Frank Lampard has has hailed Chelsea’s Champions League win as a ‘great achievement’ and says Tuchel has done a ‘fantastic job’.

Lampard was sacked by Chelsea at the end of January with the team ninth in the Premier League and was replaced by Tuchel.

The German made an immediate impact following his arrival at Stamford Bridge as he guided Chelsea to a fourth-placed finish in the Premier League and a victory over Manchester City in the Champions League final.

Lampard told the BBC as cited by the Metro: ‘Obviously, you never want to lose your job, I’m in pretty good company at Chelsea, it happens, it’s the brutal reality of football at the top level.

“With reflection, it’s been nice to spend some time out of the game.

“I’m pretty proud of the job I did, it was an honour to manage the club. I came in at a tough time with the [transfer] ban and loss of Eden Hazard.

“Worked really hard in year one to get into the Champions League and Mason [Mount] and people like that, developing young players was a huge deal for me.

“I’m happy, you don’t want to lose your job but it was a huge experience for me.

Asked if he would have done anything differently: “I can probably sit down and talk to you about a lot of things, that’s a manager’s job, there will be a lot of things you can do differently.

“I’m very proud of year one, in year two there were different expectations, different complications. Every team had problems this year, as did we and I left my job. I can’t go back and look back in a negative way. I only want to use it to look positively going forward.

“When you work towards something you want to be there, you want to be the manager but I will never lay claim to that.

“I was part of the early foundations potentially but Thomas has done a fantastic job getting us there. I will say when I watched it, first I am a Chelsea person.

“The Chelsea fans are happy and the club deserves that, but secondly to see Mason and Reece perform at that level and people like [Edouard] Mendy, [Ben] Chilwell and Thiago [Silva] who came in in my time there makes me pretty proud.

‘But it was a great achievement by them and they were very well managed.

“I’m proud of the job I did, it was an honour to manage the club.”