Conte to Man Utd, Simeone to Arsenal, Frank to Fulham: Every Premier League club’s next manager revealed

2026-10-15 · Football365

We are inexplicably still waiting for the first managerial casualty of the Premier League season, so we’re passing the time guessing what’s next.

Despite at least one full-blooded El Sackico, a load of teams doing really badly and a whole bunch of new managers who don’t really appear to be up to it, we still await the first managerial casualty of the new Premier League season.

Guys, what’s going on? Even Mr Marinakis has been caught napping, letting Oliver Glasner off with a one-win-in-six start that surely should have seen him sacked at least twice by now.

But it does mean we’ve had a bit more time than might have been expected to fully consider who the next manager in line at each of the 20 Premier League clubs currently is.

And the answer is that it’s these lads.

Who will be Arsenal’s next manager?

It really has been a long old time since Arsenal were on the lookout for a new manager. Arteta is now the longest-serving current manager not just in the Premier League but across the top four divisions of English football. And he’s well up the list for Europe.

So who could possibly replace him? That’s one question, but the other factor we have to consider here is when might that happen. Because clearly that’s going to heavily impact the kind of names.

If he sees out the new contract he signed this season he’ll emulate his mentor Pep Guardiola do a decade in a single job. Who knows who might be in contention by then.

What is clear is that Arsenal love a dynasty. In modern management terms, Arteta’s near-seven-year reign is already an eternity, and it comes shortly after Arsene Wenger threatened to simply squat in the job for ever and ever. They’ve now only had three permanent managers in the last 30 years. That’s ludicrous behaviour.

Even the doomed-to-failure Emery, drummed out of the club in double-quick time, lasted a year and a half. That’d be considered a good run at certain other clubs; naming no names, but Chelsea and Tottenham are two of them.

So, what then do we know of Arsenal? They like a manager who stays with one club for a very long time, and also that it turns out they were only pretending to enjoy Wenger’s pretty-pretty pastaball and instead prefer to be massive great shthousing bastards.

We’re all for that personally, and are very excited to welcome to the Premier League at last Mr Diego Simeone, the man who ticks both those boxes a thousand times over.

Who will be Aston Villa’s next manager?

Whenever it happens, and despite all these pesky Utter Woke Nonsense rules that mean Aston Villa can’t just cheat like others before them, it does seem safe to assume Unai Emery will leave Aston Villa a far more enticing prospect than the forlorn, Steven Gerrarded relegation battlers he inherited back in 2022.

Since then there has been European adventure, Champions League campaigns (plural), and even a real-life proper trophy for a team that did sit rather awkwardly after watching Newcastle and Spurs collect pots in 2025.

Fair to say neither of those two foolish clubs have particularly kicked on for the long overdue experience, but Villa will hope they can keep Emery in place at least for a little while longer yet to help keep this good thing going.

Given that other recent Villa managers have included Gerrard, Tim Sherwood, Steve Bruce and Roberto Di Matteo, you’d imagine that, when the time does eventually come, Villa’s plan will be to find an Emery-like replacement rather than the more traditional managerial change route of an alarming lurch in direction.

So we’re looking for a manager hugely respected outside this relentlessly inward-looking island for his many good works on the continent but currently deemed an irredeemable clown on these shores due to one failure with a daft Big Six club. That’ll be Ruben Amorim, then.

Who will be Bournemouth’s next manager?

Andoni Iraola came from La Liga. Marco Rose came from the Bundesliga. Why not an up-and-coming manager who’s already done a little bit of both?

Step forward, Martin Demichelis. Sure, Mallorca were relegated on his watch last season but we takes no meaningful share of the blame having picked up 18 points from his 12 games in charge to reach 42 points in total only for that still to be insufficient.

And he’s made a tidy enough start at Rose’s old RB Leipzig stomping ground after taking over from Ole Werner.

Who will be Brentford’s next manager?

With some of these were going to go into great detail and do deep-dive research and even, lord help us, sometimes do something approaching some actual work. Some we’ll do banter that’s of interest and amusement only to ourselves.

And with some, we must accept it’s best for multiple reasons, our own sanity among them, to just accept the obvious low-hanging fruit on offer.

Brentford’s next manager, when some desperately flagging Big Six fool comes knocking for Keith Andrews, will of course be current set-piece coach Stephen Rice. Nothing else needs to be said.

Who will be Brighton’s next manager?

Carlos Cuesta is the youngest manager across Europe’s top five leagues having taken the Parma job at 29. He is still only 31.

That should be all the information you need, frankly, but having five years on Mikel Arteta’s coaching staff at Arsenal doesn’t do any harm.

Fabian Hurzeler has done a fine job at Brighton, but time waits for no man. He’s 33 now, for crying out loud. Yesterday’s news. Practically a timelord. Time to move on. Enjoy your retirement. Spend time with the grandkids. Just promise us you definitely won’t take the Spurs or Man United jobs (he will totally take the Spurs or Man United job).

Who will be Chelsea’s next manager?

In the absence of a better answer, we’ll just go for the easy one. Current Strasbourg manager Hugo Oliveira. Any fears about the Portuguese’s understanding of Our League are easily batted away. You don’t spend as much time as he did as Marco Silva’s goalkeeping coach at Hull, Watford, Everton and Fulham without developing a keen understanding of the Barclays.

Be nice as well to have another Portuguese manager at Chelsea. Just feels right. And it also fits your standard ‘over-reaction to the previous appointment’ style with Rosenior-Alonso-Oliveira a neat Company Man-Superstar-Company Man series of appointments.

Who will be Coventry’s next manager?

We’d really like it to be Steven Gerrard for reasons of narrative. And, because this is our feature and we can do what we want, it therefore is.

Who will be Crystal Palace’s next manager?

We’re not having that ridiculous 3-1 victory over Nottingham Forest as convincing evidence of anything at all. Palace’s defence looked as shonky as ever during a 40-minute battering that football’s top boffins could spend several lifetimes studying without ever coming up with a satisfactory answer as to how it yielded but a single goal. An acceptable answer beyond “Liam Delap is a big guileless lump” anyway.

We don’t think they’ve Turned A Corner, we still Fear For Them, and we think they’re in very real relegation trouble this season.

With Gary O’Neil currently unavailable, Palace will have to look to the next best thing to fight that fire. And the next best thing based on recent Premier League evidence, whether you like it or not, is Vitor Pereira. He got Wolves an extra year of Premier League football, which was sufficiently impressive that we need not dwell on what he and they did with that extra year. He kept Nottingham Forest up with plenty to spare last season before getting Marinakised in the summer. He’ll do the same for Palace, we’re sure of it.

Who will be Everton’s next manager?

History tells us that the answer here is already known. It’s Roberto Martinez some time in 2036 after a trophyless but mechanically impressive decade of Moyesball stability for the Toffees.

And who are we to argue with history? Nobody, that’s who, which is just as well, because otherwise we’d have to note that history at this point would also be handing David Moyes the Manchester United job and we’re really not sure about that at all to be honest.

Who will be Fulham’s next manager?

We’ll let you in on a little secret. We don’t actually believe a lot of these answers ourselves. For some of these we’re messing about a bit. I know, it’s hard to take in. We don’t actually, for instance, think Roberto Martinez is going to be the next Everton manager. We’re not sure anybody actually wants that.

But for some of them, there is a sensible answer so obvious, so clearly staring us in the face to the extent that you can already far too easily picture him in a Fulham coat looking vaguely puzzled on the touchline while sipping from his favourite Arsenal cup.

It’s just obviously Thomas Frank, isn’t it? Match of the Day’s loss will be Fulham’s, well, loss.

Not only is it all too easy to conjure in the mind’s eye an image of Thomas Frank as Fulham manager, it’s actually far easier than conjuring an image of Alvaro Arbeloa as Fulham manager, and he actually is the Fulham manager.

But not for long. So obvious is this one that we’ll throw in some extra detail for free, like when it will happen, and what will happen next.

It will be in the November international break, obviously. He will win only two of his 10 Premier League games in charge before being sacked. Those wins will both, thanks to a mischievous fixture list that places the games barely a month apart either side of the new year, be against Spurs.

Who will be Hull City’s next manager?

Look, when you hit upon a winning formula you don’t deviate from it. For Hull, that means they need to find themselves another Eastern European manager plucked from the Turkish Super Lig.

Right now, that means Besnik Hasi who currently has his Amedspor right in amongst it with Turkish football’s traditional powerhouses, sitting third in the league a point or two behind Galatasaray and Besiktas and ahead of Fenerbahce.

Who will be Ipswich Town’s next manager?

Gary O’Neil is clearly going to keep them up this season, but at that point Gary O’Neil’s work will be done. Ipswich can’t expect to hold on to him when there will be another team in need of his emergency Premier League Survival talents.

He’s obviously a PFM, but he’s so much more than that. He’s the Last of the Firefighters. He’s like one of those youngsters they have on the TikToks and such who’ve gone into stonemasonry or some such thing. O’Neil is single-handedly keeping the flame burning for a dying art, a lost skill.

So we can say with absolute certainty that by the time next season rolls around, he will have left Portman Road. He will rest awhile and then he will watch and he will wait and he will speak well, I thought, on Monday Night Football until the next team comes along that requires his particular set of skills.

But where does that leave Ipswich? They have a fascinating managerial history, really. They didn’t even have a manager until 1936, when Irishman Mick O’Brien took the job as the club left its amateur (literally and figuratively) selection-by-committee days behind.

And the startling thing about Ipswich is that this remains the most exotic managerial appointment they’ve ever had. They’ve matched it with a Roy Keane, but never have they ventured further afield than that. Every other Ipswich manager has been from one part of the United Kingdom or other.

And two of the English managers they’ve had are among the most venerated English managers of all time. You can’t grumble at a managerial history that contains two of the three English knights of the realm to ever lead the England men’s side to the final four of a World Cup, can you?

But that gives us our answer, doesn’t it? Why stop at Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson? Why not add Sir Gareth Southgate to the collection? We can think of not one single reason, unless you count all that stuff where he says he probably won’t go back to day-to-day football management.

Who will be Leeds United’s next manager?

We’ve had it for a while now, and it’s a feeling that only grows stronger. It might just be a side-effect of too much cheese, but out gut is telling us that at some point in the not-too-distant future Leeds will, emboldened by their clear and undeniable progress but also while dangerously high on the smell of their own farts, try and do something unbelievably flash and big-clubbish in a bid to Kick On To The Next Level.

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