Chelsea are set to confirm the return of Petr Cech in a technical role within the next 48 hours.
Cech brought the curtain down on an illustrious playing career this year, with his final game for Arsenal ending in defeat to Chelsea in the Europa League Final.
The goalkeeper enjoyed huge success at Chelsea after joining the Blues from Rennes in 2004, spending 11 years at Stamford Bridge and winning plenty of silverware.
Cech won four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, the Champions League, Europa League and three League Cups with Chelsea before eventually losing his starting spot to Thibaut Courtois.
The Czech legend swapped west London for north London in 2015, and went on to lift the FA Cup with the Gunners before announcing he would retire at the end of the 2018-19 campaign.
Cech will be part of an overhaul that is also set to see Frank Lampard become the club's new manager.
Standard Sport understands that Chelsea are hoping to conclude negotiations with their all-time top scorer by the end of the week.
Lampard is the club’s first choice to succeed Maurizio Sarri - who departed for Juventus this week - and they want to have him in place as soon as possible.
Chelsea have been keen to avoid a repeat of the problems they faced last year when Sarri took over from Antonio Conte after the start of pre-season.
