Jody Morris says he didn't become Everton coach because of Frank Lampard's message to him

dailystar.co.uk:

Chelsea player Jody Morris has claimed that he turned down a role at Everton owing to what Frank Lampard told him. Morris, 43, was Lampard’s assistant at both Derby County and the Blues.

And before then, the pair were even team-mates at Chelsea and the England Under-21s. But when Lampard, 43, took up the job with the Toffees, the former midfielder decided it was best that he waited until another club came along with a vacant first-team manager oppotunity.Morris, speaking exclusively to Ladbrokes at the launch of their 5-A-Side bet on Chelsea v Crystal Palace, said: “When me and Frank [Lampard] first left Chelsea, I was approached by a Championship club with regard to being their number one and I called Lamps straight away to ask him what he thought.

He told me to 'absolutely go and talk to them'. It was a quality club, and I went through a three or four-week period where I'd actually got my head around the idea of being a manager, and not an assistant."“I always knew I was going to be a manager one day anyway; I'd left my role managing the academy team at Chelsea to join Frank at Derby - I managed my own staff there, so I felt it was only going to be a matter of time until I was in a managerial role.”On February 3, shortly after Lampard took over the Everton dugout, the club confirmed the appointment of another former Blues player, Ashley Cole, as first-team coach from Chelsea’s academy.

He joined a backroom staff consisting of assistant managers Joe Edwards and Duncan Ferguson, and coach Paul Clement. Do you think Morris would be a worthwhile addition to the Everton backroom staff?