Roberto Mancini and Guus Hiddink are the front-runners to take over from Claudio Ranieri at Leicester — with interim manager Craig Shakespeare's chances dependent on the team's performance against Liverpool.
On Saturday, Kasper Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy angrily denied Leicester's players influenced the sacking of Claudio Ranieri, while the club's Thai owners told the squad and remaining staff that Premier League survival now rests in their hands.
But director of football Jon Rudkin, chief executive Susan Whelan, vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha and football operations director Andrew Neville have already drawn up a short-list. A new manager is expected to be appointed by the middle of this week, unless the performance tomorrow indicates that the team will respond to Shakespeare.