Could these 4 Premier League bosses get the axe before Christmas?

Andy Hessenthaler became the first Football League manager to be sacked this season when Leyton Orient dismissed the former Gillingham boss after just five months in charge. Since then, Warren Feeney, Tony Mowbray, Roberto Di Matteo, Francesco Guidolin, Paul Trollope, Micky Mellon and Nigel Pearson have all been sacked by their respective clubs – with many more expected to face the axe over the coming months.

It was Francesco Guidolin who was the first top-flight managerial casualty, just seven games into the new season after a series of bad results.

Swansea, who currently sit 17th in the table, have not won a game since the opening day of the Premier League season and acted swiftly to replace the Italian with ex-USA boss Bob Bradley.

Guidolin’s sacking came on his 61st birthday and just one day earlier than the first Premier League managerial departure of last season, when Brendan Rogers was sacked after 3 years in charge of Liverpool.

Now the first sacking of the season is out of the way, it is more than likely that more will follow and here are five Premier League managers who the guys here at Shoot! think could see their position come under threat by Christmas…

Aitor Karanka – Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough haven’t had the worst start to their first Premier League season since 2008/09, having taken six points from their first seven games, but it is enough for Aitor Karanka to start worrying about his position as manager.

Their only victory has been against bottom of the table Sunderland and they only managed a draw against two of the teams placed below them in the table.

Whilst the Spaniard shouldn’t be too concerned at the moment, if performances and results don’t start to improve before Christmas, his job could definitely come under some serious threat.

Slaven Bilic – West Ham

Slaven Bilic has endured a disastrous start to the season with West Ham, who sit firmly in the relegation zone having lost five of their opening seven Premier League games.

His side also failed to qualify for the Europa League group stages after losing to lowly Romanian side Astra Giurgiu.

Despite this, the owners have recently given their backing to the Croatian boss and, in fairness to him, the team has been plagued by injuries and are trying to settle in to a new ground.

However, should the poor form continue then it won’t be long before the 48 year-old is shown the door.

Mark Hughes – Stoke

Pressure must be mounting on Stoke City’s Mark Hughes, with his side being one of the only two teams still without a victory in the Premier League this season.

The 52-year-old has been with the club since May 2013 but you can’t help but feel that their time together may soon be coming to a rather abrupt end.

The Potters look fundamentally broken and have already conceded four goals on three separate occasions in 2016/17. Whilst Hughes has guided Stoke to three successive top-ten finishes before this season, he must have some doubt over his future with the club recording their worst start to a campaign ever with just three points from seven games.

David Moyes – Sunderland

After being chosen to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, things haven’t really gone to plan for the 53-year-old having been sacked from both United and Real Sociedad after less than a year in charge of both respective clubs.

Now at Sunderland, Moyes will be coming under tremendous pressure once again with the Black Cats rock bottom of the Premier League table and yet to win a league game this season.

The Scot is struggling to identify just what is going wrong at the club and he himself must be starting to worry about what’s ahead.

The fact that Sunderland have not completed a full season without a managerial change since Steve Bruce in 2010 must only add to his concern.