They'll only give him it to the end of the season. We're in the same situation we were when we hired Allardyce. There are two big factors that mean we won't sign the kind of manager any of us wants:
1. No decent manager wants to pick up a club in crisis half way through the season
2. Getting relegated would be a disaster of the highest order, killing all our ambitions for the new stadium etc. So we have to go for a "safe pair of hands". That means someone that knows the league and has been in similar situations before.