Southampton boss Nathan Jones now favourite to get the sack as David Moyes drifts in market
- Scott Allen
- 6 February 2023
Southampton manager is now odds-on favourite to be the next Premier League manager to get the chop after the 3-0 defeat to Brentford, but West Ham boss David Moyes has clawed his way out of trouble.
The pressure is increasing on Jones off the back of another lacklustre defeat when his bottom-of-the-table side were beaten away at Brentford. The patience of Saints fans is starting to wear thin, with the vocal travelling support venting their ire after the defeat.
Bookies now have Jones pegged at 1/2 to be the next Premier League manager to lose his job, when he had been as high as 14/1 before the weekend.
After the defeat he claimed he had "compromised his principles" since joining Southampton from Luton, and that from now on he would "live or die by my own philosophy".
"I've compromised," he said. "I've compromised certain principles because of, one; personnel, but, two; the way people want to play and so on, because of fans and so on,
"I've compromised on a few little things, but no more because I've been very successful. Now I will live and die by my own philosophy.
"I've gone away from what brought me to this football club and I'm not going to do it again."
Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil continues to lurk at the wrong end of the market, he's now between 4/1 and 12/1 depending on which bookie you favour.
But the big market mover is West Ham manager David Moyes, who until last week was permanently camped as the favourite to get the bullet.
The encouraging 1-1 away draw at Newcastle has done a great deal to propel Moyes away from trouble, and he's now as high as 20/1 to go next with some bookmakers.
Even Chelsea boss Graham Potter is further up the market than Moyes at 16/1, which is an incredible turnaround given the sticky situation the West Ham boss was in before the victory over Everton.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is the biggest market mover among the rest of the Premier League managers, and now sits at 20/1 after the humbling by Wolves.
