Gary Neville has told Stadium Astro that he believes Tottenham Hotspur boss Jose Mourinho and Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti are both under big pressure over the upcoming season.
Mourinho and Ancelotti both came in at Tottenham and Everton midway through last season, but they now have had the summer to put alterations on their squad.
Spurs have already been busy, bringing in three new players to their first team.
Everton also look like doing business in the near future, with the likes of Allan, James Rodriguez and Abdoulaye Doucoure all set to sign up.
And Neville thinks that Tottenham and Everton will need to show improvements over the upcoming campaign, otherwise Mourinho and Ancelotti’s jobs could come under threat.
“I would say that Mourinho, Lampard or Solskjaer, if one of those three managers ended up in sixth or seventh place half way through the season they would come under big pressure,” Neville said, when asked which managers are most in danger.
“They would be the ones that do see pressure, I think Everton could too with Carlo Ancelotti.
“They have been underachievers for many years and they can’t keep doing that, they should be pushing for that top four.”
Mourinho did help to improve Tottenham last term, but he will need to answer some critics over his style of football.
Spurs, at times, looked well short of ideas in attack and it will be intriguing to see whether things will improve in that regard after a full pre-season.
Ancelotti, meanwhile, saw the limitations in Everton’s squad and has quickly set about making them stronger.
The Toffees were seriously weak in midfield over the previous campaign, but their recent recruitment drive should help them be much harder to beat in the coming months.
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