an obvious link all season. If I say it\u2019s maybe because of where we\u2019re at \u2013 in the final \u2013 and we\u2019re being talked about and I get linked because of my 13 years at the club, then I understand the link.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in terms of how I\u2019m seeing it, I don\u2019t want to think about it, I don\u2019t want to talk about it. I want to talk about Monday, I want to work with the team and get this over the line for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derby won 4-2 on aggregate in their semi-final against Leeds, the team caught spying on a Rams training session earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
Lampard and the squad celebrated wildly on the pitch and in the changing room, with the manager paying a \u00a32,800 bar bill afterwards.<\/p>\n
But the 40-year-old insisted his players have refocused.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t remember feeling so much determinations to win a game, that\u2019s why it spilled over at the end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely had to come back down to earth from that. We are calm and ready to play because beating Leeds in the semi-final might have felt great but this one is the one which really means something.\u201d<\/p>\n