FrankBet Job Odds!

With Season 7’s end coming upon the horizon it appears that as ever the jobs market will jump into force with sackings left right and centre, some managers moving on – others moving up and some, having failed at the top, moving down… BUT who will end up where is anyone’s guess – one thing is for certain though it is likely to yield a flurry of transfer market activity as all managers look to make their new squads there very own and put their own stamp!

A few jobs stand out as “must have’s” – Benfica and Liverpool:

Benfica:

With Parfitt struggling to muster anything more than surviving relegation on the final day over the past 3 seasons – the curse of Nuno is set to look for its next victim to see who can next struggle to take Benfica to the top of the world, apparently the place they should be.

So how many applicants are there – well 11 applicants have completed the process and some wish to remain “secretive” but here is FrankBet’s odds on a few of them.

Mr “Whats Occurin Mark Stewart” – 3/1 no one can deny what he has achieved at Berlin with successive promotions and potentially a third would be remarkable. Yet his loyalty to Berlin and the lack of trams in the Portuguese capital could possibly count against him.

Rahul – 6/1 – considered by some to be an outsider for the Benfica job – yet the managers talents should not be doubted – had success with numerous Top100 clubs including Aston Villa, Man Utd, Dnipro and Sampdoria – it is thought though that Mr Benfica Life Preisdent and God Nuno if he has any input would question the mans lack of Portuguese and knowledge of Benfica youngsters.

Rob Ryan – 8/1 – a very good pedigree – if Top100 managers were thoroughbred horses then Rob Ryan would be in the running for the national every year – arguably overachieved consistently at Napoli and would be a great shout if the committee choose to give him the job! 

Liverpool:

With Wayne Bullough proving to be a failure at Liverpool and apparently being forced to announce his departure earlier than anticipated as the search for a new man enters  critical stage here is a low down of some of candidates who have presented themselves for the Liverpool job so far.

Garry Crawford – 4/1 – Mr PSV as he has become known is almost as Scouse as Steve Mclaren was Dutch so it appears an obvious choice – a manager who toiled for a while at many SM T100 clubs who has finally found his home and turned an average PSV side into challengers for promotion – he would be a safe choice for Pool.  

Jason Hines – 5/1 – A lifelong Liverpool fan who is freezing his balls off out in Moscow and is said to be sick of the cold shoulder from Putin and the lack of state investment and intervention in helping him to take Spartak back to the promised land – but a good steady season this year could convince the committee to consider his talents

Andrew Kelly – 6/1 – Another lifelong Liverpool fan – done a fab job at Villarreal who have been punching above their weight for the entirety of the history of SM. 

Like I said this is a snapshot of the applicants for both jobs – the talent is immense and applicantons will not be accepted after game 33.

Some managerial appointments for Season 8 can be confirmed tonight:

Werder Bremen: Wayne Bullough has official been unveiled at a Bremen Beer Hall alongside his family when he declared that having previously been at Sunderland and Liverpool he felt living abroad for the first time would be a daunting experience for a man from Accrington but he’d give it his best go and admitted he’d already learnt how to order a sausage and beer in German already!

Also Mr Craig Braidwood – the man behind https://ec7046blog.wordpress.com/ will be going to Sampdoria where he hopes to challenge Mr Frank Hirst for being the top manager in Genoa!