There are new contracts to be discussed; players and their agents tend to know roughly what other players are getting. If for some reason we employed Lampard then it would be for mega-bucks, he would almost certainly be one of the highest paid players in the team and no guarantee of even being...
Statesman for whom? He doesn't speak for me or my club. He's an over the hill player looking for one last pay cheque.
There's no position for him to fill and I don't want the club trying to create one for him, we've a great spirit in the team, let's not even think about pissing about with it.