Charlton have expressed an interest in Keith Hill - but Blackburn remain in pole position for the Rochdale boss.
Rovers are thought to be slow in pushing through a deal and that has opened the door for the Addicks to enter the mix.
But Charlton already failed to entice Sheffield-born Chris Wilder when he decided to leave Northampton, as he eventually made the move back to his home city to become the new United manager.
And Hill is another that has been based in the north since moving into the dugout in 2006. The Bolton-born 47-year-old has had two spells in charge of Rochdale as well as a stint with Barnsley.
Hill has twice won promotion with Rochdale from League Two - in 2010 and 2014.
Charlton chief executive Katrien Meire has already stated the plan is to bring in a British boss for the first time since Roland Duchatelet bought the club.
But there remains a whole heap of jobs to do for the under-fire Belgian regime, who have still not appointed a head of recruitment.
Lennie Lawrence is also thought to have other options. He was interviewed about a director of football role but it has not been followed up with an offer.
Charlton have made getting a boss a priority before they move on to other roles at the club - with a whole raft of important positions not filled.
This post match interview does have me screaming with excitement if I'm honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxDr1IjNUM 
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A bit like Eddie Howe, but at a lower level.
How many British managers with good Championship experience are going to want to come?
For me, the focus on being British is a bit of a red herring. We just need somebody who's up to the task. The risk is in the club's desperation to go British to appease the fans, we'll end up with somebody at a much lower level than we could get from Europe.
That's not to say I want another Network nobody - but surely we should be considering all sensible options?
I don't think the desire for a British manager is to appease fans. I don't think they care. I think that they've been told that the only way to get back up straight away is to bring in a British manager, ala Chris Powell and what he did a few years ago. But what Powell did was very much the exception rather than the rule. Given the candidates on offer, or at least the ones we're after who might be able to be convinced to come here, it makes no sense to me to go after a British manager. We're better off giving a successful manager on the continent their first crack at English football, like Swansea and Brighton have done successfully in recent times.
I don't know where they're getting these names from (Lennie Lawrence), but it seems as though they're trying to cherry pick decent League Two managers and hope they can make the step up. Again, it seems to be doing things either on the cheap, or without fully understanding what they're doing, or both.
Being a manager of a lower league club doesn't make them unsuitable especially as we are now a lower league club.
Better than a Belgium 3rd division manager anyway.
Not sure he will 'buy into' Roland's model though but which self respecting manager would?
From the man who back Fraeye