AFCON 2025
Frank Lampard is closing in on a return to management with Coventry, 18 months after leaving Chelsea.
Lampard is expected to succeed Mark Robins, who was sacked after almost eight years in charge.
The club are currently 17th in the Championship, two points above the relegation zone, and Lampard is seen as the man to steady the ship.
The ex-England international has been out of coaching since leaving his interim role in charge of Chelsea at the end of 2022-23.
However, the 46-year-old is set to return to the dugout in a division he knows from his time in charge of Derby, whom he guided to the playoff final in 2019.
Coventry’s chairman, Doug King, has stressed the importance of making the correct next move. “I cannot have the risk of us getting relegated,” he said at a fans’ forum this month.
“Nobody thought Birmingham would get relegated – and they did. The next appointment is very important.”
Lampard’s first game in charge could be at home to Cardiff on Saturday
