Postecoglou sack: Huge news emerges hours before Tottenham v Leicester
Tottenham Hotspur are under massive pressure to beat Leicester City as Ange Postecoglou sees his odds shorten to become the next Premier League boss to leave, according to BetVictor Casino.
The Spurs head coach is now 7/4 second-favourite as of Sunday morning (26 January) to be the next top-flight chief in England to get the chop or depart their post, behind the 4/7 favourite – his next opponent, Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Spurs host a Leicester outfit (26 January) on Sunday afternoon who, under van Nistelrooy, have lost each of their last seven league games. The Lilywhites have themselves not won in six league matches, but have garnered success in other competitions including Thursday’s vital 3-2 win at Hoffenheim in the Europa League (23 January).
Behind van Nistelrooy and Postecoglou in the running to be the next boss axed is Southampton’s Ivan Juric at 8/1, with Wolves’ Vitor Pereira at 16/1.
Tottenham under pressure in brutal odds development
Tottenham and Postecoglou are under immense pressure – they, and he, are evidently acutely aware of that pressure, too, by how they have acted of late.
The betting market can make brutal reading for managers, regardless of whether or not they care one iota. This is exemplified by the fact that of the four Premier League bosses marketed as likeliest to leave soonest, only Postecoglou has been in his current post longer than two months.
Van Nistelrooy joined Leicester on 29 November, and has so far lost seven of his 10 games in charge; Pereira joined Wolves on 19 December with four losses from eight, and Juric arrived at Southampton four days later with six defeats from seven – he was sacked by Roma only earlier this term.
It demonstrates how tough it really is to completely turn around a team’s fortunes in the top flight. If Tottenham – long considered one of the notorious ‘big six’ clubs – can struggle to the extent they have done, then managers of clubs battling the drop are on the ropes from the start.
As a result, Spurs and Leicester’s clash in North London could make for even more brutal viewing for one of the two in the dugout following the final whistle with the respective ownership regimes watching intently.
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