There haven’t been any Premier League managers sacked this season, so far.
As you can see from the list below, by this time last year three had already been sacked.
The trio of Premier League managers who had lost their jobs by 20 October 2025 were Graham Potter, Nuno and Ange Postecoglou.
Former Brighton boss Potter sacked by West Ham, whilst incredibly, the opening two months of the 2025/26 season saw Nottingham Forest sack both of the other two!
To add a further level of disbelief, seven of the Premier League managers to be sacked during the 2025/26 season exited from only three clubs.
In total, eleven Premier League managers were sacked during last season (with their replacements in brackets):
9 September 2025 – Nuno leaves Forest (Ange Postecoglou)
27 September 2025 – Graham Potter leaves West Ham (Nuno)
18 October 2025 – Ange Postecoglou leaves Forest (Sean Dyche)
2 November 2025 – Vitor Pereira leaves Wolves (Rob Edwards)
1 January 2026 – Enzo Maresca leaves Chelsea (Liam Rosenior)
5 January 2026 – Ruben Amorim leaves Man U (Michael Carrick)
11 February 2026 – Thomas Frank leaves Spurs (Igor Tudor)
12 February 2026 – Sean Dyche leaves Forest (Vitor Pereira)
29 March 2026 – Igor Tudor leaves Spurs (Roberto de Zerbi)
22 April 2026 – Liam Rosenior leaves Chelsea (Caretaker boss for rest of season)
30 April 2026 – Scott Parker leaves Burnley (Caretaker boss for rest of season)
Matthias Jaissle is one of a number of current Premier League managers to have the finger pointed at, as the ones who could potentially be replaced.
I think that when you look at what happened last season in particular, the phrase ‘Be careful what you wish for’ may well spring to mind.
No manager is untouchable, no manager has a job for life, but the fact is that when you sack a manager they need to be replaced.
When Premier League managers do leave, the choice is then to replace them with somebody who has already managed (and usually failed, often multiple times) in the English top tier before, or someone who is new to the Premier League as a team boss.
When you change a manager during a season this naturally limits you. Either somebody who is out of work, or anew manager who is willing to leave his current club mid-season and that club accepting that they leave. The pool of potential new managers is far greater during the summer because clubs are far more accepting of their current boss moving on, as they then have time and the chance to select from a bigger pool of possibilities themselves.
Clubs like Spurs, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest became laughing stocks last season as they descended into chaos with multiple sackings.
Of the clubs that shed their managers during the 2025/26 season, I think only Manchester United could be said to have seriously benefited. Though even that was only a short-term new manager bounce that lasted a little longer than the usual short-term new manager bounce, as Michael Carrick is clearly not up to the job at Man U.
I think for sure it is easier to sack a manager than it is to get the right replacement.
There is no absolute right or wrong because none of us has a crystal ball to foretell the future, but for Newcastle United fans and those fanbases who might be wondering if change is needed very soon, would you be putting your faith in a Potter, Postecoglou, Pereira, Parker (or another Premier League failure whose surname doesn’t start with P), or somebody who has never previously managed in the English top tier? Another Matthias Jaissle?