Next Chelsea Manager Odds – Who Will Replace Graham Potter?
Check out our next Chelsea manager odds as Graham Potter’s short stint at Stamford Bridge has come to an abrupt end this weekend.
Following their 2-0 home defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday the Chelsea owners relieved Graham Potter of his duties less than seven months after spending a record £ 21.5 million to bring him to the club from Brighton. There have been reports that the players were “stunned” by the news and only heard of the sacking through the club’s statement via social media.
Why Did Chelsea Sack Graham Potter?
Potter’s tenure at The Bridge never got going as his side generally struggled to score goals, an issue with had been flagged about him during his time at Brighton. Ultimately from his appointment on the 8th of September – the 2nd of April he has a record of 12 wins, 8 draws and 11 defeats from his 31 matches.
His win ratio of only 38.7% was the worst the club has had under a coach since Guus Hiddink’s short tenure from December 2015-June 2016 when his win rate was 37%. Ultimately, given that reality combined with an unprecedented January spend of €611.49 million, Potter was always on borrowed time and was duly sacked. Here are the market leaders to replace Potter at The Bridge.
Next Chelsea Manager Odds
Julian Nagelsmann 4/9
The red-hot favourite for the Chelsea hot seat is the 35-year-old German who has already eight years of top-level coaching experience despite being younger than a man he could end up coaching in Thiago Silva who is 38.
He started at 1899 Hoffenheim coaching them from 2016-2019 bringing them from the brink of relegation to Champions League qualification. The German coach then spent two years at RB Leipzig from 2019-2021 where he reached a Champions League Semi-Final. Most recently he managed Bayern Munich from 2021-2023 where he won the Bundesliga 21/22 along with the DFL-Supercup: 2021 and 2022.
The former Bayern manager was recently relieved of his duties as the club despite knocking PSG out of the Champions League and laying 2nd in the Bundesliga as the club were “playing less successfully and less attractively with big fluctuations in performance”. It has since emerged that his decision to holiday after a defeat along with a bust-up with Mane were also factors in the decision.
Nevertheless, he is still regarded as one of the best managers around who is tactically flexible and wants his team to maintain possession, and implement a fast gegenpress, to immediately win possession back. At 1/3 it looks very likely that Nagelsmann will be the next Chelsea Coach.
Bruno Saltor 5/1
The former Brighton right-back of seven years, who has a mural dedicated to him, was announced as the interim head coach at Chelsea following the sacking of Graham Potter. Saltor’s positioning as interim coach puts him firmly among the favourite in the next Chelsea manager odds.
Bruno is a very inexperienced coach who started his coaching career as a senior player development coach at Brighton before departing for Chelsea alongside the former Blues manager in September 2022.
Now Bruno finds himself in charge of one of the Premier League’s most successful clubs after three and a half years of experience as a coach. An unknown quantity it’ll be interesting to see how sets up his side for his first task Tuesday evening versus a struggling Liverpool.
If I were to guess I’d expect maintenance of Potter’s 3-4-3 style. Saltor is currently 6/1 to land the job and trigger-happy Chelsea could do it with a win against Liverpool on Tuesday.
Brendan Rodgers 10/1
Another man who has recently lost his job, the Northern Irishman left Leicester City by mutual consent on the 2nd of April following a 2–1 defeat v relegation rivals Crystal Palace. Thus his four-year term at the club ended during which time he guided the club to 2x 5th place finishes, 1x FA Cup (the first in their history), 1x Community Shield and 1x European Semi-Final.
Rodgers is another who favours his side playing a flowing, attacking possession-based game so he would definitely fit the desired attacking philosophy of Chelsea owner Todd Boehly. It would be an interesting turn of events if Rodgers was considered for the Chelsea job having managed at the likes of Liverpool and Celtic.
A move for Rodgers to The Bridge would mark a return to the club where he started his coaching career. He joined the Chelsea Academy as their head youth coach in 2004 and spent two years as reserve manager from 2006-2008. Brendan Rodgers is 10/1 to get the Chelsea job.
Rúben Amorim 10/1
The current Sporting CP manager is another highly-rated young coach who at 38 years old has already been managing since 2018. Having started with Casa Pia he progressed managing Braga B and Braga before ultimately landing his current role in March 2020.
Since taking charge he would lead Sporting to their first league title in 19 years in the 20/21 season, he has also won Taça da Liga: 2020–21, and 2021–22 along with Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2021 in what has been a very successful period. Most recently he guided Sporting to victory over Premier League table toppers Arsenal that knocked them out of the Europa League Round of 16 on penalties.
His management style is very similar to the other market leaders, known for his communication skills and tactical flexibility his sides primarily adopt a 3-4-3 which focuses on intense pressing. Amorim is a coach with an interesting CV and profile who can be gotten at 10/1 for the Chelsea role.
Thomas Frank 12/1
An extremely interesting candidate for this role would be Brentford boss Thomas Frank who has been head coach of the club since taking over from Dean Smith in October 2018 after narrowly missing out on promotion following a playoff final defeat in his first full season in 19/20.
He went one better in 20/21 winning the final. Brentford has gone from strength to strength under Frank and after a respectable 13th place finish in their first EPL season, they’re currently 7th in the league only 7 points away from the Champions League places with 10 games to play.
Thomas Frank’s side generally plays a 4-3-3 with fast-pressing football and would be appropriate toward the Chelsea vision. However, like Potter, this could be seen as a similar level of appointment in terms of coaching pedigree and risk which makes Frank’s longer odds of 12/1 make sense.
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