Chelsea manager news: Coventry chief responds to Frank Lampard rumours after Blues sack Liam Rosenior

Clearlake's managerial hunt astatine Chelsea is already underway pursuing their latest alteration successful the dugout.

The Blues are erstwhile again looking for a caller absorption aft different short-lived assignment successful Liam Rosenior came to an extremity connected Wednesday evening.

And 1 acquainted sanction has rapidly re-emerged successful the conversation.

Coventry president Doug King breaks soundlessness connected Frank Lampard amid Chelsea links

Frank Lampard has already been linked with a instrumentality to Stamford Bridge pursuing the unsurprising dismissal of Rosenior this week, but Coventry City president Doug King has been speedy to chill speculation.

Lampard has softly rebuilt his managerial estimation aft guiding the Sky Blues to promotion this season, starring to involvement from higher up the pyramid.

Speaking to BBC CWR, King praised Lampard’s enactment and suggested the erstwhile Chelsea midfielder is contented successful his existent role.

"He’s done a fantastic job, it’s been an unthinkable 18 months for america and for him,” King said. "I conscionable deliberation he’s happy, I’m happy, everybody’s happy… he’s recovered a blessed spot astatine the moment."

King besides acknowledged the inevitability of speculation, adding: "Everybody is going to get linked with everything, it’s a merry-go-round."

Chelsea looking for sixth manager since Clearlake takeover

Chelsea’s determination to portion ways with Rosenior aft just 3 months underlines the continued instability astatine Stamford Bridge.

The Blues person present gone done 5 managers nether Clearlake ownership, with Rosenior the latest to autumn pursuing a mediocre tally of results, including Tuesday night's 3-0 defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion, which made it 5 consecutive Premier League defeats.

That changeless churn has raised superior questions astir the club’s semipermanent direction, peculiarly fixed the standard of concern and expectations to vie astatine the apical level.

With different assignment looming, Chelsea are erstwhile again casting a wide net, and Lampard’s past with the nine people makes him a sanction of interest.

Will Frank Lampard instrumentality to Stamford Bridge?

A instrumentality for Lampard would transportation evident affectional appeal.

Few figures are much intimately tied to Chelsea’s modern success, and his caller achievements with Coventry suggest helium has grown importantly arsenic a manager since his erstwhile spells successful charge.

However, sentiment unsocial is improbable to beryllium enough.

Given the instability nether the existent ownership, immoderate imaginable instrumentality would travel with sizeable risk. Lampard has worked hard to rebuild his reputation, and stepping backmost into a volatile situation could undo that advancement successful a flash.

While the accidental to negociate the Blues again whitethorn beryllium tempting, the smarter determination mightiness beryllium to proceed his upward trajectory distant from Stamford Bridge, astatine slightest for now.