Next Chelsea Manager Odds

Chelsea are on the lookout for a new manager following the shock departure of Mauricio Pochettino.

The Argentinian led Chelsea to a sixth-place finish in the 2023/24 season and also finished as runner-up in the League Cup final despite the Stamford Bridge club’s bewildering transfer strategy under Todd Boehly and BlueCo. Pochettino's exit means that comes the start of the 2024/25 season, the Blues will have had six different coaches take charge of matches since the summer of 2022.

Pochettino managed Chelsea 51 times, winning 26 matches while drawing 11, equating to a win percentage of 51%.

Kieran McKenna is coming in as a surprise favourite to become Chelsea’s next permanent manager following his recent successes with Ipswich Town.

The 37-year-old joined Manchester United as a coach back in 2016 as the manager of their Under 18s, before being promoted to assistant manager under Jose Mourinho at the start of the 2018/19 season.

McKenna left United in December 2021 following the dismissal of Solskjaer and has been manager of Ipswich Town ever since, leading the Tractor Boys to promotion from League One in 2022/23 in his first full campaign in charge, since then, Ipswich have excelled and even earned back-to-back promotions via a second-place finish in the Championship this campaign with 96 points from 46 matches while scoring 92 times.

Roberto De Zerbi is second favourite to become Chelsea’s next manager following his departure from Brighton.

Chelsea are known to be big admirers of De Zerbi, as well as the fact that they have recruited several members of staff from the Seagulls. According to reports in Italy, an unnamed Premier League club had triggered the Italian’s release clause, meaning that he wouldn’t serve gardening leave.

In 89 games with Brighton, the Italian has won 38, drawn 22 and lost 29, giving him an impressive 42.7% win rate. Joining in September 2022, he led them to a sixth-place finish and a spot in the Europa League, securing European football for the first time in the club’s history. They finished the 2023/24 season in 11th-place.

Before joining Brighton, the Italian had notably been manager of the likes of Shakhtar Donetsk and Sassuolo. During his time in charge of Shakhtar, De Zerbi’s side were top of the table but, he left due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while at Sassuolo, he oversaw 120 matches between July 2018 and May 2021 and achieved two eight-placed finishes.

Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca is a shock candidate for the job at Chelsea.

The 44-year-old has only ever had two senior managerial roles, with his first one being a huge disappointment, as he was sacked by Parma after winning just four of his 14 matches in charge during their 2021/22 Serie B campaign.

However, Maresca's stock is high after winning the Championship title in 2023/24 with Leicester City as his side earned 97 points from 46 league matches. The ex-Sevilla midfielder has a 67.92% win percentage having won 36 and drawn four of his 53 games since moving to the King Power Stadium.

Thomas Frank is a coach that has had his name linked with several high-profile managerial vacancies.

Brentford are well-known to have a progressive pressing style of play with many variants to their style, something which could perhaps be popular at Chelsea, especially with Frank having a good reputation for developing youngsters too, such as Said Benrahma, Bryan Mbeumo, Ivan Toney and more.

Frank joined Brentford all the way back in December 2016 as an assistant manager before stepping up as manager in October 2018 and has overseen 258 games in the process, leading the Bees to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in 2021 and memorably led his side to a 9th-place finish in the top-flight during the 2022/23 campaign.

In the 2023/24 season, Frank oversaw Brentford’s 16th-place finish in the Premier League which was a solid performance considering lengthy absences for key players such as Ivan Toney and Bryan Mbeumo.

Sporting Lisbon coach Ruben Amorim is a name that tends to be linked to a lot of high-profile managerial roles due to his impressive achievements at José Alvalade Stadium.

It was recently revealed that Amorim had held talks with West Ham United, while the Portuguese coach was heavily linked to Liverpool’s managerial vacancy once it was known that Xabi Alonso was not going to return to Anfield following the announcement of Jurgen Klopp’s departure.

During his time at Sporting, Amorim has achieved five trophies, memorably ending the club’s first Primeira Liga title in 19 years in the 2020/21 season before winning it again in 2023/24 while also winning the Supertaca Candido de Oliveira in 2021 on top of two Taca de Ligas in just over four years as manager of the club.

Between December 2019 and March 2020, Amorim managed Sporting Braga and managed to win the Taca da Liga before departing to Sporting.

Thomas Tuchel has emerged as a shock candidate to return to Stamford Bridge following his acrimonious exit from Bayern Munich.

During time at the Allianz Arena, Tuchel only managed to win the 2022/23 Bundesliga title following a turbulent 2023/24 campaign. Tuchel's managerial has been an impressive one though, having led Chelsea to the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup in 2020/21, while at PSG, the German coach won five major honours in two and a half years, while finishing as runner-up in the 2020 Champions League final.

Tuchel's senior managerial career started at Mainz, most notably leading the club to a fifth-place finish during the 2010/11 season, seeing them qualify for the third qualifying round of the 2011/12 Europa League. The 50-year-old was eventually acquired by Borussia Dortmund in June 2015, where he managed to win the DFB Pokal in 2016/17, notably beating Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt along the way.

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Sebastien Hoeness' Odds: 20/1

Cesc Fabregas' Odds: 22/1

Jose Mourinho's Odds: 28/1

Julian Nagelsmann's Odds: 33/1

Miguel Sanchez' Odds: 33/1

Ralf Rangnick's Odds: 33/1

Antonio Conte's Odds: 40/1

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Vincent Kompany's Odds: 40/1