Chelsea caretaker boss Frank Lampard has urged fans not to lose faith in the club.
Chelsea have suffered a crisis-hit first season under new owner Todd Boehly.
But Lampard says: “My own life experience, I signed for Chelsea when we were a top-six or top-eight team and little did I know it but 15 years later when I left I came out with medals and trophies all over the place because of how the club moved forward.
“I’m not just patting myself on the back there, I was part of a huge process and saw this club grow into the most successful club in the modern era of the Premier League at that time.
“So there are a lot of great things about this club and the old saying “form is temporary, class is permanent” is quite good in football and when you see a club of Chelsea‘s size, and I see fantastic intentions to take the club forward.
“A lot of big clubs go through this process in some way, shape or form and the more successful you’ve been the more headlines it gets when you go into that moment. So the club just needs to take every step forward as it goes, but it’s an incredible club.
“This is a huge football club no matter what happens in the next month, six months, two years, three years. This is always going to be a successful football club now and I can’t speak highly enough of it. I would say that, obviously, because of my connection with the club, but I absolutely believe it.”