Swansea City have drawn up a shortlist of managerial targets, with Tottenham's Chris Davies emerging as a leading candidate to succeed Michael Duff.
Davies, 38, joined Spurs in the summer as Ange Postecoglou's senior assistant coach, having spent most of his career as number two to Brendan Rodgers.
He had been close to taking over at Championship side Swansea before Duff was appointed head coach in June.
Swans chairman Andy Coleman is to begin meeting potential bosses this week.
However, Swansea will require permission from Tottenham to speak to Davies, and they would almost certainly need to pay compensation to the Premier League club should they decide to appoint the former Wales Under-19 player.