Next Premier League manager sacked odds: Odds cut on struggling Spurs boss

It was another tough day at the office for Ange Postecoglou, as he followed up bruising defeats to Liverpool and Nottingham Forest with narrow loss to Newcastle. 

After two managerial casualties earlier in December, the Spurs gaffer is most certainly on the endangered list. Indeed, Spurs have now lost more games than they have won this season – something unthinkable in the days of Mauricio Pochettino and his oft-unplayable axis of Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son.

However, West Ham boss Julen Lopetegui still remains the favourite to be the next manager to leave, after they felt the wrath of Manchester City, being struck down by a 4-1 thumping.

Best next manager sacked odds – top 10 favourites

As we can see in the latest table, it seems to be between Lopetegui and Postecoglou. However, there are still quite a few very tempting offers available with a number of managers struggling to get their teams in gear.

Selections to watch

Julen Lopetegui (West Ham)

Priced at 5/4, Lopetegui is currently the clear bookies' favourite to be the next manager to lose his job.

A 1-1 draw against Brighton just before Christmas made it one win from five for the Irons. A 1-0 away victory against bottom side Southampton followed that up, though there was more than an element of fortune, as Lukas Fabianski pulled off a couple of excellent saves before being stretchered off after a nasty collision.

However, consecutive harrowing defeats at the hands of Arne Slot and Pep Guardiola successively have humbled Lopetegui's Hammers in dramatic fashion.

5-0 and 4-1 defeats have shown not only the team's defensive frailties, but exposed their blunt attack in the face of some of the division's top defences.

West Ham remain 14th in the Premier League, the position in which they have sat for most of the season, having won only six of their 20 fixtures thus far. 39 goals conceded highlights that it is the Hammers' weak defence that has been letting them down.

Lopetegui was brought in to revolutionise the at–times stale football being implemented by David Moyes, but he has been unable to improve the club's fortunes.

5/4 seems a decent shout for most punters in the current market.

Ange Postecoglou (Tottenham)

A disastrous weekend against Newcastle saw Ange Postecoglou's odds of being the next manager to leave shrink to 2/1. He had previously been priced at 12/1 to be the next dismissed, so this represented a substantial shift in the market.

Spurs have been consistently underperforming this season, and are currently winless in their last four matches, having been humbled 6-3 by Liverpool and also defeated 1-0 by Nottingham Forest prior to Christmas.

Although Postecoglou's side have been high scorers, they have been woeful defensively, conceding 30 goals, only five fewer than Ipswich, who sit in the relegation zone.

With his team in 12th place, it would seem the writing may already be on the wall for the big Australian in 2025.

Sean Dyche (Everton)

Everton have had one major issue this season under Sean Dyche and it does not seem to be fixable. The team have struggled to score throughout the campaign, and the problem has now reached worrying proportions.

Excluding a freak 4-0 win over Wolves in which Craig Dawson scored two own goals, the Toffees have only scored one goal in their last nine Premier League games, which is a genuinely shocking record.

Even Southampton, who sit bottom on a record low six points, have managed two goals in their last five matches.

At 10/3, Dyche seems likely to go, and with Everton now only a point above the drop zone, it could be curtains for the Englishman's time at Goodison Park.

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