Sylvain
Player Valuation: £1m
It's clear we'd have to take a chance on someone who isn't proven in this league (unless we get incredibly lucky and grab someone with a point to prove like AVB). But Moyes wasn't proven in the league either, sometimes you have to take risks.
The likes of Eddie Howe or Gus Poyet have played some very good football with cheap players in the lower league. Stuart McCall has had a good season up in Scotland and has a connection with the club. All three you'd imagine would jump at a chance to take on a big premier league club.
Stuart Baxter has won leagues in multiple countries and always done a good job, he's managing in South Africa at the moment and would probably relish a chance at a big English club. Egil Olsen, who manages Norway, has a great record at international level and would want to prove his ill fated stint at wimbledon was a fluke. Martin Haarm who was van Gaal's asistant at AZ has talked about making the step up to manager and has a great cv as a coach.
Héctor Cúper, the argentinian who took valencia to two champions league finals, inter to 2nd in serie a and created that boss late 90s mallorca team, has been slumming with the likes of aris, santander and Orduspor of late (none of whom have any budgets to speek of) and you'd expect would like to manage in a big league again. Or Jorge Sampaoli, another argentine whos a disciple of bielsa and is dominating south american club football with a team from chile vastly out financed by the brazilian giants. He's said he'll want to head to europe after the next seson or two and we can offer him a more stable club then he'd find in la liga.
Jacques Santini, who yes bombed at spurs but did wonders at lyon, is unemployed and would again probably jump at an offer for us and I reckon he could do well here. And, this'll get me abuse, but I think with the right staff around him Peter Reid could do a good job. He did really well at sunderland and not bad at Man City. It's just that Leeds job where eveything went to hell. And at least we'll know he cares about the club.
And while Bob Houghton might be a bit past it (he got fired from the Indian national team last year), he was an extraordinary manager in his time and freely available.
I know you've been on here since 2009 but you're a koppite, right?