Next Hull City Manager Odds

Hull City are on the lookout for a new manager following the dismissal of Liam Rosenior.

The 39-year-old has actually been shortlisted for the Championship Manager of the Season Award, meaning that this decision has come as a surprise to some, considering the Tigers missed out on the play-offs by just three points having accumulated 70 points from 46 matches.

Rosenior took over Hull on 3rd November 2022, returning to a club where he made 144 league appearances as a player between 2010 and 2015 and oversaw 78 matches as manager, winning 27, drawing 28 and losing 23, equating to a 34.62% win percentage. There is no doubt that there will be plenty of suitors for the 39-year-old in the near future.

Former Hamburg manager Tim Walter is the firm favourite for the vacancy at the MKM Stadium at present.

Walter coached Hamburg between between July 2021 and February 2024, winning 51 and drawing 28 of his 104 matches in charge, but, ultimately failed to earn promotion to the Bundesliga having suffered defeats in the relegation/promotion play-out in both 2021/22 and 2022/23 - the occasion where 16th in the Bundesliga meets third in the 2. Bundesliga for a two-legged play-off.

Walter is priced at 1/2 to succeed Rosenior at Hull.

Ex-Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper comes in as second favourite to become Hull’s next manager.

The 44-year-old is a name that has been frequently shortlisted by many clubs, having shown his capabilities as a Premier League manager, having kept Forest in the top flight last season after earning a shock promotion.

When Cooper arrived at Forest in September 2021, he revived the City Ground club’s 2021/22 campaign, leading them from the bottom of the Championship to fourth place, in-turn, seeing off both Sheffield United and Huddersfield Town in the play-offs, taking Forest back to the Premier League for the first time since 1998/1999.

On top of this, Cooper did a good job while in charge of Swansea City between June 2019 and July 2021, leading the Swans to back-to-back play-off place finishes against all of the odds.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl is a name that will interest many, having worked wonders with the Owls during the 2023/24 season.

Rohl, has an excellent coaching pedigree having coached at RB Leipzig, Southampton and Bayern Munich while also previously being the assistant manager of the German National Team took over at Hillsborough in October 2023 with the club looking like certainties to be relegated to League One.

However the 35-year-old oversaw a run of form that saw Wednesday win 16 and draw six of their remaining 38 matches in 2023/24, meaning that the Owls finished 20th-place on 53 points against all the odds.

Will Still’s name is one that made a lot of headlines in 2022/23 having burst onto the scene as manager of Reims.

The then 30-year-old became the youngest manager across Europe’s top five leagues while being Reims’ caretaker manager in 2022/23 and went on a 17 match unbeaten run to start off his time at the club, including two draws with PSG. Further headlines were made about the fact that the club had to pay a €25,000 fine for every match he managed as he didn’t have a UEFA Pro License at the time.

To many people’s surprise, Still was sacked on 2nd May, with Reims loitering 12th in Ligue 1, 11 points away from European football and the same number of points ahead of the relegation play-out place.

Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut has been linked with a move to Hull as the 49-year-old’s contract is up in the Welsh capital this summer.

Bulut has worked wonders with Cardiff’s squad, as he guided them to a 12th-place finish with 62 points, despite being considered as potential relegation candidates last season.

If this is to be Bulut’s only season at Cardiff, then he will finish with a solid 40% win percentage having won 20 games and drawn six of his 50 matches in charge.

Former Inter Milan and Newcastle United midfielder Emre Belozoglu is an outsider for the vacancy at Hull.

Emre has had three managerial roles in his career to date, first of all being Interim Manager of Fenerbahce between March 2021 and May 2021, where he won seven and drew two of his 10 games in charge.

Following that brief spell as Interim Manager, Emre made the move to Istanbul Basaksehir between October 2021 and September 2023 where he took charge 90 times, coaching the club to fourth and fifth-place finishes.

At present, the 43-year-old coaches Ankaragucu who are currently 14th in the Turkish Super Lig with 39 points from 35 matches. Emre himself has overseen 35 matches in charge of the club, winning 12 and drawing 13.