Huddersfield Town parted ways with David Wagner on Monday with the Terriers bottom of the Premier League table.
Where do Huddersfield Town go from here?
The Terriers are eight points adrift of safety, nailed to the bottom of the Premier League, and they are now without a manager, too.
David Wagner bid farewell on Monday evening, a year-and-a-half after leading Huddersfield to the top flight and making the fans’ wildest dreams come true.
And it seems this really was ‘mutual consent’. Chairman Dean Hoyle, speaking to the BBC, said Wagner’s departure was a joint decision, with the popular German making it clear that arguably the toughest job in the division left him exhausted.
But who will replace Wagner at the John Smith’s Stadium? It certainly won’t be Sam Allardyce.
Speaking to the Alan Brazil Sport’s Breakfast on talkSPORT (15, January, 8.30am), the 63-year-old has ruled out the prospect of taking over at Huddersfield and attempting to repeat the great escapes of his spells at Sunderland and Crystal Palace.
“I like Huddersfield Town, I had a really good time there years ago with Mike Buxton,” said Allardyce, who played for the Terriers in the 1984/85 season.
“It is a very difficult job indeed. For me, and Huddersfield fans won’t want to hear this, it’s got to be planning for what is going to look like relegation and getting back into the Premier League the next season.
“At this stage in my life if they made an approach I’d chat with them but it’s highly unlikely.”
So Allardyce, the Premier League’s grizzled firefighter, looks to be out of the running already.
Other experienced coaches like David Moyes, Alan Pardew and Carlos Carvalhal are available but it remains to be seen whether Hoyle and co take a chance on another left-field appointment.
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