Joe Edwards is set for a promotion at Chelsea.

Chelsea are set to clear the decks for Frank Lampard with Maurizio Sarri's entire coaching staff set to be released or reshuffled.

The Daily Mail says Edwards will be considered for promotion from his role in charge of the U23 development squad to work with the first team.

Edwards, who worked closely with Jody Morris, who will follow Lampard from Derby, when they both coached in the Chelsea academy, has long since been identified as a rising star by head of youth development Neil Bath.

He is considered one of the best coaches working at the club and viewed as someone who is destined to work with the first team sooner or later.

Like Morris, he knows the talented young players such as Mason Mount, Tammy Abraham and Reece James who will be given the chance to seize a place in the first team squad as the club fights a FIFA transfer ban.