Newcastle, Liverpool and Blackburn have already got twitchy and replaced their managers this season – but who will be the next club to wield the axe in the Premier League?

As sure as night follows day, the survival chances of any football manager are about as precarious as Jordan, sorry, Katie Price’s latest husband, but factor in the millions of pounds washing around in the English top flight these days, well you get the drift.

Chris Hughton, ‘Big’ Sam Allardyce and Roy Hodgson have all been handed their P45s – with Alan Pardew, Steve Kean and ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish profiting from their downfalls – but they will not be the last this season – fact!

So who will be the next boss heading off to Dubai to lick his wounds? Well, I reckon it’s between Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Martinez, with Mick McCarthy, Mark Hughes and Avram Grant also candidates for their own private ’squeaky bum’ time.

Carlo Ancelotti

Chelsea head honcho Roman Abramovich did not become one of the wealthiest men in the galaxy by being a charity case and even though the Italian scooped the double last season, he is still in deep trouble.

Captain John Terry has now come out and said results – one win in nine league games – are not good enough and it’s never a good sign when the former England captain goes on record like that.

Quite how Ancelotti has managed to hang on and not pay the price is a mystery – maybe it’s a question of brinkmanship to see who blinks first?

Anyway, Chelsea (3/10 – match betting) should win their next game which is against Blackburn (8/1) at Stamford Bridge, but will it buy him much more time?

Roberto Martinez

Wigan supremo Dave Whelan went on record last season when he appointed Martinez to assure the Spaniard he would not be sacked if he took Latics back into the Championship. And he didn’t have to pack the likeable 37-year-old back off to Catalonia following a 16th-placed finish.

This term Wigan got off to a terrible start by shipping 10 goals in their first two games which included a 4-0 defeat by new boys Blackpool on the opening day.

Latics started 2011 in the bottom three and while Whelan would not want to dispense with Martinez, is he really going to stomach more of the same between now and May?

Wigan (7/5 – match betting) face a six-pointer against Fulham (9/5) at the DW Stadium this weekend.

McCarthy, Hughes and Grant

These three must all fear being turned away at the gates of the training ground on a daily basis, but they probably don’t have much to fear.

McCarthy is not exactly everyone’s cup of tea (ask Roy Keane) but keeping Wolves up last season must count for something following promotion the season before?

Hughes is in the early stages of his job at Craven Cottage but they should have enough to stay up and continue rebuilding in the summer under ‘Sparky’.

And Grant would surely have gone before now – even given his Carling Cup run – if the Hammers could afford to pay off the remaining three-and-a-half years of the four-year deal he was handed a matter of months ago?

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