Millwall remain on the lookout for a new manager to take over from Neil Harris, who left the club last week after a 1-1 draw against Luton Town.

The Lions have certainly got all the foundations in place to build something exciting in the years to come – the win over Leeds underlined that on Saturday – but Harris felt as though his time had come at the club, and now the Bermondsey side needs to get the next appointment spot on.

The likes of former player Tim Cahill and ex-Stoke and Derby manager Gary Rowett have been touted for the job, and for former Lions captain Alan Dunne both might be worth a look, though it’s imperative that whoever is appointed gets the club and has a real passion for representing the Lions and the fans.

Dunne told Football League World exclusively:

“To manage Millwall you have to know the club and what the fans want and demand and you have to have a love for the club.

“It’s a decision that needs to be taken very carefully because over the years we’ve had some good managers there and some not so good managers there.

“It’s difficult, you need someone that the fans want and that has experience but then that’s not everything, Neil was young when he took over so getting that balance of a bit of experience and a bit of love for the club is what could take Millwall further because you’ve got to be strong mentally and show a passion for the club.

“John Berylson and the board have been through this before and they’ve learned from their mistakes so I think they’ll get it right.

Cahill, a former Millwall player having spent two spells there during his career, would represent an inexperienced option but also one that knows the club and its supporters very well.

For Dunne, he might be worth a look, but the club needs to weigh up the lack of managerial experience he has:

“Timmy knows the club very well but he hasn’t got any experiencing of managing so you could say he might be good with other people around him but then you could say an Alan Dunne would be good with the right people around him, we’re both in a similar boat.

“Timmy would be great for the fans, he knows the game and it’s a possibility. I’m sure he’d be interested in it like Kevin Muscat, who I heard earlier this week in an interview saying he’d be interested in the job.

“It’s a big club and a great club to be a part of if you’re a manager or a coach and I’m sure if there’s an opportunity for one of them they’d be very much interested.”

A more experienced name being linked, meanwhile, is Rowett’s. He knows the league well after spells with Birmingham, Stoke and Derby and Dunne reckons he could well be worth a shot at The Den:

I like Gary Rowett. I played against him and I like him, he’s got experience from managing the likes of Stoke and Derby and it wouldn’t surprise me if he got it. The question would be can he take the club further? But I think that he would be a fair candidate for the job.”