Given that he quit the game for a short while I think Allardici may have lost some of his love for football. But not money. I could see him coming back for a bumper survival bonus without committing himself further.
Conversely my imagination tells me TP would hold out for the potential security of a longer term contract/pay off. For those reasons alone, even before discussing the validity of centre backs playing at full back and football only being played in pre determined areas of the pitch, I see the fat one as favourite out of the two mentioned above.