Leaving aside the mediocre contenders like Southgate and Curbishley for a minute, the more I think about it, the more I think that it is a two-horse race between Sven and Bradley for this job, and thinking realistically, although they are both risky appointments, they both have marginally more positives than negatives.
Sven, I think, is the only manager to have the league and cup double in 3 different countries in Europe, so he knows how to manage a football team, and regardless of what people think of his commitment, has an attitude that would be refreshingly different to that of MON's. He's also managed in the country before, doing a decent job at Man City after Pearce's disaster.
Bradley has also done a good job getting the best out of quite a poor pool of USA players, with the exception of 1 or 2, getting them into the knock-out stages of two successive World Cups, and the final of the Confederations Cup last year where they narrowly lost to Brazil 3-2.
If we presume that Lerner isn't stupid enough to bring Southgate or Curbishley in, and that Moyes, Jol and Bilic won't take the job, then in my opinion it has to be one of those two.