Frank Lampard ‘in advanced talks with Coventry as Sky Blues opt for Chelsea legend over Ruud van Nistelrooy’

FRANK LAMPARD is reportedly successful precocious talks with Coventry City aft the Sky Blues opted for him implicit Ruud van Nistelrooy.

The Championship nine sacked instrumentality favourite Mark Robins earlier this period aft winning conscionable 4 of their archetypal 15 matches this season.

A 2-2 gully astatine league leaders Sunderland proved to beryllium the straw that broke the camel’s back.

And Robins was shown the doorway aft overseeing 387 games successful seven-and-a-half years, freeing up a coveted dugout position.

Manchester United icon Van Nistelrooy was 1 of the first to propulsion his chapeau into the ringing aft taking interim complaint of his erstwhile club.

The Dutchman oversaw 3 wins from 4 matches successful the aftermath of Erik 10 Hag’s sacking.

And Van Nistelrooy was anxious to stay successful English shot aft being let spell by caller United brag Ruben Amorim.

But Sky Germany claims helium has missed retired connected the Coventry occupation to erstwhile Derby and Everton brag Lampard.

The Chelsea legend, who has doubly managed his erstwhile side, has present emerged arsenic the favourite to regenerate Robins.

Lampard is believed to person impressed the Coventry hierarchy aft antecedently starring Derby to the Championship play-off final.

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And a woody is adjacent aft negotiations entered precocious stages.

Should helium get the job, Lampard volition beryllium hoping his clip with the Sky Blues goes amended than his past interim relation astatine Stamford Bridge.

Filling successful for Graham Potter until the extremity of the 2022/23 campaign, Lampard mustered conscionable 1 azygous triumph from 11 matches with a misfit Chelsea side.

He has since been moving arsenic a pundit and admitted past period helium would emotion to negociate England successful the future.

Lampard said: As an English subordinate who played 100-plus times, and an English idiosyncratic who's precise arrogant – of course, the England acceptable up is something... I ne'er dreamed of playing arsenic galore times for England, fto unsocial present arsenic a coach.

"So, present arsenic a coach, I deliberation I would beryllium brainsick to benignant of say, ‘Oh no, that would ne'er involvement me'.

"It would person to beryllium thing that they would privation maine to do, and person to beryllium thing that I privation to bash and thought I could adhd worth to it successful immoderate way."