Martin O'Neill has been discussed as a shock appointment to take the Leicester City job, it has emerged.
The Foxes recently parted ways with Brendan Rodgers and could look to O'Neill to take over until the end of the season.
Leicester are struggling and sit 19th following their sixth loss in seven games.
O'Neill has been in the Leicester hot-seat before, managing the club between 1995 and 2000. He achieved promotion to the Premier League at the end of his first season in charge before establishing the club as a solid mid-table team.
He remains a popular figure at the King Power Stadium, thanks in no small part to his two League Cup triumphs, in 1997 and 2000, and remains one of just three Leicester managers to have won silverware in the Premier League era (the other two being Rodgers and Claudio Ranieri).
However, O'Neill has been out of work for nearly four years, with his last managerial job coming in the form of a six-month stint in charge of Leicester's local rivals Nottingham Forest - the club O'Neill spent the bulk of his playing career at.
Prior to that he was manager of the Republic of Ireland national side for five years, following stints at Sunderland, Aston Villa and Celtic.
It's understood Leicester approached Graham Potter, who was sacked by Chelsea just a few hours after Rodgers was given the boot, but the Englishman turned them down, citing a reluctance to jump straight back into management.
Rafa Benitez, Dean Smith, Ralph Hassenhutl and Jesse Marsch are also being considered for the role, while the caretaker duo of Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler - who oversaw Tuesday's 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa - is also an option.
In any case, Leicester need a solution and they need one quickly. Two years ago they were knocking on the door of the top four and winning the FA Cup, and if they were to fall out of the Premier League, they'd unquestionably be one of the very best teams (on paper, at least) to ever do so.
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