Chelsea interim manager Frank Lampard believes Roman Abramovich’s system of hiring and firing managers stopped him winning more trophies during his playing career at Chelsea.

Lampard said: “I was always part of the Chelsea team that changed managers regularly.

“With hindsight, it is easy to say I had great success. I won three titles but I should have won five or six. That’s my feeling.”

Lamps spent 13 years at Chelsea, most of them under Abramovich — who got through 13 permanent managers in his 19 years.

And the ex-midfielder added: “We might have won more titles if we’d had more consistency and been able to work in one direction. And I feel like we should have.

“If you are trying to work for something, you look at the successful models at the top end of the league at the minute.

“You see managers that have been working there a long time, recruitment that is aligned with the type of squad and identity they want to bring and it works in a direction.

“You see Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal. So clearly if you want to get there, it’s something that hopefully aligns

“At the moment for us it hasn’t. We have to find a way that it does.

“Arsenal had quite a few years of not getting what they wanted, so they decided we are going to stick with this and maybe get it to work.

“Everyone has different pressures, so I don’t think you can say that the next manager should be here for five years because within that Chelsea need to have successes.

“But in an ideal world, the next manager would bring more stability.”