Motherwell have revealed that they are hoping to appoint their new manager in time for their match against Ross County next weekend.
The Scottish Premiership side have been without a boss for the last month after Stuart McCall resigned in November.
After confirming that two candidates have already been interviewed for the post, general manager Alan Burrows told BBC Scotland: "We'll speak to another couple at the start of next week. At that point the board, hopefully, can sit down, go through them, make the decision and the aim is to try and have something sorted out before the Ross County game in a best-case scenario.
"We spoke to two people [on Friday] and both interviews were absolutely excellent, very encouraging. If nothing happened on Monday, we'd still feel confident we could have at least a decision between two so that's how good it was.
"We had 58 serious applications for the jobs, all weird and wonderful names, some really distinctive, some not so much, it was a really difficult process even just to whittle that down given how many good candidates and how many strong candidates, many with experience in very senior leagues in world football."
Caretaker manager Kenny Black and former Motherwell midfielder Rob Maaskant have both been linked with the vacancy.
