Frank Lampard has agreed a deal with Coventry to become their new manager, talkSPORT understands.
Lampard has been in advanced talks with the Sky Blues since early last week and an official announcement is now imminent.
He is expected to be in charge for the upcoming game at home to Cardiff on Saturday.
It is the 46-year-old’s first job since leaving an interim role at Chelsea in May 2023.
Coventry are 17th in the table after sacking Mark Robins, who was the longest-serving manager in the EFL before his sudden exit.
It is understood Ruud van Nistelrooy also applied for the job after his short interim spell as Man United manager ended.
The Dutchman is now considered one of the frontrunners for the vacant Leicester job in the Premier League.
Coventry owner Doug King joined talkSPORT earlier in November and addressed talks with Lampard directly.
“We’ve received a huge amount of CVs from high-quality people, of which Frank is one,” King said.
Ex-Chelsea and Everton boss Lampard has Championship experience from his time at Derby between 2018 and 2019.
Lampard took the Rams to the play-off final that season but lost in the final match before Premier League promotion.
A Chelsea legend and the Premier League’s sixth all-time top scorer, Lampard would then return to Stamford Bridge and secure a fourth-place finish and Champions League football despite a transfer ban.
Sacked after just 18 months, he’d then take a year out of the game before a relegation-threatened stint with Everton, and then a brief return as an interim manager at Chelsea.
Now returning with Coventry, Lampard has a tough task on his hands given how popular Robins was and that the side finished fifth and then ninth in the past two seasons.
Discussing the ins and outs at Coventry, former Premier League regular and talkSPORT host Scott Minto said: “I didn’t agree with the decision in the first place, I think Robins should still be in charge.
“I didn’t like the fact that he [the owner] got rid of Robins and then came out and said publicly that Lampard has applied. What if Lampard had applied and didn’t get it? Then it’s ‘Lampard isn’t even good enough for Coventry’.
“Frank has been very unlucky. Everton never stood a chance, Chelsea the second time he didn’t stand a chance, first time they sold the best player in the league [Eden Hazard] and had a transfer ban and finished fourth, I don’t think that’s too bad.”