Fulham are looking for a head coach rather than a manager to replace Kit Symons.
The subtle difference in title for the fifth man in two years hoping to find a winning formula at Craven Cottage rules out old school chiefs in sole charge deciding everything from top to bottom - and spending freely as they do it.
The inside word to GetWestLondon rules out Harry Redknapp and Steve Bruce for starters, and shunts a few others down the odds list.
The new favourite is Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at 5/2 with Sky Bet Victor, who also topped the QPR odds a day back to replace Chris Ramsey.
Fulham are willing to pay compensation for the right man, but that depends on the findings of chief football officer Mike Rigg.
Symons was famously appointed by a five-man committee that included former stalwarts Danny Murphy and Brian McBride.
But Rigg, former QPR ‘technical director’, will draw up a short list on his own, and take his findings to Whites owner Shahid Khan, and right-hand man Mark Lamping, who runs Khan’s American NFL franchise, Jacksonville Jaguars.
Fulham hope to have a new man in place by the time they face MK Dons away on Saturday week following the international break
Meanwhile, training sessions are being run by Mark Pembridge and Sean Reed, overseen by Alan Curbishley, who advised Symons and is sixth favourite at 10/1.
However, the former Charlton boss told Symons last season he didn’t fancy a return to the rough and tumble of day-to-day management.
