Prem sack race ends as Keegan quits
The market for the Premiership sack race is barely two weeks old, but bookies have already suspended the market for the next Premiership manager to lose their job as rumours circulate that Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has quit the North-east club in a row with owner Mike Ashley over a lack of transfer funds, and decision to sell key players.
888sport, Bet365 and Blue Square were offering odds of up to 8/1 as recent as this morning on Keegan becoming the first managerial casualty of the Premiership season, but as soon as the story broke that Keegan had quit (there was also one version that he had been sacked), all bookies moved swiftly to remove the option to bet on the next premiership manager to vacate the gaffer’s chair.
The row between Keegan and Ashley appears to stem from the sale of James Milner to Aston Villa for £12m. Keegan was adamant that Milner would not be leaving Newcastle, and was incensed that the board would sell him against their manager’s wishes. The board also accepted a bid for Joey Barton on transfer deadline day yesterday, but Keegan persuaded him to stay.
What next for Keegan? Has he got another job in him? would he want (or need) the pressure? Or will he do one last hurrah as Doncaster boss?
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Betdaq have Denis Wise as the 2/1 favourite to become the next Newcastle manager, whilst the odds on Alan Shearer becoming Newcastle manager are currently 7/2. Didier Deschamps is at 5/1, Gus Poyet is 6/1, whilst David Moyes at 10/1 looks interesting.
Look out in the next few ays as the dust settles, and the rest of the bookies open their markets.