{"id":5693,"date":"2024-12-16T19:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betwealthsuretips.com\/blog\/russell-martin-gary-oneil-does-sacking-a-premier-league-manager-help-you-avoid-relegation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:17:23","slug":"russell-martin-gary-oneil-does-sacking-a-premier-league-manager-help-you-avoid-relegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betwealthsuretips.com\/blog\/russell-martin-gary-oneil-does-sacking-a-premier-league-manager-help-you-avoid-relegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Martin & Gary O’Neil: Does Sacking A Premier League Manager Help You Avoid Relegation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gary O’Neil and Russell Martin were both sacked on the same day<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Emlyn Begley<\/p>\n

BBC Sport journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two of the clubs in the Premier League decided to roll the dice on Sunday by sacking their managers.<\/b><\/p>\n

Southampton, nine points adrift and bottom, axed Russell Martin – the manager who got them promoted last season.<\/p>\n

Wolves, five points off safety, sacked Gary O’Neil after a season and a half in charge.<\/p>\n

But does sacking a manager help to bring about survival when a team are in the relegation zone?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is there hope for Wolves?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Wolves and Southampton are the Premier League’s bottom two teams<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Not counting this season, there have been 91 times when a team have parted company with their manager while in the drop zone – and on 36 of those occasions they avoided relegation.<\/p>\n

That is a success rate of 40%, so we know the difficult decision can work.<\/p>\n

Of those 36 cases, five of the teams were exactly five points adrift when the manager left, like Wolves.<\/p>\n

Sam Allardyce kept up two of those five teams – Blackburn in 2008-09 and Sunderland in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

Tony Parkes, as a caretaker, saved Blackburn from such a perilous position in 1996-97, while Harry Redknapp saw Tottenham to safety in 2008-09.<\/p>\n

Tony Pulis helped Crystal Palace avoid the drop in 2013-14, although by the time he took over from caretaker Keith Millen they were only three points off safety.<\/p>\n

Only one of those five instances happened this late in a season, though – when Blackburn sacked Paul Ince on 16 December 2008 and hired Allardyce two days later.<\/p>\n

The other four changes with teams five points adrift all happened in October.<\/p>\n

One good omen for Wolves is that they were the second most recent team who changed managers while in the bottom three and stayed up.<\/p>\n

That was when Julen Lopetegui replaced Bruno Lage – via Steve Davis’ caretaker spell – just before the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is there any hope for Southampton?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Um…<\/p>\n

No team have ever had a change of manager when nine points adrift (or anything more than five points) and stayed up.<\/p>\n

In fact, only two teams have ever stayed up after being nine points or more from safety at any stage of the season.<\/p>\n

They are Blackburn in 1996-97 – a week or so after Parkes replaced Ray Harford – and West Ham in 2006-07.<\/p>\n

The Hammers, who replaced Alan Pardew with Alan Curbishley earlier that season, were 10 points adrift with nine games to go – but they won seven of those to stay up.<\/p>\n

Changing manager while in the drop zone has worked for Southampton three times – when Ian Branfoot left in 1993-94, Stuart Gray left in 2001-02 and Mark Hughes exited in 2018-19.<\/p>\n

But the tactic failed for them twice in 2022-23 when first Ralph Hasenhuttl in November and then Nathan Jones in February left.<\/p>\n

But in none of those instances were they in this big of a mess.<\/p>\n

We also now know Southampton will be bottom of the table at Christmas – with only four previous teams having survived from that position in Premier League history.<\/p>\n

West Bromwich Albion (2004-05), Sunderland (2013-14), Leicester (2014-15) and Wolves (2022-23) are the four sides to manage it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Have recent changes worked?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Looking more recently – in the five seasons previous to this campaign, 16 teams parted company with their manager while in the relegation zone. Only five of them stayed up.<\/p>\n

Last season the same three teams spent most of the season in the bottom three – Burnley, Luton and Sheffield United.<\/p>\n

The Blades changed manager but the other two did not – and they all went down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Relegation-zone managerial changes in the previous five seasons<\/h2>\n
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Team<\/th>\nManager replaced<\/th>\nSeason<\/th>\nDid the team stay up?<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Watford<\/td>\nJavier Gracia<\/td>\n2019-20<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Watford<\/td>\nQuique Sanchez Flores<\/td>\n2019-20<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Everton<\/td>\nMarco Silva<\/td>\n2019-20<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
West Brom<\/td>\nSlaven Bilic<\/td>\n2020-21<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheff Utd<\/td>\nChris Wilder<\/td>\n2020-21<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newcastle<\/td>\nSteve Bruce<\/td>\n2021-22<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norwich<\/td>\nDaniel Farke<\/td>\n2021-22<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Watford<\/td>\nClaudio Ranieri<\/td>\n2021-22<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burnley<\/td>\nSean Dyche<\/td>\n2021-22<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bournemouth<\/td>\nScott Parker<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wolves<\/td>\nBruno Lage<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southampton<\/td>\nRalph Hasenhuttl<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Everton<\/td>\nFrank Lampard<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southampton<\/td>\nNathan Jones<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leicester<\/td>\nBrendan Rodgers<\/td>\n2022-23<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheff Utd<\/td>\nPaul Heckingbottom<\/td>\n2023-24<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Opta<\/p>\n

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