Graham Potter has been nothing short of a disaster as West Ham manager and is the clear favourite to be the next manager sacked even though Ruben Amorim is in real trouble at Manchester United.
Potter has won just six of his 24 Premier League games in charge, giving him a near-exact record to Amorim’s Manchester United over the same period.
That has left him staring the sack in face, especially with some established and experienced managers out of work.
Premier League table since Graham Potter took over West Ham
Jose Mourinho has been linked with the West Ham job in recent weeks but Benfica have come calling, so the current favourites for the job – according to online bookies – are as follows:
10) Steve Cooper
Considering that the former Nottm Forest boss only joined Brøndby IF a week ago, he won’t be passing up on this opportunity to take over at West Ham.
9) Michael Carrick
He’s free for a start. And he’s ex-West Ham. But he has zero experience at managing in the Premier League and ultimately failed at Middlesbrough.
8) Sean Dyche
Now we’re talking. The Premier League is sorely missing Dyche’s no-nonsense approach and his appointment would certainly make West Ham stronger defensively.
4=) Gareth Southgate
Keeps finding himself towards the top of these markets (including the Manchester United one) but we cannot see Southgate taking a risk in the Premier League when he is very firmly on the corporate speaking trail.
4=) Kieran McKenna
Highly regarded but his current Championship form with Ipswich Town hardly makes him a credible candidate for a Premier League job. And he is on a hefty contract that will scare the living sh*t out of David Sullivan.
4=) Frank Lampard
They hate him. Next…
4=) Edin Terzic
In our manager move predictions, we have him at Aston Villa replacing Unai Emery but West Ham might be a lure as he was there as assistant to Slaven Bilic several moons ago. He was strongly linked when the Hammers were looking to replace Julen Lopetegui and he will be strongly linked again.
3) Gary O’Neil
He’s ex West Ham. And he speaks well. And we already had him nailed down for this job. As we predicted: ‘With the entirety of the football media in smugly self-satisfied ‘Careful what you wish for’ mode as West Ham languish at the foot of the table and David Moyes has Everton purring, everyone agrees to forget what an angry shambles O’Neil’s final few months at Wolves descended into, preferring instead to focus on the correctness of the Hammers appointing a Proper Football Man to bring back a bit of Moyesy steel to the Irons.
2) Slaven Bilic
Ha. Surely West Ham would not be daft enough to make Bilic a Premier League manager in the year 2025?! He’s done very little since leaving the Hammers in 20217.
1) Nuno Espirito Santo
The absolute stand-out candidate having been very harshly sacked by Nottingham Forest. He took a seemingly relegation-bound Forest into Europe and West Ham should absolutely be interested in that CV. It’s whether it makes almost too much sense for a daft club.
