Even though the Premier League season is just four games
old, you won’t be surprised to hear that the odds for the first managerialcausality are already out!
Despite back to back promotions Southampton’s Nigel Adkins
is the 7/4 favourite to be out of a job before anyone else! Incredibly harsh,
yes; however the relatively new chairman Nicola Cortese isn’t the most popular
with the St Mary’s faithful and dismissing the likeable Adkins would go someway
to ensure that popularity nosedives further!
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| Successive promotions won't save you from the sack! |
Andre Villas-Boas has only been at the club five minutes;
however he is joint second favourite in the sack race following an indifferent
start to Tottenham’s Premier League campaign. It won’t happen overnight and
hopefully Daniel Levy will give the former Chelsea manager time, and despite
picking up just five points from four games, the players appear to be on side
and have frequently defended Villas-Boas.
Along with Villas-Boas at 7/1 is QPR’s Mark Hughes. A very
good transfer window for the club has ensured that expectations at Loftus Road
will be high; however a start that has included the away trips to Manchester
City and Spurs, as well as the recent visit from the European Champions, is far
from ideal, and come the half-way stage QPR will be in and around the middle of
the Barclays Premier League, and Hughes will still be a job.
Both Brendan Rodgers and Sam Allardyce are at 10’s and for
me neither will be the first out of a job as one is there for the long-term
whilst the other will keep his side away from trouble!
For me the two who I’ve yet to mention who are at long odds
but are very much in the ‘sack-race’ are Roberto Di Matteo and Alan Pardew who
are 25/1 and 33/1 respectively. Two words sum up why these two are even
considered and they are ‘Crazy Owners'! Both Roman Abramovich and Mike Ashley
have previous when it comes to dismissing managers, and as crazy as it sounds,
if either Di Matteo or Pardew were sacked, it wouldn’t surprise me. Very little
in football does nowadays.
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| Ashley stunned the football world when he sacked Chris Hughton in 2010 |
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