Frank Lampard has resumed talks with Derby County in regards to becoming the club’s new manager, it is understood.

The East Midlands club, who lost to Fulham in the Championship play-off semi-finals, hope to be in a position to make an announcement this week.

Derby have been without a manager since Gary Rowett left to take over at Stoke City last week and Lampard increasingly looks like the man who will take over at the iPro Stadium. The former Chelsea and England midfielder is looking to take his first step into management and he confirmed over the weekend that he had been talking with officials at Derby.

“There’s been interest from Derby and I’ve been speaking with them,” Lampard said during his role as a BT Sport pundit for Saturday’s Champions League final. “I’m ambitious and I want to become a manager at some point. It’s a big club, with a big tradition and a big history, which I really like. We’ll carry on speaking when I go home, and we’ll see.”