Chelsea assistant coach Joe Edwards has left the club in order to join Frank Lampard’s staff at Everton.
Former Chelsea boss Lampard was confirmed as the new Everton manager on Monday, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal at Goodison Park as he returns to management for the first time since being sacked by the Blues a year ago.
Edwards has been a coach at Chelsea since 2004, having been on the club’s books as a schoolboy.
He worked his way up through the academy coaching ranks before being promoted to the first-team staff when Lampard took the Chelsea job in the summer of 2019 and the 35-year-old was credited with helping bring through the likes of Mason Mount and Reece James, who made their first-team breakthroughs under Lampard.
Chris Jones, who Lampard worked with at Derby, will also join up with him at Everton, while Carlo Ancelotti’s former Chelsea and Real Madrid assistant manager Paul Clement is also set to be offered a role.
Lampard is also considering asking former teammate Ashley Cole, who is working as a coach with Chelsea’s academy and England’s U21, to join him at Goodison Park.
