Manchester United defender Luke Shaw may be the world’s most expensive teenager, following his L28m move from Southampton, but he does not know who Tony Adams is.
That’s the claim of his now-former international colleague Frank Lampard, who revealed that it was a conversation between the two that helped him come to the decision that the time was right to retire.
Speaking to The Sun, Lampard said that he brought up the former Arsenal and England captain’s name in a conversation with the 19-year-old defender during the World Cup, but realised that Shaw didn’t have a clue who he was talking about.
“I was having a chat with Luke Shaw and I mentioned Tony Adams and he didn’t seem to know who I was talking about,” said Lampard, who announced his retirement from the international team last month after he left Chelsea to join New York City FC.