Finally, the Erik Ten Hag Manchester United Sack Saga is over. He was eventually suspended and eventually had to suffer what was essentially some sort of unlucky, negligible defeat, with the poor guy convinced that he had been on the receiving end every weekend for about 18 months.

But time and tabloid attention wait for no one. Of course, now there is a brief flurry where everyone is distracted. United set about appointing Ruben Amorim as next victim.

And since United are United, the ‘in place by Chelsea’ thing already looks a bit vulnerable – there’s a good chance Amorim could enjoy a few days’ release clause and backroom staff compensation.

But in time this too will be completed. As the days go by, everyone will stop speculating about who can play wing-back in Amorim’s 3-4-3, introducing us to his WAG or calling him “Mourinho 2.0” because he is Portuguese and everyone else comes from another country. Isn’t it basically the same person and it will all end.

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This is where we’re all going to need a new goal, right? Ten Hag and United provide a lot of protection to many clubs and managers. That was gone, at least until Amorim lost two matches in a row during the Intense Festive Period and everyone started questioning whether they had the minerals needed for our Game. He’s never done this outside of Portugal, right? Isn’t it a different game?

Of course, that’s getting closer, but it’s still a few weeks away. A honeymoon period is approaching, and tradition dictates that we all respect it.

So who’s the next sign then? A brief look at the Sack Race He reveals that Russell Martin and Gary O’Neil are the table decorators. I’m sorry, but this won’t work. We need a bigger name than this. Who, with the best intentions in the world, would bother to crack a Southampton badge? Definitely.

Pep Guardiola could leave Manchester City at the end of his final trophy-winning seasonBut it’s a bit of a stretch to suggest there’s some sort of crisis in their unbeaten table top, especially with Tottenham’s annual heist tradition safely out of the way at the Carabao, which no one will remember. Of course, it is possible for Arsenal and Liverpool to be eliminated; Even the ever-reliable crisis club column fillers at Chelsea are annoyingly refusing to play under Enzo Maresca this season.

With Aston Villa certainly not in crisis, we are left with only two options. And for the manager we always want to see Barclays take on the role of getting a bad result or two, our vote is for Mr Eddie Howe.

That won’t happen because, as the only English manager appointed at a big club, trying to talk him out of it won’t work. But he’s making light of the situation, and now someone has to be the center of attention, and frankly, it should be him.

The only other real option is Ange Postecoglou. The man who built a magnificently fragile and magnificent Spurs team at great expense in north London. The problem is that Clive, if anything, almost did it. more Alright.

They’re a little too much fun. They have scored more goals than Arsenal this season and their current form includes a stunning 4-1 come-from-behind win against West Ham, a disastrous defeat at Crystal Palace, where they had previously failed to win, and a 2-1 draw against City. It’s a magnificent victory. carabao Meanwhile, they also defeated another in Europe; The significance of this (almost certainly close to zero) will not be quantifiable even by football’s best for several months.

But the key is that this is not a manager or team whose current course you want to change. They are already the Premier League’s most trusted content creators; They score great goals, suffer disastrous defeats, defend extremely entertainingly and regularly score larger-scale wins. Ange stays. Spurs should stay Spurs.

That leaves Howe. We need to gain some momentum by going around him, facing the axe. It could even be said that he only has four games to save his job. He certainly can’t complain that the whispers have started after Newcastle’s two-point run in their last five Premier League games has seen them drop to mid-table after a hugely deceptive start that saw four unconvincing performances somehow yield 10 unlikely points.

They’re in pretty bad shape – except for the Carabao, but the great thing about the Carabao is that it only matters when you want it to, and it’s so insignificant that it can be ignored when you don’t – but most importantly, they’re also pretty bad off. in a boring way.

Newcastle weren’t very good last season either, but it was a lot of fun. Alexander Isak was truly one of the best forwards in the league; everyone agreed that Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes were Barclays’ top talents.

Only the top three teams edged Newcastle last season, none of the rest coming close, but Howe’s side also managed to concede more goals than Spurs and nearly as many goals as Chelsea when they were least serious in 20 years. Nearly 150 goals were scored in Newcastle matches last season. That’s a good thing and who cares if all this leaves you face to face with Manchester United, their broken badge, leaky stadium and cheating manager and the embarrassing reality of finishing in the points.

But this year? Boring. In the Premier League you can be boring, you can be ineffective, but you won’t be able to escape either for long. Howe’s Newcastle are ineffectively boring at the moment.

They have now scored fewer goals than all 11 teams above them in the table and many of the teams below them. Only Southampton, Palace and Manchester United have managed fewer than Newcastle’s nine goals. To make matters worse, they only conceded 10 goals, which is pretty boring.

You can argue all you want that this isn’t fair, but Premier League fans must have their bread and butter and it may just be Newcastle’s turn to provide them. And let’s face it, it’s not like finishing seventh last year and going backwards from there on the available evidence was part of Newcastle’s grand plan after finishing fourth and becoming the richest club on the planet, right?

Even so, we can say that this interest is late. With Ten Hag finally gone, all the shine of the Sack Race must fall on someone else, and Eddie Howe, the standard-bearer of a largely non-existent new generation of British managers, looks the most likely candidate we have at the moment.

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