Mark Hughes is under pressure at Southampton, but Dyche’s Burnley are just a point ahead of them in the Premier League table.
Southampton have been linked with a whole host of talented coaches this week alone with the South Coast club still reeling from a damaging 3-2 defeat at fellow Premier League strugglers Fulham at Craven Cottage.
Mark Hughes has won just one of 13 top flight games this season and, according to The Mirror (live blog, 11.38am) reports that the Welshman fears he is running out of time to save his job.
The report adds that Southampton could turn to Celtic’s trophy-hoarding manager Brendan Rodgers with Leonardo Jardim and Peter Bosz, the former coaches of Monaco and Borussia Dortmund respectively, also in the frame.
And Calciomecato claimed on Monday that The Saints have looked at Paulo Sousa too. The Portuguese gaffer is currently without a club having left Tianjin Quanjian in October.
But, for the first time, Southampton have been linked with an active Premier League manager. The Mirror adds that Burnley boss Sean Dyche is also a possibility, though the report points out that getting the 47-year-old could be easier said than done given that he is under contract at Turf Moor until 2022.
Dyche has been in charge of Burnley since 2012 and led The Clarets into the Europa League for the first time in their history last season. But the Lancashire club have been off the boil in the opening months of 2018/19, sitting just a point and a place above Southampton after Monday’s 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle United.
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