Premier League sack race: New odds-on favourite emerges after huge Saturday developments
The Premier League has already seen six managers lose their jobs in the first half of the 2025-26 campaign.
Nottingham Forest became the first club to show their boss the door back in September, when they dismissed Nuno Espirito Santo just three games into the league season.
Graham Potter quickly followed suit at West Ham, before the Reds gained their second managerial casualty of the campaign in Ange Postecoglou.
Vitor Pereira lost his job at bottom club Wolves at the start of November, before the turn of the year turned the heat up on several bosses across the league.
Both Enzo Maresca and Ruben Amorim were sacked in the opening days of 2026 after publicly questioning their respective boards, and another dismissal could now be just around the corner.
Thomas Frank no longer the favourite to be sacked next
Football Insider revealed last week that Thomas Frank needed results against Aston Villa and West Ham if he was to avoid losing his job, as the walls have been closing in on the Dane.
The former Brentford chief has been the bookmakers’ favourite to be the next Premier League manager to lose his job of late, and his Tottenham side have since lost both of those games that were set to be used as an assessment of his credentials.
However, Frank is no longer the favourite to be the division’s next sacking, after Oliver Glasner’s post-match comments following Crystal Palace’s defeat at Sunderland.
The Austrian suggested that he had been “abandoned” by Steve Parish and the club hierarchy, and those accusations have propelled him to the top of the running for the next sacking.
Glasner is now the odds-on favourite to lose his job next, with one major bookmaker even pricing him at odds as low as 4/5.
Frank and Arne Slot follow closely behind the Palace man, while West Ham’s win at Tottenham has drastically eased the pressure on Nuno Espirito Santo, who is now out at odds of 11/1.
Crystal Palace fans outraged by Oliver Glasner
Crystal Palace fans were outraged by Glasner’s statements on Saturday afternoon, with some even questioning whether he wanted to see out the remainder of his time with the club.
The 51-year-old recently confirmed that he will leave Selhurst Park when his contract expires in the summer, but fans have seen his post-match comments this weekend as something of a kamikaze move.
One supporter suggested that he is quickly “ruining his legacy” with the club, while several others made it clear that they now want to see him gone immediately.
Glasner has been held up as a hero by the same set of fans for his exploits in the dugout in recent years, but there is now a growing feeling that he is going about his imminent departure in very much the wrong way.