Rafa Benitez, Mauricio Pochettino, Max Allegri and more have been touted as potential replacements for Steve Bruce at the end of the 2019/20 campaign, but what are the bookmakers saying?
Here’s the latest manager odds put together by the football betting analysts at BonusCodeBets.co.uk – and they make for interesting reading...
1. Roberto Martinez - 28/1
Current Belgium boss and former manager of Everton and Wigan Athletic. Would prove a bit of a left-field choice, given he was in the running for the job when Steve Bruce was handed it. | Getty Images Photo: DANIEL MIHAILESCU
2. Julian Nagelsmann - 25/1
The revolutionary young German is blazing a trail over in the Bundesliga at RB Leipzig. United are a bigger club, but the need to rebuild is so much greater with the German outfit in the Champions League. | Getty Images Photo: ODD ANDERSEN
3. Eddie Howe - 20/1
Bournemouth boss Howe has done wonders down on the south coast but his luck may well be about to run out with the Cherries in the Premier League bottom three. | Getty Images Photo: John Powell
4. Steven Gerrard - 18/1
Considered in the summer, Gerrard may well be looked at again with his Rangers future looking uncertain. | Getty Images Photo: Mark Runnacles