Frank Lampard believes Mikel Arteta sets a “great” example to young managers in the Premier League.
The Everton manager was speaking a day after Steven Gerrard was sacked by Aston Villa, with Lampard all too aware of the dangers moving into management can offer.
A Chelsea legend, the former England midfielder was dismissed by the club in 2021 before taking over at Goodison Park a year later.
Lampard, a figure so intrinsically linked to Gerrard during their playing careers, stressed managers needed to be given more time following his former England teammate’s departure.
The 44-year-old believes Arteta – a manager Arsenal have stuck with despite some difficult runs of form – should set a precedent.
Now sitting top of the Premier League, the trust Arsenal have shown in their manager is certainly being repaid.
Speaking at his press conference ahead of Saturday’s home game with Crystal Palace, Lampard described Gerrard as someone he has "a huge amount of respect for as a player, a person, a manager, a coach", and "a very tough lad".
And he said: "We all understand the jeopardy of the job we work in, and there are a lot of pluses to it, huge pluses. But as a coach in the modern day, you need time to work, circumstances to work.
"We’ve all got responsibilities, we’ve got to try to get results. But sometimes time isn’t afforded in the modern day.
"To go through the patches, to try to get growth, to try to get to where you want to, there’s always something in the road that catches you and moments and periods, and you have to give people time to do that.
"We have great examples in the Premier League. The coach who’s top, rightly lauded as an amazing coach - there’s been many a time when people have questioned whether he should be in his job. Other coaches...(where) people start to appreciate the job they do over time. As a general thing, I think that would be what I would look at."
