Lamps happy with continuity

Blues maestro happy with squad

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Lamps happy with continuity

Lampard: Happy with squad

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Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard is not concerned that the club has sold more players than it has bought this summer.

The Blues have had a fairly quiet transfer window in terms of incomings to Stamford Bridge, although Joe Cole, Michael Ballack, Deco and Juliano Belletti have all been released.

Carlo Ancelotti has added midfielders Ramires and Yossi Benayoun to his ranks and Lampard is confident that the squad is strong enough - saying continuity is a good thing.

"Continuity is nice," he said. "Especially when you have won a double but you do want to add to it and make it better although at the same time you don't want to add to it and make it worse.

"There is an element of keeping what you've got and only adding if you are adding better or good squad players.

"Five first-team squad players have left but we have started off very well and we have to keep that going.

"If we get injuries to big players we hope we have got the cover there.

"As a group, the double certainly has an effect on collective confidence. That is a big positive but the negative is if people think we have won the double, let's rest on our laurels.

"It is very important to keep the confidence but make sure that you never get the feeling that we can easily do that again.

"The moment you think that then you won't win anything else, so it is a balancing act."

Chelsea have made an excellent start to the Premier League season and the top-flight champions currently sit top of the pile.