Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy preferred choice is for manager Tim Sherwood to remain in charge for next season.
The Daily Mail says despite Sunday's 4-0 defeat at Liverpool, Levy still wants Sherwood to succeed as manager.
The 40-year-old former academy coach is planning for next season and has detailed a number of transfer targets to turn round the club's fortunes.
Levy is understood to have distanced himself from the possibility of bringing in Dutchmen Louis van Gaal or Frank de Boer, who have irritated the Spurs chairman by talking in public about the approach he made before Sherwood was offered the job.
