Frank Lampard is within the operating to turn out to be the following Coventry Metropolis supervisor, membership proprietor Doug King has confirmed.
The Sky Blues sacked long-serving boss Mark Robins final week after a gradual begin to the season left the membership seventeenth within the Championship.
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talkSPORT understands Chelsea legend Lampard is the entrance runner to take the reins on the CBS Area.
King did not get into how good Lampard’s possibilities of getting the job have been however did admit that the previous England, West Ham and Manchester Metropolis midfielder is a contender.
“We have obtained an enormous quantity of CVs from high-quality individuals of which Frank is one,” King instructed Sky Sports activities.
“We have carried out nothing on that course of… however clearly we’re within the worldwide break, we’ll be assessing every little thing.
“We’ll work out who’s going to make the shortlist and we’ll go from there.”
Lampard has been out of labor since he completed his spell as interim Chelsea supervisor in 2023.
He had taken cost at Stamford Bridge for the second time after the sacking of Graham Potter.
Lampard’s final everlasting function was with Everton.
He was sacked by the Toffees in January final 12 months, leaving the membership in nineteenth place within the Premier League on the time of his departure.
The previous Chelsea star took cost of 44 video games, and oversaw 24 defeats, 12 wins and eight attracts.
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His win share of 27.91 made him the second worst Everton supervisor of all time.
Lampard’s everlasting spell with Chelsea between July 2019 and January 2021 was extra profitable.
In his first season in cost, Chelsea scored 67 objectives in 38 video games, and have been behind solely Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis within the goalscoring charts.
He led the crew to a fourth-place end within the Premier League and to the FA Cup last that season, with Chelsea dropping to Arsenal at Wembley.
After 18 months in cost, he was sacked by the membership he received the Premier League with as a participant.
That was after the Blues suffered 5 defeats of their earlier eight league video games.
On the time, then-owner Roman Abramovich stated Lampard’s standing as an ‘necessary icon’ of the membership ‘remained undiminished’ regardless of his dismissal.
Lampard’s first go at managing got here at Derby within the 2018/19 season, with him taking cost of 57 matches, profitable 24, drawing 17 and dropping 16.
The Rams missed out on promotion to the Premier League through the Championship play-offs, however Lampard’s managerial debut led to Chelsea snapping him up that summer time.
He had been tipped to return to administration with former membership West Ham.
Now, he might be writing a brand new chapter with one other second tier aspect, Coventry.
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The choice to sack Robins was criticised by numerous Coventry followers, and even former EFL boss Neil Warnock labelled it as ‘foolish’ and instructed the Sky Blues to be ‘cautious what they wished for’.
The Englishman was the third-longest serving supervisor in English soccer – after Manchester Metropolis’s Pep Guardiola and Harrogate City’s Simon Weaver – following seven years and 244 days accountable for the Sky Blues.
Paradoxically, the ultimate straw for the Coventry board got here after a 2-1 loss at residence to Lampard’s former membership, Derby.
The Sky Blues have begun to show their fortunes round after selecting up some extent on the street in opposition to league leaders Sunderland on Saturday.
Rhys Carr has been handed the interim head coach function till a everlasting successor is confirmed.