A 3-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest is just the latest blow for Tottenham boss Thomas Frank, who has led Spurs to 11th in his first season at the club.
These are the top 10 candidates to replace him at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, according to the latest odds from Oddschecker.
6=) Jurgen Klopp
Consistently cited as evidence of his imminent return to Anfield to save Liverpool in this crisis season, we draw your attention to this unequivocal statement: “I will never coach another team, a different team, in England.”
6=) Igor Tudor
Rewarded with a new contract by Juventus in the summer after guiding the Old Lady to fourth in Serie A, Tudor was sacked following three straight losses and an eight-match winless run. Essentially, he’s available.
8=) Carlos Corberan
He worked wonders at Valencia last season having been poached from West Brom, dragging the La Liga side from 19th after winning just two of their opening 17 fixtures, to 12th after nine wins and seven draws in the remaining games. It’s not going quite so well this season with Valencia 17th on 15 points from 16 games.
7) Xavi
The former Barcelona coach has been out of work since leaving Barcelona at the end of the 23/24 season, when it was reported that he was eyeing an ‘interesting’ club in the Premier League. There is no chance his use of the word aligns with what makes Tottenham ‘interesting’.
5=) Michael Carrick
An out-of-work manager who used to play for the club is impossible for the bookies to ignore when coming up with these odds, even when your quality as a manager is unproven in the Premier League and has been rather shown up by your Championship replacement doing quite a lot better than you.
5=) Roberto De Zerbi
There’s little doubt in our minds that he will at some point return to the Premier League, and we imagine a Jose Mourinho-like press conference upon his return after a period in France when the already eccentric and outspoken manager has gone up a couple of sound-bite gears.
While most wouldn’t dream of leaving Marseille in the lurch in what looks as though it could be a genuine title race with PSG, De Zerbi isn’t a typical manager and strikes us as the sort of guy who wouldn’t just leave, but do so noisily, leaving as much chaos in his wake as possible.
2=) Andoni Iraola
Just at the point where we start to wonder whether he’s in fact already too good for Tottenham, he slumps to a realistic candidate equilibrium.
2=) Brendan Rodgers
We want him back no matter where he goes – he’s near the top of the Leeds list – but Tottenham would be ideal. There could be no greater test of the man’s astonishing vanity than self-deprecation in football club form. It’s like David Brent meeting Millhouse and acknowledging after half-a-season of work with him on a more global scale that he too is a loser.
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2=) Marco Silva
Silva was strutting his stuff in the managerial shop window in north London a few weeks ago as the Spurs decision-makers were offered a glimpse of what it might look like to have him on the touchline.
He was himself recently under pressure for his job, not that anyone really expected Fulham to pull the trigger as we all now expect him to be their manager until the end of time, so perfectly matched are club and manager to each other.
1) Oliver Glasner
Crystal Palace are desperately trying to tie him down to a new deal as Glasner continues to work wonders at Selhurst Park, building on the FA Cup success despite losing Eberechi Eze in the summer, having lost Michael Olise the summer before.
The Eagles are a realistic bet to qualify for European competition through the Premier League and are the favourites to win the Conference League. Success with Frankfurt and now Palace does raise the question as to whether he’s an underdog manager. But that could work.