Jurgen Klinsmann has thrown his hat in the ring to take charge of former team Tottenham if Mauricio Pochettino quits the club.
Pochettino has found himself under pressure after a difficult start to the season, which hit new depths on Tuesday when they lost to Sky Bet League Two club Colchester in the Carabao Cup.
And the Daily Mail has claimed that Spurs icon Klinsmann, who earned legendary status in north London during his two stints with the club, is keen on replacing Pochettino.
The German has been without a job since leaving the USA national team in 2016 but is a highly-regarded coach who has enjoyed much success in the game as a player and manager.
Klinsmann guided Germany to the World Cup semi-finals in 2006 and then helped the United States reach the knockout stages in the 2014 edition of the tournament.
He has also tasted success at club level and led Bayern Munich to the Champions League quarter-finals before being sacked in April 2009.
Despite speculation surrounding his future, Pochettino has insisted he wants to be the man who tries to take Tottenham to the next level.
The Argentine, who has faced some calls to be sacked from irate supporters, has transformed Spurs into regular top-four Premier League finishers and memorably led them to the Champions League final last term having not signed a player for two transfer windows.
He spoke in the summer of starting a new chapter, calling on Spurs to "act like a big club", but they are some way off the level of Manchester City and Liverpool .
Making that jump to the next step looks a difficult task, but it is one Pochettino wants to tackle.
"I believe yes and I hope yes," he said. "If not you are going to see quickly. It's hard. It's hard. We are looking at different clubs that are in a different way to us.
"I don't want to say or talk about names. Because I don't like comparisons.
"But how tough it is to be in the last stage - it is difficult. Because it's not only to be in the last stage, maybe you can appear there in some period, the most difficult thing is to keep this performance and be consistent."
