Lee Carsley has seen his odds to be become the next Coventry City manager slashed ahead of his last two games in charge of England.
The 50-year-old has been in charge of the Three Lions since Gareth Southgate stepped down after Euro 2024.
He was only ever in interim charge although he was touted as a possible permanent successor after an encouraging start.
Thomas Tuchel has since been given the role, though, and after the current international break, Carsley will stand down from his temporary position.
He could be handed the opportunity to head straight into club management at a club he knows well from his playing and early coaching days.
Oddschecker report that Carsley’s odds to be the next permanent manager of Coventry have been slashed from 8/1 to 5/2 in some places.
At the time of writing, his odds are even shorter with Sky Bet offering just 7/4 on Carsley taking up the role with the Sky Blues.
However, those odds do not make him favourite for the gig as Frank Lampard is EVENS for the position.
Coventry currently sit 17th in the Championship after a poor start to the season which cost Mark Robins his job earlier this month.
Carsley had two spells as a player for the club and has coached there before, taking caretaker charge of the first team in 2012 and ’13.
Also in the frame for the job is Wycombe Wanderers boss Matt Bloomfield, with his team top of the League One table after a superb start to the season.
Bloomfield has responded to the links, saying: ‘I’ve not heard anything about that. As far as I am concerned, it is just speculation.
‘It is lovely to be linked with jobs higher up the food chain as it shows that the job you are doing is the right one.
‘It’s all about the players because if they aren’t performing on the pitch, you get linked with leaving your job for all the wrong reasons and if they’re doing well, you get linked the other way.’
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