Odds slashed: Sean Dyche backed for instant return by accepting offer to manage top club
Sean Dyche is expected to feature in the running for several vacant managerial positions after he was dismissed at Nottingham Forest.
Just hours after his side drew 0-0 with Wolves on Wednesday, Dyche was sacked by Nottingham Forest.
The 54-year-old only took over in October but has become the third managerial casualty at the City Ground this season, following Ange Postecoglou and Nuno Espirito Santo.
Vitor Pereira has emerged as the favourite for Nottingham Forest, with the ex-Wolves coach available after leaving the Premier League‘s bottom club in November.
Tottenham are among the sides looking for a new manager, after they dismissed Thomas Frank this week.
Sean Dyche backed for Leicester City job
Leicester City sacked Marti Cifuentes at the end of January, and the Foxes are still yet to install a replacement.
Amid a fourth consecutive loss on Tuesday, however, in which the home side went 3-0 up against Southampton before losing 4-3, the pressure has risen significantly.
Only goal difference separates the Foxes from the relegation zone now, and the fixtures are not due to get any easier.
Leicester will face Middlesbrough, Norwich City and Ipswich Town in the coming weeks, as they attempt to stop the rot.
A new manager may well be required for that, however, and Dyche has been thrown into the running following his dismissal at Nottingham Forest.
With the Englishman having been linked with the Leicester job before, his odds of taking over have been slashed to 7/2 in the hours following his sacking.
One major bookmaker continues to back Ralph Hasenhuttl as the favourite at 11/4, but both his and Gary Rowett‘s (3/1) odds have drifted in light of Dyche’s sudden availability.
Dyche previously dismissed Leicester links
Dyche has struggled to find a long-term home since his departure from Burnley in 2022.
The 54-year-old transformed the Clarets over an almost 10-year tenure at Turf Moor, but was dismissed when his side sat in the Premier League relegation zone with eight games remaining of the 2021-22 season.
Stints at Everton and Nottingham Forest have followed, but Dyche has been unable to truly mark his stamp on them.
| Sean Dyche | Burnley |
| Wins | 152 |
| Draws | 114 |
| Losses | 159 |
| Scored | 498 |
| Conceded | 539 |
“The Leicester thing was a complete myth,” he said in 2025 after he had been linked to the vacant job at the King Power Stadium.
“Not Leicester, not their fault, the media made out I’d been interviewed, I hadn’t been, so that was just noise.
“I’m not remotely sad I won’t go back in or any of that, but I mean it just takes time sometimes and the right job and the right situation and sometimes the right timing for the job and the job that I can do and the chance to fulfil that job.”
Leicester could now provide that opportunity once again, should Dyche be keen for a job with more humble demands.