Frank Lampard reveals he snubbed summer offers for “fantastic” Chelsea star

Frank Lampard admits he turned down offers for Kurt Zouma over the summer and he is delighted his French defender stayed put at Stamford Bridge. The centre-back’s future was under the spotlight after returning from a successful loan spell at Everton last season. Zouma, 25, is now thriving in the starting XI. Lampard said: “He has been fantastic. There was a belief that I had in Kurt because there was interest in the summer after we all know he had a very good loan at Everton last year.  “But I believed in him as I believed in Tomori – that is why I made the decisions I made pre-season in terms of where we were going to look defensively. It has been nice to get some stability, albeit because of injuries, between him and Fikayo in the last games. “It has been good to get them playing together to see the little bond they are getting on and off the pitch. It is a nice little story and it must continue, I suppose.”

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