Former Swansea manager Garry Monk is the man Leeds United want to replace Steve Evans, according to Press Association Sport sources.
Leeds announced Evans' protracted departure on Tuesday night, saying they wanted to go in a different direction to the Scot who had claimed he would be given a new deal beyond the end of this month if he kept the club in the Championship.
That contract was not forthcoming, though, and after a three-week wait to learn his fate -- a time during which owner Massimo Cellino interviewed other people for his role -- he was let go.
PA reports that Monk was not one of those Cellino met while Evans was in place -- MK Dons' Karl Robinson was one while an approach was made for Bristol Rovers' Darrell Clarke.
But Monk is now the leading candidate, with the 37-year-old out of work since leaving Swansea in December last year.
Prior to that he had been upgraded from player-manager to the outright boss, guiding the Swans to eighth place in the Premier League in his only full season in charge, 2014-15.
There was no comment from Leeds on Wednesday.