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Hasenhuttl Rumours Rife As Odds To Be Sacked Shorten !

Saints social media is rife with rumours that Ralph Hasenhuttl is about to become the next Premier League manager to be sacked, however no one can quite pinpoint where these rumours are coming from.

As I always point out when odds for a manager to be sacked change dramatically, this is a fun betting market and it has the opportunity for someone with insider information to take the bookies for a few bob if they can get money on quick on a change of manager.

Therefore odds in this market shorted at the drop of a hat for even the least significant movement in betting patterns.

Ralph Hasenhuttl's odds to be the next manager to be sacked shortened drastically today and have dropped to as low as 7/4 with some bookmakers.

However he is still not the favourite to be sacked, that remains Brendan Rodgers at Leicester City.

The rumour mill is saying that Ralph will be sacked at some point this afternoon and that his replacement is already in lined up.

Some are saying that he is already at the club and that Ruben Selles who joined back in June as Ralph's lead coach was appointed with the intention that he would succeed the Austrian.

Certainly there have already been changes in the coaching set up since the revamp in the summer that saw Selles arrive, Alex Clapham came and went after barely two months as the coach responsible for set pieces.

The rumours back then were that Clapham had clashed with Selles who had not let him get on with the job and had interfered with Clapham's work on the training field, certainly what we do know is that Clapham left under a cloud.

So if the rumour mill is correct then Ralph Hasenhuttl, wont be manager of Saints by the end of today, we will soon find out if this is just a rumour flying around due to a few people putting on money on him being sacked, or whether this has real substance.

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