The Premier League can be a cruel mistress for head coaches. The simple fact of the matter is that managing in England’s top-flight is one of the most stressful jobs around, even if it does come with the handsome benefits of monster wages and working with the world’s best players.
After all, the inescapable reality of Premier League managers is that more than a quarter of the cohort that starts each season won’t be in the same technical area when the next campaign rolls around.
The 2021/22 campaign alone saw Xisco Munoz, Steve Bruce, Nuno Espirito Santo, Daniel Farke, Dean Smith, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Rafael Benitez, Claudio Ranieri, Marcelo Bielsa and Sean Dyche all given the boot.
By Transfermarkt’s calculations, the Premier League average since its 1992 inception comes in at an eye-watering eight managerial changes per season during the campaign itself.