We must start by congratulating Tim Sherwood, who is approaching his 24-hour anniversary as Tottenham's caretaker boss, the former midfielder adeptly managing to avoid being sacked by Daniel Levy less than a day into the job. Though, given that Sherwood has yet to win a match since replacing Hank Scorpio, who will use the millions earned from his latest pay-off to build a mountain lair and buy the Denver Broncos, Levy's notoriously itchy trigger finger must be giving him some bother already. That finger's itchy, all right! Someone better scratch that finger fast!

The pressure is building on Sherwood already, then. But if he does manage to survive, not that he should when his failure to win the Premier League is taken into account, then he will be given the opportunity to prove that he should be given the Tottenham job on a permanent basis, whatever that means. Not much, in all honesty. Other candidates include Fabio Capello, Southampton's Mauricio Pochettino, FC Basel's Murat Yakin, Glenn Hoddle, Christian Gross, Lord Sugar and Daniel Levy, all of whom will be delighted to learn that Mirko Vucinic will join on loan from Juventus in January. What Hoddle did in a past life to be linked with this poisoned chalice is unclear.

To news of managerial change elsewhere now and Gianfranco Zola has done one at Watford, who made a complete hash of their promotion bid under him last season, after nine matches without a win. And who's the early favourite might replace him at Vicarage Road? His former assistant at West Ham, Steve Clarke, recently sacked by West Bromwich Albion, who are rumoured to want, er, Zola to replace Clarke. All very cosy.

If you replace the 'Z' in his surname with an 'S', then Wilfried Zaha would be French, which is why Newcastle are favourites to sign the Manchester United winger on loan in January. But on his way out of Newcastle is Steven Taylor apparently, a target for Queens Park Rangers after losing his place in the team following his injury. Which might have something to do with him losing his place in the team.

Rafa's revenge! The former Liverpool manager has returned to his former club with an attempt to bring Daniel Agger to Napoli on loan. But Liverpool aren't for budging. They plan to hang on to the Dane, having already seen off interest in him from Barcelona last summer. Do one, Rafa!

Everton are planning a double deal for the Dundee United duo Andrew Robertson and John Souttar. Robertson, a left-back, is seen as a potential heir to Leighton Baines, who's probably on his way to Old Trafford, while Souttar is a centre-back.

Hull, Sunderland and West Ham are all interested in Lorient's 24-year-old French centre-back Lamine Koné and plan to "do battle over him", Steve Bruce, Gus Poyet and Sam Allardyce readying themselves for a three-way jousting competition to secure the defender's services.