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The Irish Sun
17 hours ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Leicester face battle to find a manager to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy amid points deduction fears
LEICESTER face a battle to convince their top managerial targets to take on the chaos gripping the crisis-hit club. The Foxes finally Liverpool with five games remaining. 7 Ruud van Nistelrooy left Leicester City this week 7 The Foxes were relegated back to the Championship after just one season Credit: Getty 7 Sean Dyche has been linked with the Leicester job Credit: Getty Sean Dyche and Sheffield Wednesday's departing boss Danny Rohl have emerged as the front-runners to replace the Dutchman following his marathon period as a dead-man walking. Former Wolves boss Gary O'Neil and ex-Middlesbrough manager Michael Carrick are also on Leicester's radar. However, club chiefs will find it tough to persuade any potential candidate to accept what increasingly appears to be a poisoned chalice. The Foxes seem to be in freefall and have a potential points deduction hanging over them in the Championship as Prem bosses READ MORE LEICESTER NEWS Meanwhile, the club's main backers, King Power , have been plunged into a financial crisis and are feared to be on the brink of collapse after running up eye-watering losses of £450million. Legendary striker Jamie Vardy quit the East Midlands outfit this summer to cut the last ties with the club's 5,000-1 title-winning team which famously lifted Premier League trophy in 2016. Everton and Manchester United looking to sign the powerful midfielder. No fewer than EIGHT players have entered the final year of their contracts, while Van Nistelrooy banished Most read in Football 7 Former Wolves boss Gary O'Neil has been linked with taking over at the King Power Stadium Credit: AP 7 Manchester United legend Michael Carrick is also on the Foxes' radar after leaving Middlesbrough last month Credit: PA CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS With little cash available to patch up a wafer-thin squad already low on confidence following relegation, the new boss may also struggle to convince potential targets to join. It is a bleak prospect for Leicester chiefs — club chairman Aiyawatt 'Top' Srivaddhanaprabha and beleaguered director of football Jon Rudkin — as they try to find 48-year-old Van Nistelrooy's replacement. Ruud Van Nistelrooy speaks after Leicester relegated to the Championship Title-winner pre-season training on Monday. The 35-year-old former wideman told SunSport: 'Most clubs are prepared for the worst now. 'They sack their manager in the morning and by the afternoon they've got someone else in charge. 'But it will be hard for Leicester to get someone in with a potential points deduction hanging over the club. 'Any new manager will be conscious of that and won't want to commit until they know what they're dealing with. 7 Title-winner Marc Albrighton exclusively opened up about his fears to SunSport Credit: Getty 'The fans will be expecting an early appointment, given the length of time the board must have known Ruud was going. 'But I wouldn't be too hasty with a new appointment. 'I'd be really thorough because they MUST get this appointment right. 'They obviously went through two major managerial changes last season, and they won't want to go through that again. 'They'll want a manager who is hopefully going to be there for quite a while. So I wouldn't be rushing too much into it if I was them." 7 Jamie Vardy and Albrighton won the Premier League, FA Cup and Championship together at Leciester Credit: Getty
Daily Mirror
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Wolves vs Brentford prediction, odds and betting offer
Wolves will be keen to end their home campaign on a high, while Brentford will aim to finish as strongly as possible Wolves have experienced a season of stark contrasts in 2024-2025. The early months under Gary O'Neil were fraught with challenges, as the team flirted dangerously with relegation. A demanding fixture list coupled with a struggle to find the back of the net left fans at Molineux anxious about their Premier League survival. However, the appointment of Vítor Pereira in December marked a turning point. His leadership brought renewed energy and tactical acumen, sparking a remarkable revival. Wolves embarked on an impressive winning streak, particularly against teams in similar league positions, which comfortably secured their top-flight status. This transformation highlights Pereira's influence and the squad's resilience. In their final match, Wolves aim to consolidate their mid-table finish and demonstrate the progress made under Pereira. A victory would further endorse his strategies and send fans into the summer with renewed hope, especially as the club plans to bolster its squad. Brentford, led by Thomas Frank, have also navigated a challenging yet stable season. Since their promotion in 2021, the Bees have consistently exceeded expectations, establishing themselves as a formidable Premier League side. This season has been no exception, despite facing injury setbacks to key players. Brentford have once again secured their place in the league without much fuss, avoiding the fate that often befalls newly-promoted teams. Their success is largely attributed to a smart recruitment strategy and a clear tactical approach. In this final fixture, Brentford aims to climb as high as possible in the standings, potentially eyeing European qualification depending on other results and Chelsea's performance in the Conference League final against Real Betis. A win at Molineux combined with a Tottenham victory over Brighton could see Brentford finish eighth, possibly securing European football. Even if they fall short, finishing strong would cap off another impressive season and set a positive tone for summer transfers. Brentford's ability to integrate new talent and maintain a cohesive team structure amidst speculation about star players and managerial changes underscores their well-managed framework. Wolves vs Brentford Odds Wolves - 42/100 Draw - 15/4 Brentford - 11/2 18+ | Gamble responsibly | | Odds subject to change Wolves vs Brentford Betting Tips Both teams to score - 4/9 Jorgen Larsen to score anytime - 11/8 18+ | Gamble responsibly | | Odds subject to change Gamble responsibly Reach plc is committed to promoting safer gambling. All of our content and recommended bets are advised to those aged 18 or over. Odds are subject to change too. We strongly encourage our readers to only ever bet what they can afford to lose. For more information, please call the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 or visit
Wales Online
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Wales Online
Cardiff City next manager odds as Premier League greats tipped but list tells its own story
Cardiff City next manager odds as Premier League greats tipped but list tells its own story The Bluebirds will be looking to appoint a new manager at the end of the season Former Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Gary O'Neil (Image: Getty Images ) Aaron Ramsey's three-match reign as Cardiff City caretaker manager began with a frustrating 1-1 draw with Oxford United on Easter Monday. Given the Bluebirds were the only team in the bottom five not to win on that day, it makes relegation to League One all the more likely, even if they do still have a puncher's chance in the final two matches. Supporters' eyes will doubtless turn to the bookmakers' odds list for who might be in line to take on the job this summer, however in all likelihood it will depend on which division the club finds itself in next season. Article continues below Ramsey (3/1) himself leads the bookies' list of favourites, however the Wales captain appeared to dismiss that out of hand after his first game in charge, insisting he was going to recover from his most recent hamstring injury setback and is determined to don the boots again. 'I am just taking these three games. I'm still recovering from a hamstring operation, I'm still in the middle of rehab and I'm focused on getting back to full fitness," he said. "This is a role where it's going to be an intense 10 days now then I can relax and get back into my rehab. I'm just looking at the next two.' It's not totally out of the realms of possibility that he takes on a player-manager role, of course, however that places a lot of potential strain and responsibility on him at an already crisis-stricken club. Join the Cardiff City breaking news and top stories WhatsApp community. Former Bluebirds midfielder Gary O'Neil is next on the list at 8/1. While Cardiff fans would bite your hand off to have him at the helm following his work with Bournemouth and Wolves, his last two jobs have been in the Premier League and it's highly unlikely he will drop down two divisions. The same can be said of Sean Dyche (12/1) and Steven Gerrard (12/1), who will surely have their sights set higher. Indeed, former Swansea City manager Steve Cooper (12/1), who guided Nottingham Forest to the Premier League before taking over at Leicester City, was touted for the Bluebirds job after Erol Bulut left, but WalesOnline were told he was aiming higher than a relegation scrap in the second tier - therefore a League One club is almost certainly out of the question. Rob Edwards (12/1) succeeded in League Two with Forest Green before getting sacked at Watford. He steered Luton to the Premier League, then to relegation again and endured a disaster in the second tier before his sacking. He might just end up keen on a League One club. Wayne Rooney (14/1) is an interesting one. A big name, something Vincent Tan is bound to like, a young manager but someone who has failed at three Championship clubs, he is likely to drop into League One. He'd represent a huge gamble, though, given his track record. Neil Warnock (14/1) was always going to be on the list, but at 76, even for him, a permanent job in the dugout is surely beyond him now. Another interesting name is Des Buckingham (16/1), who helped guide Oxford United to promotion from League One and has admirers among the City fan base. Clearly, though, the below list tells its own story. Full of star-studded names and experienced managers, all of whom are no doubt aiming higher up the pyramid, while the odd name or two sticks out as a potentially reasonable shout. Either way, the picture is only likely to become far clearer once relegation is confirmed - or not, if that is somehow the case come full time at Carrow Road. The pool will get smaller and those more aspirational names will, very likely, disappear. Cardiff City next manager odds Aaron Ramsey 3/1 Gary O'Neil 8/1 Steven Gerrard 12/1 Sean Dyche 12/1 Steve Cooper 12/1 Rob Edwards 12/1 Liam Rosenior 14/1 Wayne Rooney 14/1 Neil Warnock 14/1 Ian Holloway 16/1 David Wagner 16/1 Des Buckingham 16/1 Shaun Maloney 16/1 Ryan Mason 16/1 Darren Moore 16/1 Grant McCann 16/1 Nathan Jones 16/1 Noel Hunt 16/1 Richie Wellens 16/1 Ralph Hasenhutl 20/1 Rob Page 20/1 Leighton Baines 20/1 Leam Richardson 20/1 Graham Alexander 20/1 Article continues below (Courtesy of BetVictor. 18+.) Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here.
The Independent
22-04-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Next Southampton manager odds: Rohl firm favourite for St Mary's hotseat
Danny Rohl has once again been installed by betting sites as the favourite to be named the new Southampton boss, just as he was when the position was last vacant last December. The Sheffield Wednesday boss is a best-price of 6/4 to take over at St Mary's having been the same odds to replace Russell Martin at the end of last year. On that occasion, the club opted to make a left-field appointment and hire Ivan Juric, who only won two of his 16 games in charge. Juric was sacked as soon as their relegation was confirmed having failed to mount any more resistance against the drop than Martin managed. Relegation has looked a certainty for most of the season and in hindsight, Rohl would have been the better long-term option. At least now, they would be ready to hit the ground running back in the EFL, with a manager who knows what to expect from that level. Rohl has done a great job in difficult circumstances at Sheffield Wednesday. Last season he saved them from relegation, while Wednesday currently sit 13th in the Championship table, 10 points off the top six after beating play-off chasing Middlesbrough 2-1 on Monday. Several football betting sites make him odds-on to take charge at St Mary's, ahead of the likes of Gary O'Neil, Will Still and Steven Gerrard. Rohl has a history at Southampton, after spending eight months at the club in 2019 as assistant manager to Ralph Hasenhuttl before leaving to join Bayern Munich, where he worked as an assistant to Hansi Flick, before following him to the German national team for two years. The 35-year-old took charge at Hillsborough in October 2023 with the club seven points from safety and he kept them up with wins over Blackburn Rovers, West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland in their last three matches of the season. Next Southampton Manager Odds Manager Odds Betting site Danny Rohl 6/4 BetVictor Gary O'Neil 4/1 LiveScore Bet Will Still 12/1 Parimatch Steven Gerrard 12/1 Bet365 Chris Davies 20/1 BetVictor Chris Hughton 33/1 Unibet John Terry 33/1 BetMGM Still and O'Neil Trimmed Bookmakers were quick to instal Rohl as the favourite in the next Southampton manager market, but the list of potential candidates behind him continues to shift. Former Wolves and Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil has seen his odds cut to 4/1 as he looks to get back into management after leaving Wolves at the end of last year. He's also in the frame to be the next West Brom manager and has been mentioned in connection with the Norwich job. Will Still's odds have also been cut as he continues to impress in France. He did fantastic work at Reims before moving to Lens this season, guiding them to eighth in Ligue 1. Gerrard Back Among The Favourites Steven Gerrard has been out of work since leaving Saudi Pro League side Al Ettifaq, by mutual consent, at the end of January. This is the type of job we would expect to see him linked with, along with the West Brom job, where he is also 12/1 to replace Tony Mowbray. But he is also the favourite on betting apps to return to Rangers at the end of the season, and he may wait to see what is happening at Ibrox before committing his future elsewhere. He won the Scottish Premiership title in 2020/21 without losing a single league match, securing 102 points and conceding only 13 goals across 38 matches. That was the last time Rangers won the title, with Celtic dominating ever since. Outside Chance Chris Hughton is a new name on the list and one we haven't seen linked with many jobs since he was sacked by Nottingham Forest in 2021. Since then, he has been with Ghana, first as technical advisor to the national team's coaching staff before taking charge of the Black Stars in February 2023. However, he was sacked just 12 months later after failing to get through the group stages of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The former Spurs and Brighton boss has plenty of experience and enjoyed promotion from the Championship with Newcastle in 2010, losing just four of their 46 matches. He was also promoted with Brighton in 2017, when they finished as runners-up to Newcastle, so could he be given the chance to make it a hat-trick of promotions with Southampton. He's a 33/1 chance along with former Chelsea and England captain John Terry. Please gamble responsibly When using gambling sites, be aware that sports betting can be addictive so please take steps to remain in control of your time and budget. The same applies whether you're using new betting sites, slot sites, casino sites, casino apps, or any other gambling medium. 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The Guardian
12-04-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Pereira flourishes at Wolves until the boom-bust cycle repeats itself
Managers rise and managers fall and often there isn't much reason for it. It was only a year ago that Gary O'Neil seemed one of the brightest young managers in the Premier League, but by December it was over. This is how football is: when a blip becomes a slump becomes a spiral, the only solution is the sacrifice of the manager. It often works: Wolves have improved dramatically under Vítor Pereira and, while they may not yet be mathematically safe from relegation, they surely soon will be. The life of man, the folk carol reminds us, is but a span; the life of a manager is even shorter (but a spanager?). O'Neil had replaced Scott Parker at Bournemouth four games into 2022-23, after their 9-0 defeat by Liverpool, and had kept them up comfortably, only to be jettisoned for Andoni Iraola. He took over Wolves less than a week before last season began and had them in the top half in March. But form collapsed last season after an FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Coventry and they finished 14th. When O'Neil was dismissed in December, Wolves lay second-bottom, five points from the last safe spot, having won three of his final 26 league games. He had begun almost visibly to unravel, the intense gaze developing an unnerving wildness as he discussed another video assistant referee outrage. There was a period when it felt the main justification for keeping VAR was as a morally dubious psychological experiment in just how far one man could be pushed, O'Neil as a modern-day Job but with poverty and boils replaced by Howard Webb and inconsistent interpretations of what it is to be interfering. How could he pick up 1.24 points per game in the first 62 Premier League games of his managerial career and then crash to 0.54 points per game in their next 26? It's not just O'Neil; plenty of other managers have followed a similar trajectory. Is it just regression to the mean, as those who deny the phenomenon of the new-manager bounce would claim? Can it really just be confidence, that once opposing sides start to work a manager out and results begin to falter, players lose faith and need a new messiah? This is such a familiar phenomenon, it's perhaps overlooked how strange it is, the way it's almost accepted in the lower reaches of the Premier League that after 18 months or so a manager's usefulness is somehow spent and he must be replaced. Perhaps it is even true. Perhaps there is a limit to how many defeats, how much pressure, any one manager can take. Perhaps players need the change to break the routine. For Wolves, replacing O'Neil was the only realistic step after losing at home to Ipswich in a game when their players lost all discipline, with Rayan Aït-Nouri sent off during a post-match confrontation when Matheus Cunha stole a pair of glasses from a member of the opposing staff. As Southampton and Leicester have shown, while it may be straightforward enough to work out when a manager has to be jettisoned, finding the right replacement is far harder. While the huge gulf that exists between the Premier League and the Championship is clearly a major factor, none of what has happened in the past four months has been inevitable. In fairness, Ivan Juric, appointed four days after Pereira, had an almost impossible task, one he took on with an admirably sanguine attitude. As he gave detailed instructions to his substitutes at Tottenham last Sunday with his side 2-0 down and about to be relegated, it was possible to believe he had somehow managed to miss Southampton's results for the previous months. But fair play for the seriousness with which he took the task of trying to avert the earliest relegation in Premier League history. Leicester's decision to turn to Ruud van Nistelrooy at the end of November, though, looks deeply flawed. However unpopular Steve Cooper was, with his Nottingham Forest connections and the perception he played negative football, under him Leicester were not losing eight successive home games without scoring; the last time they scored a home goal O'Neil was still manager of Wolves and Russell Martin was still at Southampton. Wolves, though, do seem to have found the right man in Pereira. They go into Sunday's game at home to Tottenham having taken 23 points from 15 games under him. They began the weekend 12 points clear of the drop zone, having gained 20 on Leicester, 18 on Southampton and 15 on Ipswich in just over three months. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Pereira's first task, after that volcanic ending against Ipswich, was to restore calm. It helps that there is a worldliness to him, having coached in eight countries, and that he has historically been the volatile one. This was not the earnest O'Neil with his neat haircut appealing for order, it was somebody familiar with chaos, somebody who has at times been its agent. When you have returned to Fenerbahce after taking them to court, or used your mother‑in‑law's health as an excuse to quit Corinthians only to take over at Flamengo a month later, some post‑match argy-bargy and spectacle theft probably does not feel that significant. He has been very astute in getting fans on board, not just in what he has said, his talk of the great Wolves family, but in visiting pubs, drinking pints and eating pies. At the same time, Wolves look better organised and are conceding fewer. Cunha has scored some vital goals and in his absence Jørgen Strand Larsen, a very different type of forward, has stepped up with four goals in three games. But those are details. The most important aspect is the mood Pereira has created, partly through his personality, partly through well-chosen gimmicks and partly through his organisational capacity. That will change at some point, perhaps in a few months, perhaps in a few years. He will be ousted, and the next messiah will come in. That is how football is. The life of managers is as grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
