The upheaval did not begin this summer. The 2025-26 Premier League season featured 11 managerial changes, with Forest among the clubs to make multiple appointments during the campaign.<\/p>\n
The average tenure of a top-flight boss now stands at about 20 months, illustrating just how fleeting life in one of football’s most demanding jobs can now be.<\/p>\n
Recent history also suggests changing manager offers no guarantees. During the 2025-26 season, several clubs that switched coaches continued to struggle. Forest employed three managers during the campaign, Tottenham<\/a> changed head coach twice, while Chelsea<\/a> also altered direction before the season ended.<\/p>\n Others, however, did enjoy an immediate uplift. Carrick averaged 2.6 points per game across his first five matches as United boss, while Rosenior collected the same return after taking charge of Chelsea<\/a>. Rosenior’s tenure ultimately proved short-lived, though, with the Blues winning just one of his final eight Premier League matches before he was dismissed.<\/p>\n Research discussed in the Financial Times, external<\/a>, drawing on findings from Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, argues that player quality and spending remain stronger predictors of results than managerial changes alone.<\/p>\n Sports consultancy Twenty First Group says coaches often succeed or fail according to the environment they inherit as much as their own abilities.<\/p>\n Since the Premier League began in 1992, only six managers have won the title in their first season in charge of their club.<\/p>\n Mourinho became the first to achieve the feat with Chelsea<\/a> in 2004-05, before Carlo Ancelotti repeated it with the same club in 2009-10. <\/p>\n Manuel Pellegrini guided Manchester City<\/a> to the title in his debut campaign in 2013-14, Claudio Ranieri masterminded Leicester City’s remarkable triumph in 2015-16, Conte won the league in his first season at Chelsea<\/a> in 2016-17, and most recently Slot led Liverpool<\/a> to the championship in his maiden campaign in 2025-26.<\/p>\n With almost half the division beginning the campaign under new leadership, the Premier League enters one of its most unpredictable seasons in recent memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upheaval did not begin this summer. The 2025-26 Premier League season featured 11 managerial changes, with Forest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-842980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}