The Premier League’s Record-Breaking Season

That’s because Chelsea’s 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa on April 1st saw their manager of barely seven months, Graham Potter, dismissed from his duties. The former Brighton & Hove Albion boss has endured a disastrous time at Stamford Bridge however, it did look like the club had turned a corner barely a month prior. The Blues reeled off three consecutive victories including progressing to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League with a 2-1 aggregate victory over Borussia Dortmund.
The fact that Potter has been dismissed barely two months on from the biggest spending spree in recent memory also boggles the mind even more. The Stamford Bridge outfit spent £323m on new players throughout the January transfer window, an amount more than the Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 combined. Enzo Fernandez, Mykhaylo Mudryk, and Benoît Badiashile all headed to London for eye-watering fees and it looked like Graham Potter was the man to mold the new squad.
However, that is clearly not the case. Potter is now gone and on the same day, Brendan Rodgers was also dismissed from his role as manager of Leicester City. The Foxes are well and truly embroiled in a relegation dogfight just 12 months on from featuring in a European semifinal and the club has gambled that their top-flight status has a better chance of being retained with a new man at the helm at the King Power Stadium. As those that have read the Cherry Pop slot review and subsequently played the popular slot game on Thunderpick will tell you, sometimes you can hit it big when gambling and that is exactly what fans of The Foxes will be praying for before the current season is out.
With Antonio Conte’s dismissal from Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the aforementioned sackings of Potter and Rodgers, the Premier League now has a new record of 12 sackings this season. Let’s take a look at them in depth.
The first man to be dismissed throughout the current Premer League campaign was Scott Parker. The former West Ham United captain led Bournemouth from the Championship last season and then was given a full preseason and transfer window to get the Cherries squad ready for an English top-flight campaign. He was then unceremoniously sacked on August 30th after just four games in charge and to make matters worse for the former England international, he has also been hired and fired by Club Brugge this season as well.
A week on from Parker’s dismissal, Chelsea’s UEFA Champions League-winning manager Thomas Tuchel was relieved of his duties following a disappointing start to the season. It was the decision that no Chelsea fan wanted, and their iconic German manager was then replaced with the man that none of them wanted as well. Things went as badly as everyone expected, Graham Potter was eventually sacked in similarly baffling circumstances, and Blues fans are left confused as to what their owner Todd Boehly has in store for them throughout the rest of his tenure.
The next man on the chopping block was Southampton’s Ralph Hasenhuttl and his replacement was perhaps the most disastrous appointment of all. Luton Town’s Nathan Jones took over from the sacked Austrian and he proceeded to pat himself on the back a few too many times throughout his short tenure. He too was sent packing after a scarcely believable three months in charge.
The Jones’ sacking was the third managerial dismissal in just three weeks throughout the opening months of 2023. Frank Lampard and Jesse Marsch, two men who led Everton and Leeds United respectively to safety last season, were both fired from their jobs. Both the Toffees and the Whites are embroiled in a relegation scrap once again this term and it was no surprised to see either of them sent packing, and the subsequent dismissal of Nathan Jones was even less surprising.
Then for six weeks or so, the Premier League had a surprising baron spell. However, that came to an end when Patrick Vieira was fired by Crystal Palace despite doing a sterling job throughout the last 18 months. And to make matters worse for fans of the Eagles, Vieira was replaced by the man that he was originally brought in to replace, Roy Hodgson, in an appointment that couldn’t be any less exciting if it tried to be.
Then finally, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth sackings came in the form of the aforementioned Antonio Conte, Brendan Rodgers, and Graham Potter. Those three were dismissed within six days of each other, and the new record of 12 sackings in a season may well never be topped.