Luis Enrique is heading to London for talks with Chelsea having impressed Blues chiefs with his vision for the club.
The former Barcelona and Spain boss isn't thought to be on the verge of being appointed, but is instead seen as worth engaging in deeper discussions having successfully got across his ideas of how he would mould Chelsea's young squad and implement his approach.
The 52-year-old won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2015, and one of the attractions of appointing him now could be that he would be in place for this season's quarter-final against Real Madrid, the club he played for between 1991 and 1996.