With applications from managers all over the world, Rovers now face the task of whittling them down before beginning the interview process. Talks of a shortlist being drawn up are premature, with links in the national press seeing the Portuguese move in to 7/4 for the job, having also been linked with the role at Burnley as his contract at SC Braga draws to a conclusion. It is thought that Carvalhal is also under the consideration of Al Wadha, and has experience of working in the United Arab Emirates following a spell with Al Ahli between 2013 and 2015. Those links have been played down, but interest from England and Brazil has been mooted in his native Portugal.