The mercurial Italian has retired from playing football professionally and is now looking at an offer of a coaching role at Stamford Bridge.
Roman Abramovich is keen to recruit Zola and Franco was guest of honour at Sunday's match against Liverpool - in fact sitting beside the multi-billionaire owner of the Premiership champions.
Chelsea's greatest ever player, as voted by supporters, was at the training ground yesterday getting in much-needed conditioning in advance of a charity match for Macclesfield Town FC.
But it's the idea of seeing Zola training Chelsea youngsters and advancing his coaching career which will be the most mouth-watering prospect for the Chelsea faithful.
It's expected that Abramovich will be looking to fast track Zola and the Russian sees him as the successor to Jose Mourinho as Chelsea's head coach.