55 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019 FOOTBALL: CHELSEA MIDFIELDER INSPIRED

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Barkley reveals Blues boss was

his sticker-book hero as a boy

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my idols. Frank will help all the

midfielders here. He is a legend, the

highest-scoring midfielder in Premier

League history.”

Barkley, 25, revealed: “In training

he’s been saying ‘express yourself on

the pitch, take risks, don’t be too safe,

shoot, try to create chances’.

“It’s great to hear a coach say that

because you don’t want to play in your

shell. You want to be playing off the

cuff sometimes, to take chances and

make something happen.

“That’s what players like myself,

Mason Mount and Ruben Loftus-Cheek

• when he’s back – want to express on
  the pitch.”
  Chelsea travel to Austria tomorrow
  to take on Red Bull Salzburg, and the
  club’s final warm-up before their
  league opener against Manchester
  United on August 11 is at Borussia
  Moenchengladbach on Saturday.

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ROSS BARKLEY, like any schoolboy,
used to collect stickers of famous
footballers – and Frank Lampard was
one of his favourites.
The young Barkley used to be glued
to the TV on a Saturday night watching
his hero as he starred for Chelsea.
It was a dream come true for the
Merseysider to play alongside the
midfield great towards the end of
Lampard’s England career.
And even more so now he is playing
under the new Chelsea manager and
being told to think like a striker, to
express himself and take risks – shoot
when you can.
“As a kid you get stickers of players
and I had Frank,” said Barkley after
scoring twice in Sunday’s 4-3
pre-season win at Reading.
“To go from watching him on
Match of the Day to playing with him
for England and then have him as a
manager, it shows anything can
happen in football. He was one of

By Tony Banks

JERSEY BOYS:

Barkley on

England duty

with his idol

Lampard

BURY’S League One match

against MK Dons on Saturday

has been suspended – but

Bolton’s game against

Wycombe will go ahead.

Both clubs, who start the

season with a 12-point

deduction, were given a

deadline yesterday to prove

their financial viability to the

English Football League.

Bolton proved they can

meet the requirements but

Bury were unable to.

The EFL said in a

statement: “The board is not

satisfied it has received the

necessary evidence in regard

to the outstanding

information it requires that

demonstrates how Bury will

be funded moving forwards.”

boss Zinedine Zidane, below, Toshack

believes there are only two options.

“He has to leave, it’s as simple as

that – or the manager has to leave,”

said Toshack.

Toshack criticised Bale for standing

his ground on his £600,000-a-week

deal when taking a pay cut to

about £150,000 may have

offered him the chance to

return to the Premier League.

Toshack said sarcastically:

“Terrible to have to take a

pay cut to £150,000 a week

• how can they manage with
  that? It saddens me – sickens and
  saddens. And nothing comes out from
  Gareth. Nothing. Only his agent – it’s
  sad, sad for the football I know and
  loved, it saddens and sickens me.”

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language and if you make mistakes

early on then people forgive you.

“Even if you can say good morning

and good afternoon, 1-0, 2-0, that was

a corner, should have had a free-kick,

little things like that will endear you to

the people. Say what you actually

think. Have a little bit more

personality yourself. I haven’t

seen Gareth say anything.

I’m reading all this stuff

about the criticism that Bale

is taking and it’s justified.”

Real Madrid star Bale has

been left too upset to travel to

Munich for tonight’s game against

Spurs after the club pulled the plug on

his China move. And because the player

does not have a good relationship with

‘Bale criticism is justified’

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