Former Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe is among the candidates for the Derby County job.

The Championship's bottom club sacked Phillip Cocu on Saturday.

The Daily Mail says Derby expect a deluge of applicants to succeed Cocu but want a successor who has experience of getting a team promoted from the Championship, can develop young talent and is available now rather than managing in a current job.

Former Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe is one of four contenders ticking all those boxes and is understood to be on a provisional shortlist.

Roberto Di Matteo, formerly of Chelsea and West Brom, ex-Reading boss Brian McDermott, and Nigel Adkins, who managed Southampton, are the others.