Departing Stoke City football chief John Rudge expects Tony Pulis to find himself a new manager's job.
Rudge is confident Pulis will be back in the game sooner or later.
"I think he will get another job, and another decent job, but whether he would want to do it straight away I don't know," he told The Sentinel.
"When Peter bought the club and installed Tony as manager again (in 2006) I thought that was a brave move, but it has been a great success story.
"He will look back on his time at Stoke as a job well done, which it certainly has been, and I hope supporters will ultimately recognise that as well."