{"id":2355,"date":"2017-09-22T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T09:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2017-10-10T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:55:46","slug":"koeman-new-leader-sack-race-pressure-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/koeman-new-leader-sack-race-pressure-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Koeman new leader in sack race as pressure mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmakers have moved quickly to slash the odds on Everton manager Ronald Koeman being the next Premier League manager to lose his job.<\/p>\n<p>Frank de Boer &#8216;won&#8217; the sack race as he was first man out of the exit door at a top-flight club, just four games into the season.<\/p>\n<p>After de Boer, West Ham&#8217;s Slaven Bilic was the favourite, but suddenly Koeman is now the clear favourite after a poor start to the new season, which sees them in the bottom three and with just one win from their opening five games.<\/p>\n<p>With reports of pressure growing on Koeman, his odds are now just 15\/8 to be next to depart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change in this market has happened so quickly, &#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was more than 10\/1 not long ago, and wasn&#8217;t really in the thinking to be at the top of this market but pressure is clearly mounting on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Punters have reacted and the Bookmakers have quickly moved him, again and again &#8211; which now sees him at 15\/8 across the board &#8211; defeat to Bournemouth this weekend, and 15\/8 might not be too bad a price as it certainly won&#8217;t be that if they do lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next Premier League manager to go odds:<br \/>\nRonald Koeman 15\/8 (Ladbrokes)<br \/>\nSlaven Bilic 3\/1 (BetVictor)<br \/>\nEddie Howe 10\/1 (Coral)<br \/>\nRafa Benitez 10\/1 (WilliamHill)<br \/>\nMauricio Pellegrino 12\/1 (Betway)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmakers have moved quickly to slash the odds on Everton manager Ronald Koeman being the next Premier League manager to lose his job. Frank de Boer &#8216;won&#8217; the sack race as he was first man out of the exit door at a top-flight club, just four games into the season. After de Boer, West Ham&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2365,115,2361,1996,2459,321,2370,2232,442,737,611,2369,2460,1716,2462,2461,762,2363,2364],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}