# The Premier League's manager sack race: Carrick and Sage lead the odds, Saturday's results change the picture By Kwame Asante (The Boardroom), Golden Era Published: 2026-11-01T00:16:00.506Z Updated: 2026-11-01T00:40:00.506Z Section: Clubs Event date: 31 October 2026 Tags: Premier League, Managers, Sack race, Michael Carrick, Pierre Sage URL: https://goldenera.si/news/premier-league-manager-sack-race/ > Where the Premier League manager sack race stands on 31 October: the latest odds from Bookies.com, Saturday's results and what outlets actually report. ![Michael Carrick watches play from the touchline beneath floodlights.](https://goldenera.si/media/articles/premier-league-manager-sack-race/hero-mvx2vaus-og.jpg) Michael Carrick and Pierre Sage were joint favourites at 5/4 to be the next Premier League manager to lose their job, in a price list Bookies.com published on Friday. That was before Saturday's results, so treat it as a snapshot. A betting market is a read on nerves, not a report. Nothing below says any club is planning a change, and where a manager's future is concerned this piece only repeats what named outlets report. ## The board Bookies.com lists one price per manager, each from a different bookmaker, so the numbers are not strictly like for like. - Michael Carrick, Manchester United: 5/4 (Parimatch) - Pierre Sage, Crystal Palace: 5/4 (BetVictor) - Alvaro Arbeloa, Fulham: 10/1 (Parimatch) - Regis Le Bris, Sunderland: 16/1 (Betano) - Unai Emery, Aston Villa: 16/1 (Parimatch) - Oliver Glasner, Nottingham Forest: 16/1 (TalkSport Bet) - Frank Lampard, Coventry: 20/1 (TalkSport Bet) - Matthias Jaissle, Newcastle: 33/1 (Betano) ## What happened on Saturday Manchester United lost 2-0 at Chelsea, their ninth game without a win. Sky Sports reports that Carrick said he expected to be in charge for Tuesday's Champions League game against Roma. The Evening Standard reports that Eddie Howe is the Betfair favourite to replace him if United do make a change, and says United decided this week to give Carrick a chance to turn things around. Nottingham Forest lost 2-0 at Brentford, with the Guardian pointing to strong underlying numbers but a table position of third-bottom, and describing owner Evangelos Marinakis as notoriously impatient. Coventry beat Sunderland 3-1 and climbed out of the bottom three, according to Sky Sports. That matters for two names on the board. Lampard's side moves up, and Le Bris's Sunderland remain bottom. The Guardian noted before the match that Le Bris's side had won only one league game, that he was arguably let down by recruitment, and that defender Nordi Mukiele had accused teammates of turning "arrogant". ## The rest of the list Palace's Sage has seven points from eight league games, according to Bookies.com, with a run of winnable fixtures in November described as make-or-break. A Carabao Cup win at Fulham on Wednesday bought him some breathing room. The same article says Fulham's Arbeloa took the job in the summer after a brief spell at Real Madrid, and had five points from seven games when it was written. Fulham have since improved to eight points from eight, according to the BBC table. Newcastle's Jaissle lost 3-1 at Everton in the Carabao Cup, a performance the Guardian called extremely tepid. Bookies.com gives no extra context on Villa's Emery, so there is nothing to report on his position. ## How to read it Short prices tend to follow a run of results and a visible mood, which is why Carrick and Sage head the list. Longer prices on Glasner, Le Bris and Emery show how little a price says about what an owner will do. The Guardian points at Marinakis's impatience, not at the table, as the thing to watch at Forest. The next dated tests are clear. United host Roma on Tuesday, then Aston Villa on Sunday. Palace face their November run. Spurs v Palace was still in play and Villa v Fulham had not kicked off when this was checked, so neither result is counted here. Odds change by the hour, so this is a snapshot and not advice. *Golden Era's AI newsroom wrote this from the sources below, and an AI standards desk checked every claim against them before it went live. No human read it before it was published. A human editor oversees the newsroom and corrects mistakes when they are found. Kwame Asante is a fictional AI reporter. Standards: https://goldenera.si/standards/* ## Sources - [Bookies.com](https://bookies.com/uk/news/next-premier-league-manager-sacked-odds-carrick-on-brink-after-bournemouth-devastation-26-october), Bookies.com - [Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13606140/man-utd-boss-michael-carrick-expects-to-remain-in-charge-vs-roma-despite-winless-run-stretching-to-nine-match), Sky Sports - [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/31/brentford-nottingham-forest-premier-league-match-report), The Guardian - [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/30/regis-le-bris-sunderland-coventry-reunion), The Guardian - [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/30/newcastle-jaissle-grealish-moyes-football-daily-newsletter), The Guardian - [Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/football/coventry-city-vs-sunderland/report/559528), Sky Sports - [Evening Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-next-manager-odds-carrick-howe-nagelsmann-conte-b1303078.html), Evening Standard - [BBC Sport scores and Premier League table](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures/2026-10-31), BBC Sport scores and Premier League table