Other people in the frame include Terry Venables, Slaven Bilic, Roy Keane, Glenn Hoddle and Graeme Souness.

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Tony Mowbray and Slaven Bilic have also been linked with the post.

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"Formations are dying out, " said Slaven Bilic, head coach of Croatia.

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It was a cross that Everton striker Nikica Jelavic would have craved and it was probably that realization that prompted Slaven Bilic to introduce the striker midway through the second half.

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Jelavic finally got the move he wanted and, in a day of double joy for the player, he was named in Croatia coach Slaven Bilic's 23-man squad for the Euro 2012 Group F qualifiers against Latvia in Riga on 3 September and Greece in Zagreb four days later.

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