Premier League news: Who will be the first EPL manager to leave his post in the 2025/26 season?

The 2025/26 Premier League season hasn’t even begun and already the ‘next manager to leave his post’ market is open for business.

Surprisingly, it took until late October before the first Premier League manager lost his job in the 2024/25 season.

That was Erik ten Hag getting his marching orders from Manchester United, which already feels like a lifetime ago.

Then we had a splurge of managerial sackings, with Steve Cooper leaving Leicester City in November before Gary O’Neil and Russell Martin departed Wolves and Southampton, respectively, on the same day in December.

West Ham binned Julen Lopetegui in January, and a day later Sean Dyche was given his marching orders by Everton.

Three months went by before Southampton sacked their Martin replacement, Ivan Jurić, in April, and that was it for another season of sackings.

Somehow, Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy dodged the bullet until the off-season. We are still not sure how.

Now the fire is lit on the new season’s managerial BBQ, and there’s already a few pieces of meat jostling for position to go on the grill first.

Here, Sports News Blitz writer Jeff Mexico takes a look at the runners and riders for the 2025/26 campaign.

(All odds are correct at time of publication and subject to change.)

Keith Andrews (Brentford) – 4/1

The only Premier League manager on this list you would walk straight past in a supermarket without batting an eyelid.

As a player, Andrews made over 350 appearances for 12 different clubs and racked up 35 international caps for the Republic of Ireland, and still nobody knows who he is.

He was set-piece coach at Brentford before being given his first managerial job after Thomas Frank joined Tottenham, a gigantic leap of faith by the Brentford top brass.

It’s like rocking up to clean the windows at the Houses of Parliament only to discover that you’ve been made prime minister after lunch.

Nobody holds much hope for Andrews keeping his job, as bookies have installed him as the 4/1 favourite to be the next manager to leave his post.

With manager, captain, and striker all leaving, bookies don’t hold much faith in Brentford retaining their place in the Premier League either – they are 3/1 to be relegated and 12/1 to finish bottom … which isn’t a bad price.

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Daniel Farke (Leeds United) – 9/2

Here’s a manager who probably feels like he’s been sacked before the season starts.

As soon as Leeds won the 2024/25 EFL Championship title, the rumour mill was rife that Farke was on the verge of being booted.

Farke doesn’t have the greatest record in the Premier League, you see.

He was sacked by Norwich City despite getting them promoted twice, and his record in the top flight from 49 games is just six wins and 35 defeats.

So everyone put two and two together and came up with 11, presuming that awful record meant curtains for the German.

But Leeds stuck with their man.

The fixture list has been relatively kind in the early stages of the season, though, so if the club starts badly he could be on a very slippery slope.

Régis Le Bris (Sunderland) – 6/1

I take back what I said about Keith Andrews. Régis Le Bris is also a manager you’d walk past in the supermarket without batting an eyelid.

He sounds like the main character in a badly written French detective novel too. Where he solves zero crimes and spends most of his time looking out of a cafe window. And not a cafe in Paris either; somewhere bleak like Calais.

Sunderland, to be fair, have spent some cash in a bid to keep the relegation wolves from the door.

But we all know they are going to be down there scraping. Will they be doing it with Le Bris at the helm is the question.

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Scott Parker (Burnley) – 13/2

Burnley, with Parker at the helm, grimly clawed their way back into the Premier League after a one-year absence and many believe that they’ll go straight back down again.

Parker, like Farke, is a manager who can certainly get teams promoted, having taken both Fulham and Bournemouth to the promised land.

But, much like Farke, he seems to implode when he reaches the top of the tree.

After a 9-0 defeat to Liverpool, he famously slagged off Bournemouth’s transfer policy, which got him the sack. He also left Fulham after failing to keep them in the top flight.

Burnley only lost twice in the league in the 2024/25 Championship, but it will be a miracle if Parker pulls that off again.

Nuno Espírito Santo (Nottingham Forest) – 9/1

The ‘next manager to leave’ market has always been cruel and especially so with Nuno over his career.

Apart from the 2024/25 season, where he pushed out to as big as 100/1 in the market, he is usually in the top five.

Bookies have had no faith in him at Wolves, Spurs, and – for a good chunk of the time – Forest.

Now they’ve gone back to their default position with Nuno, with many expecting that the club’s adventures in Europe this season will impact their league form.

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Graham Potter (West Ham United) – 11/1

Potter had a free hit when he joined West Ham last season as they weren’t in contention for Europe and were unlikely to be relegated.

Lopetegui’s reign did nothing for the players’ confidence and Potter spent most of his time shoring up a very leaky defence.

And so the 2024/25 season was added to the already bulging West Ham file labelled ‘meh’.

Now the job really starts for Potter. The natives are starting to whinge a little, and if they don’t start the season in style … well, whinges at West Ham usually turn into full-scale fan marches and idiots running on to the pitch.

West Ham have three London derbies in their first five games, and Potter will be top of this market if the Irons are given a slapping by Chelsea, Tottenham, or (more than likely) both.

Ruben Amorim (Manchester United) – 12/1

United fans thought they had the greatest manager since sliced bread when Amorim took over from Ten Hag last November.

Then it turned out he was just the heel of the loaf when they lost to Tottenham in the Europa League final and finished 15th in the table.

Amorim was up and down this market like a yo-yo last season and he really needs some good cheer at the start of the season to lift the club – and his reputation – out of the doldrums.

What’s that you say … Arsenal, Manchester City, and Chelsea in their first five games … oh dear, Ruben.

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Vítor Pereira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) – 14/1

After Pereira totally turned around Wolves’ fortunes last season, a price of 14/1 appears to be a little short.

Wolves are in the same boat with Brentford at 3/1 when it comes to relegation, but they’ve made some interesting signings and could be well clear of trouble.

What’s more likely is Pereira walking of his own accord. After all, he’s not a manager that hangs around long.

The Portuguese has already been head coach at 13 clubs, six of those in the 2020s alone. Could he be tempted away again?

Rest of the ‘next manager to leave’ odds

Eddie Howe (Newcastle United) – 16/1

Oliver Glasner (Crystal Palace) – 20/1

Marco Silva (Fulham) – 20/1

Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth) – 20/1

Fabian Hürzeler (Brighton & Hove Albion) – 20/1

Thomas Frank (Tottenham Hotspur) – 28/1

Enzo Maresca (Chelsea) – 28/1

David Moyes (Everton) – 28/1

Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) – 33/1

Unai Emery (Aston Villa) – 33/1

Mikel Arteta (Arsenal) – 66/1

Arne Slot (Liverpool) – 80/1

No manager to leave – 150/1

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