Who Is The Bookies Favourite For Next Saints Manager ?
Claude Puel's future looks set to be decided in the next week, in the meantime we take a look at who might be the next manager at St Mary's in the eyes of the bookies.
It is not surprising who is the favourite for the Saints managers hot seat. Marco Silva is 6/4 due mainly to plenty of media speculation that he has already been approached about taking over from Claude Puel and the wheels are in motion.
But the next few candidates are a little more surprising, second favourite is Eddie Howe with odds of 17/2, he has had another strong season with Bournemouth and achieved the same number of points as Saints with a far smaller squad and one of supposed lesser quality.
Whether Howe would want the job though is another matter, on one hand he will know that he has probably taken Bournemouth as far as he can, they do not have the resources to go much higher, on the other whilst a club of the stature of Saints would be a logical step for him, it would be one that would alienate him from a large section of the Cherries support who see Saints as their rivals.
Joint third favourites are Claudio Ranieri and Unai Emery both at 9/1, Ranieri is currently not with any club after his shock sacking from Leicester City and is known to want to stay in the Premier League whilst Emery is still at Paris Saint Germain, but is rumoured to be on his way after PSG failed to win the French Ligue 1 title and went out of the Champions League after losing a 4-0 lead from the first leg against Barcelona and crashing 6-1 in Spain.
After that you are looking at the usual suspects named in every club's list when a vacancy comes up, Alan Pardew 11/1, Roy Hodgson 12/1, although Frank De Boer a strong candidate back in the summer before joining Inter Milan and currently unemployed is a good bet at 33/1.
All the signs from St Mary's have not been very positive for Claude Puel with Ralph Krueger instead of backing his manager stating that an internal review would be taking place and if the rumours of dressing room discontent are true it is hard to see the Frenchman keeping his job.
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