Bookmakers now make Ajax boss Frank de Boer favourite to become Tottenham’s next manager, ousting previous front runner Mauricio Pochettino of Saints.

De Boer is open to speaking with Tottenham about taking over as manager at the end of the season.

After an illustrious playing career, the former Netherlands international has become a successful manager with the club whose fabled youth system he graduated from.

De Boer, who went on to play at Barcelona, Galatasaray, Rangers and then in Qatar, returned to Ajax as a coach following his retirement and has been first-team manager since 2010.

At the weekend he led the Amsterdam giants to a fourth-successive Eredivisie title, further harnessing a burgeoning reputation that has often seen him linked with a move away.

Tottenham and Monaco have been mentioned as potential summer destinations and De Boer has confirmed an interest in moving to White Hart Lane.

''I'm going to think about this possibility after the last league fixture on May 3,'' De Boer told nos.nl. ''I'm going to talk and listen.

''I would like to add something to a club, that people can say they see the hand of Frank de Boer.

''There is a beautiful example at Liverpool. That is what Brendan Rodgers is doing now making his mark.''

Reports suggest it is a matter of when rather than if Tim Sherwood will be replaced at the White Hart Lane helm, with chairman Daniel Levy ready to tear up the 18-month deal handed to him in December.