Roman Abramovich will fight to keep Steve Holland at Chelsea as Gareth Southgate lines up a full-time role for the highly-rated coach.
Holland has been splitting his time between England and Chelsea since Southgate took over as interim boss at the end of September.
And one of Southgate’s first tasks when he is confirmed as England boss in the coming days will be to add Holland to his backroom team.
Southgate would prefer to have Holland on a full-time basis as he puts his backroom team together.