What Chelsea target Jadon Sancho said about Frank Lampard's impact on his career

Chelsea are in the race for a host of European clubs to sign Borussia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho and the England international has credited the Blues pair Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba has key inspirations during his career. Sancho has spent impressive time at the Bundesliga club after joining from Manchester City. Chelsea and Manchester United are currently battling it out for the £120million player. Sancho started his career, with a Southwark Under-11s team, it was Lampard and Drogba a little further west who most impressed a younger Sancho. "It was all about learning skills and expressing myself," he told The Independent late last year. "I like adapting that to a real game. It makes defending harder because opponents don't think you have those sort of skills. It gives you an advantage against some players and luckily enough it's been working out for me." He added: "Ronaldinho was the main guy I used to watch on YouTube. But I liked Frank Lampard quite a lot and Didier Drogba when they were playing for Chelsea. They were the three players I looked up to." Source: Standard

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