Lamps said: "There will be changes, of course, but I don't think they should be too wholesale. We have been through some challenges and were one step away. We should keep together the players we have."
"We did well this season without winning anything. There is stability and the core of a good team. We have got to know each other and the majority of the players have fitted in very well together."
"Hopefully we can keep that core and add to it and be even stronger."
Since Ranieri signed him in 2001, Lamps has barely missed a game for the club. Most Chelsea fans will tell you that since his first season at the club, Frank has just kept getting better. And who does he attribute that to?
"In the three years I've been at Chelsea, Claudio has done loads for me," he said.
"He gave me a chance - and without that, who knows where I'd be. I can't say enough about him. The way I'm playing and how I've developed in character - that's got to be down to him. He is a very honourable and dignified man.
"I respect everything he's done and I will be talking to him and thanking him.
"There is some sadness. It's a difficult situation but the club is the be-all and end-all.
"Managers and players move on. What's made it difficult is that it's lingered over a whole season."
With the progress he has made over the last 3 years, it will be interesting to see how a change of manager affects Lampard's game. If his playing level goes down, so will the team...