Coventry parted ways with Mark Robins earlier this week, with Chelsea and England legend Frank Lampard now expected to take the reins of the Championship club.

The 46-year-old former England international is understood to be at the top of the list of replacements for Mark Robins. Lampard has been out of frontline management since leaving Chelsea for a second time in the wake of Graham Potter’s sacking by the Stamford Bridge club.

But he remains set on a career at the coalface in English football and he is uppermost in the thoughts of Coventry City owner Doug King. It was the businessman who called time on Robins’s seven-year spell in charge of the Sky Blues last week following a limp home defeat by Derby County.

And although Wycombe Wanderers’ boss Matt Bloomfield led the early betting, it appears that King wants a more established name to take the reigns at the CBS Arena.

As he is without a job at the moment, Lampard would be free to take over before Coventry’s next game – at home against in-form Sheffield United after the international break.

Coventry legend Steve Ogrizovic was one of many to question the dismissal of Robins, who has taken the Sky Blues from League Two all the way to a Championship play-off final.