Chelsea are preparing a role for Petr Cech as part of a summer shake-up aimed at taking the goalkeeper back to Stamford Bridge and winning round fans who have grown disillusioned with falling so far behind Manchester City and Liverpool.

Cech has announced he will retire from playing at the end of the current season and will assess all of his offers and options once his Arsenal contract expires in a few weeks.

But Chelsea believe they can tempt him back to the club where he spent 11 hugely successful years as a player with a job within what could be a new technical set-up.

The Blues are yet to replace ex-technical director Michael Emenalo, since his resignation in November 2017, and Cech could be asked to take on elements of the job he left behind as part of a newly-created role.

There could also be more key appointments, as well as departures, with head coach Maurizio Sarri still under pressure and a review of the coaching and scouting set up underway.