Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher is backing Sam Allardyce for the Sunderland job next season.

Carragher wrote in the Daily Mail: "If all goes well with Advocaat, maybe Sunderland will review the decision to offer him only a short-term contract.

"But I have a feeling that Sunderland's hierarchy will be looking at the West Ham dug-out at a manager who looks like he may be on his way in the summer and thinking, 'What if?'.

"If Sam Allardyce does leave West Ham, he would suit Sunderland down to the ground."