Frank Lampard has told Chelsea’s young hopefuls to get used to scrapping for their futures as new players like Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner join the club.

Chelsea announced the signing RB Leipzig striker on Wednesday and are still angling for Ben Chilwell and Kai Havertz in their effort to rebuild the team.

Lampard said: “I’ve spoken to Tammy Abraham before about the idea of competition and I don’t feel the need to have to address every player if a player comes in who might challenge their position at a club like Chelsea, because that’s what it’s about.

“It’s been about that in its most successful years, in recent years in the Roman Abramovich era.

“Tammy has had a very good season for us this season. He has to sustain and improve on that because at Chelsea we have demands.

“I’m happy to have options and we have options in forward areas. And we must have competition for places. So I’m pleased with the idea of that.”