Cardiff City have parted ways with manager Neil Harris and assistant manager David Livermore after the club fell to a sixth defeat in a row in the Championship, throwing the club from title contenders to a mid-table slump.
The Bluebirds are now in 15th, with 29 points from 24 games and their play-off march looks dead and buried already, given how the club are 13 points of Bournemouth in sixth.
Here we take a look at the next Cardiff manager odds.
Veteran manager Mick McCarthy is always looked at by club in the Championship when turmoil arrives. The former Republic of Ireland boss has been managing clubs up and down England since 1992, and was most recently with Cypriot side APOEL.
However, his time at the club was utterly disastrous and APOEL, who are the record winners of 28 titles in Cyprus, sacked McCarthy after just two months following five defeats, two wins and a draw from eight games.
The ex-Ireland international has won the Championship on two occasions, once with Sunderland in 2005 and again four years later with Wolverhampton Wanderers. However, given Cardiff's title-chasing collapse, McCarthy is going to be brought in more to steady the ship than anything else, and it is a wise decision for the Bluebirds to do so.
The last time McCarthy was in English football was with Ipswich Town from 2012-2018, where he initially saced the club from relegation, before keeping them mid-table for a while, finishing as high as sixth in 2015. As soon as he left Ipswich, the club were relegated that season and have been in League One ever since, so his worth is very clear for Cardiff to see.
Mick McCarthy to Cardiff odds are now at 1/5.
As McCarthy is the clear by the bookmakers, everyone thereafter is seen as a backup, and Craig Bellamy is looked at as the man just behind McCarthy.
Bellamy has a long history with Cardiff having been born there, but only ever playing for the club on one loan spell in 2011, and again in for two years as he helped his boyhood club to promotion into the Premier League and stayed with them for one season in the top flight.
The Welshman would retire at Cardiff and eventually join them as a volunteer coach before moving into a role as a player development manager and nearly took the vacant Oxford United job after losing out on the Wales job to Ryan Giggs.
Right now, Bellamy is in Belgium with Anderlecht's U21 as he works alongside former Manchester City teammate, Vincent Kompany. Bellamy, in terms of managerial credentials, is far from what Cardiff need right now, but he remains the second favourite at 8/1
