The Premier League is a cut-throat business for managers. One month has passed since Arsenal and Crystal Palace kicked off the new season and two managers have already bitten the dust.
Scott Parker was the first managerial casualty when his gloomy assessment of Bournemouth’s survival hopes was too close to the bone for the club’s board.
Thomas Tuchel soon followed after the new Chelsea owners decided it was “the right time to make this transition”. It’s the earliest date that two Premier League managers have been sacked since the 2008-09 season and, with talk of unrest surrounding Brendan Rodgers at Leicester and Steven Gerrard at Aston Villa, that trend shows no sign of abating.
If anything, the chaos only seems to have continued from last season. When Ole Gunnar Solskjær was shown the door at Old Trafford on 21 November, he became the sixth Premier League manager to leave his post last season – a new record in the English top flight.