Leeds' board of directors will meet tomorrow to discuss who to appoint as the club's third permanent manager in less than a year.
Chairman Professor John McKenzie, Allan Leighton and Neil Holloway are to mull over the candidates for the job, with current interim-boss Peter Reid a strong favourite to land the post.
Leicester's Micky Adams, Paul Hart at Nottingham Forest, Celtic's Martin O'Neill and Gordon Strachan at Southampton are the other front-runners, so here we take a look at the merits of each candidate.
Reid is undoubtedly in pole position having sat in the hot seat for the last seven weeks since taking over from the sacked Terry Venables.
Has done everything that has been asked of him, primarily keeping Leeds in the top flight, and it is clear his no-nonsense managerial style has won over the players due to many publicly backing the 46-year-old.
A former Leeds player, Adams made 71 appearances over two years for the Elland Road club, and there is no doubt the 41-year-old has the pedigree to manage in the top flight.
Adams has so far proven himself at every level outside the Premiership, especially operating on shoestring budgets, which will be the case for whoever takes on the Leeds job.
After spells with Fulham, Swansea - where he walked out after less than a fortnight after being told promised finances were no longer available - Brentford and caretaker at Nottingham Forest, he then made his name with Brighton.
In Hart's case, he has already had two spells at Leeds. Once as a player, making 191 appearances over six seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and again as youth coach in the mid-1990s.
It is the latter for which Leeds fans remember Hart, primarily for his success in guiding the Whites to the FA Youth Cup titles of 1993 and 1997.
The likes of Harry Kewell, Jonathan Woodgate and Paul Robinson all initially learned their trade under Hart, whose name is still widely respected at Elland Road.
Prior to that Hart was player-coach at Notts County, followed by three seasons in the manager's seat at Chesterfield, before his youth coaching roles, first with Forest and then Leeds.
Not for the first time, Strachan's name has been touted with the vacancy at Leeds, and no wonder given what he achieved during his playing days with the club, and his current pedigree as a manager.
Strachan enjoyed a prolific career as a tough-tackling, hard-working midfielder, both at club and international level.
As Leeds captain under Howard Wilkinson, he helped United win the Second Division crown in 1990, and then two years later the Division One title before it became the Premiership.
After his time at Coventry, Strachan was out of work for just five weeks as Southampton recruited a man who had learned his trade under the likes of Wilkinson, Atkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.
The Saints, so often in relegation trouble, have steered comfortably clear in the two seasons Strachan has been in charge, and they now have an FA Cup final and Europe to look forward to.
O'Neill would be a firm favourite with the Leeds fans, particularly after what he has achieved as both a player and a manager, with the Northern Irishman undoubtedly able to extract the best from any squad he works with.
After Wycombe and a brief spell at Norwich, O'Neill then joined Leicester where he enjoyed remarkable success, taking them into the Premiership after just seven months in charge.
The Foxes then went on to win the League Cup in 1997 and 2000, finishing as runners-up in 1999, and with it savouring Europe, prior to joining Celtic in the summer of 2000 where the Bhoys won the domestic treble in his first season in charge.
Another league title followed last season, and they remain in with a chance of a Bank of Scotland Premier League and UEFA Cup double this season, at a time when speculation continues to surround his future.