Everton and Leicester City are both looking for new managers, and Ian Wright is surprised that Brighton and Hove Albion boss Chris Hughton is being overlooked.
The Toffees parted company with Ronald Koeman this week, while Leicester let Craig Shakespeare go after their own underwhelming start to the Premier League season.
While it is not clear whether Hughton is being considered for either job, a look at the betting markets suggests that Brighton should not expect any approaches anytime soon – with SkyBet listing him at 66/1 for the Foxes job, and not even listing him in the market for the Everton job.
And Wright insisted that given the job that he has done at the Amex Stadium with the Seagulls, it is baffling that Everton and Leicester do not appear to be looking at him at this current moment.
“With the resources that he’s had to deal with, he’s always done brilliantly well with them, and you just feel like, with a job like Everton or even Leicester, with the resources that they’ve both got, why does his name never get mentioned? It just seems a little bit strange to me. It’s almost baffling.”
As Wright suggests, Hughton has done a very good job wherever he has been. He has previously guided both Newcastle and Brighton to promotion to the Premier League, and led Birmingham to the play-offs in the second tier in a season when they also had a Europa League group-stage campaign to contend with.
And with Brighton making a solid start to their first Premier League season, it is undoubtedly a bizarre decision for both clubs to seemingly overlook the 58-year-old.
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