Chelsea boss Frank Lampard appreciates being a role-model for Mason Mount.
Mount had recently admitted Lampard was his hero growing up.
And the manager said in a social media chat: "It's a strange feeling, but it's nice [to be idolised by Mount].
"One of the beauties of me coming back and getting this job was because I knew the academy well.
"I trained with a few of the lads like Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Andreas Christensen [as a player].
"Obviously Mason and Tammy [Abraham] were a bit younger than that - but I knew the players.
"When you have an academy that runs like Chelsea's and they develop players like Mason, Tammy, Fikayo [Tomori] from the age of eight or nine, they have a real feeling for the club.
"I'm sure Tammy looked up to Didier Drogba, Fikayo would have looked up to John Terry... so it's a nice feeling."
On Mount, Lampard continued: "I love working with the young players here and it helps if Mason says those nice things about me, I like it.
"I just try to make him better and it's easy when you have that feeling between you and we work hard on the training pitch.
"What he did last year was incredible and he'll keep getting better."
