[Slick_Footwork]

How about Patrick Vieira? He's recently left Nice after 2 and a half seasons and obviously knows the Premier League as a player. If he coaches the way that he played, then our lightweight players will recieve a right, good kicking.

I think if the trigger is pulled then it'll be between Eddie Howe and Marco Silva.

I don't really follow Ligue 1 enough to know how well or badly Vieira did with Nice. I know he was sacked after a bad run this year, but not sure what cards he was dealt. Probably would prefer someone with Premier League management experience, but on paper his character would fit the bill.

Silva would be a popular choice for me after Allardyce. His work at Hull and Watford, initially, was impressive. He was undone at Everton with some poor spending but who knows if that was down to him or the director of football. Everton is a role that plenty of managers seem to fail to meet expectations in. So I can't hold this against him.

I still think Allardyce's CV is unrivalled as far as keeping teams up goes though. He's done it with Blackburn, Sunderland, Palace. From what I remember, Silva inherited Allardyce's Everton team and they finished in a similar position. So I guess Allardyce's work was more impressive given he inherited them on a terrible run mid season and Silva was only able to match him with a full pre-season and season.

As for Howe, personal opinion is that I don't fancy him at all. I always felt he was a lucky manager with Bournemouth and some of his unproven big money signings like Ibe, Billing, Lloyd Kelly, Solanke and Danjuma showed a lack of common sense and eye for a player. Ake was the one big money signing who come good and yielded a profit, but the rest were pretty much failures at Premier League level. I think people often fail to realise the huge amounts of cash he spent at Bournemouth but these guys were all £15-£20m players. Then you've got Lerma who was around £30m if I remember rightly. I don't think Lerma was so much of a failure as he was pretty much ever present, but he was never worth that cash.

So Howe wouldn't be on the radar for me. That said, at this point, I'd take anyone. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, so maybe Howe would be okay.

As a completely outside choice, how's about Arsene Wenger on a short term deal? Always seemed good at developing and trusting youth. Or is he happy living the easy life working for FIFA?