Simon Jordan hopes Frank Lampard will stay at Coventry City in the Premier League next season – but expects the Sky Blues boss to be linked with other top flight vacancies.
The former Crystal Palace owner was speaking after City took another step towards promotion with a hard-fought 0-0 draw at play-off hopefuls Hull City.
With Middlesbrough and Millwall both dropping points the Sky Blues now need only four more to be sure of returning to the top division for the first time in 25 years.
That will represent one of his finest achievements in management and also present him with one of his biggest challenges, actually ensuring they defy what will be the inevitable predictions they will find it hard next term.
Speaking on talkSPORT Jordan says he wouldn’t be surprised if Lampard began being linked with even his former club’s hotseat with Oliver Glasner set to leave Selhurst Park.
“We know that Frank Lampard can manage, we know that he can manage in the Championship, he did pretty well at Derby, he's done remarkably well at Coventry, so he deserved lots and lots of plaudits.
“Now going into the Premier League, the reasons why it may not be harder is because most people will be queuing up to tell you how quickly Coventry are going to go back down again.
“If he actually stays there and manages Coventry, which I hope he does because there will no doubt be a load of indexing Frank Lampard for available jobs, including jobs like Crystal Palace.
“I hope he stays with the job that he was given by Doug King and the opportunity he's taken and rewarded both himself and the club with.
“But I think the expectation is that Coventry are going to struggle, so unless they struggle dreadfully and are really beaten out of sight week in, week out, which I don't imagine a team under Frank Lampard will be – but we saw him really struggle at Chelsea, so there is a possibility.
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“When you're classifying it which is the biggest challenge for him? I think this is probably the least [compared to Chelsea and Everton], but in another way, whichever way you peel it back Frank Lampard wants to be an elite manager.
“So if he goes into the Premier League and they go out with a fart and achieve nothing, it won't help him in his cause to be successful as a Premier League manager.
“Unless he's going to stay with Coventry for the next ten years and keep building and rebuilding and part of their model is a Jeremy Peace model at West Bromwich - ‘We can go up, we can consolidate, we can get some dough, we can go back down again, dominate the Championship, go back up again’. Which is what West Brom did for years.
“So who knows? But the bottom line is in the here and now, Frank Lampard has done a very, very good job and is worthy of all the praise that goes with it and they will be in the Premier League next week I suspect.”