Frank Lampard cannot complain that he was not given as much time at Chelsea as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Mikel Arteta have been at Manchester United and Arsenal respectively, according to Gary Neville. Lampard was sacked by Chelsea on Monday morning, 18 months after replacing Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge.
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Frank Lampard did not win a trophy as Chelsea head coach (Image: EXPRESS)
"Chelsea have never been like that, Frank knew that when he took the job and I can't imagine it was explained to him on day one that he would get three years come what may.
"I'd imagine it would have been explained to him that he would need to obviously gain results, that he would need to get Chelsea to the top of the league, spending all that money in the summer has accelerated that.
"Whilst obviously in a perfect world you'd always say a manager should get two, two-and-a-half years to prove himself, with Chelsea that has never been the case.
"So it's incomparable to say that Manchester United and Arsenal treat managers in the same way as Chelsea.