The former Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough manager remains on the market.
Some Nottingham Forest fans are envisaging the worst case scenario after Middlesbrough parted company with Tony Pulis on Friday.
Jonathan Woodgate is favourite to succeed Pulis as Middlesbrough manager, although the former Boro and Forest boss, Aitor Karanka, is also in with a shout, according to some bookmakers.
Asked by Sky Sports whether he’d be interested in a return to the Riverside Stadium, where he achieved promotion to the Premier League three years ago, Karanka refused to rule it out.
But not only do the following Nottingham Forest supporters expect the Basque to return to Middlesbrough, several of them fear he’ll take them up.
Karanka was sacked by Nottingham Forest in January, with the Trentside club seventh in the Championship and four points off the play-offs.
But they could only achieve a ninth-placed finish under his successor, Martin O’Neill, missing the top six by eight.
Middlesbrough also fell short, culminating in Pulis’s departure at the end of his contract.
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