The Newcastle United boss and Burnley’s Sean Dyche are the early front runners to succeed Claude Puel at Leicester City.
Bookmaker Paddy Power has opened a market on Leicester City’s next manager and made Newcastle United’s Rafa Benitez the early favourite, ahead of Burnley’s Sean Dyche.
Speculation is growing that Leicester could part company with incumbent boss Claude Puel this summer, after a sudden loss of form.
The Foxes’s crushing defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday was their third loss in four Premier League matches – the other two coming against Newcastle and Burnley – a run that has seen them collect only a single point and lose touch with the European places.
According to the Daily Mail, Leicester are already eyeing the former Watford manager, Marco Silva, as Puel’s successor, barely six months since they appointed the Frenchman.
But Silva is only 20/1 with Paddy Power at present, behind Benitez (6/1), Dyche (7/1), Martin O’Neill (9/1), Manuel Pellegrini (10/1), Brendan Rodgers (12/1) and Chris Coleman (14/1).
Could Leicester tempt Benitez from Newcastle United or Dyche from Burnley this summer?
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