This lot will be waiting by their phones for panicking chairman to dial their digits soon. Thomas Tuchel’s receiver could well be red hot.
Here’s how we’ve ranked the best managers currently out of work…
10) Andre Villas-Boas
AVB is without a job, that much we know. Whether or not he wants to work again is rather less clear.
Villas-Boas has never hidden his intention to retire early. “Fifteen years, that’s all,” he said while bossing Chelsea in 2011. Since he’s been managing since 2009, that leaves him only a couple of years, even if he has taken a few breaks along the way, diverting himself to personal ambitions like the Dakar Rally.
His last position was at Marseille, a role he walked away from in disgust over their transfer policy – a recurring theme, it would seem. Like many others before and since, he flopped at Chelsea but he had a 55% win ratio at Spurs, which is marginally better than Mauricio Pochettino and bettered only by Antonio Conte in the post-war era.
9) Jorge Sampaoli
The Chilean jumped the Marseille ship during the summer while the French side were taking too long to replace some of the players who finished as the best of the rest behind PSG in Ligue 1.
It was a tough gig. In Sampaoli’s words: “I arrived in Marseille when the fans had set fire to the training centre. I took on a team that was very badly beaten. We qualified for the Champions League by playing a certain way and for the next stage we needed more. The president said we couldn’t go too fast in the transfer market and that didn’t suit me.”
Another disciple of Marcelo Bielsa, Sampaoli’s stock is high again after it tanked in the wake of Argentina’s failure at the 2018 World Cup. He earned the job of managing Lionel Messi – something he struggled with – by succeeding with Chile. His season-and-a-bit reign with Marseille was the longest of five managerial positions he’s held since. Sampaoli has been linked with a return to Sevilla while Brighton were also said to have sounded him out about managing in the Premier League.
8) Rafael Benitez
Hindsight is 20/20 but Rafa at Everton never seemed a good fit. Should he be applauded for taking a chance, or judged for not seeing the problems that lay ahead?
Either way, Benitez is on the market and, having given an interview to Sky Sports this week, it seems he wants to make himself visible to any chairman looking for a steady hand.
Liverpool and Newcastle fans will certainly vouch for…
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