Sampdoria have approached Sassuolo for coach Eusebio Di Francesco, it has been confirmed.

Di Francesco has been tipped for the Blucerchiati bench next season after Sinisa Mihajlovic confessed he could leave.

"Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero asked for information on Di Francesco," Sassuolo director general Giovanni Carnevali told Gazzetta TV.

"He is the only person to have called us so far. Di Francesco is the principle architect of our project and we'd have to really think about it before letting him go."