Next West Brom Manager Odds: Featuring Gary O'Neil, Steve Cooper & Sean Dyche

West Brom are searching for a new manager following the dismissal of Tony Mowbray on Easter Monday after just three months in charge.

While West Brom are still mathematically in the mix for a Championship Play-Off spot, the odds are firmly stacked against them. Despite spending much of the season in the top six, it would take a highly unlikely sequence of results for the Baggies to sneak into the mix.

Attention will soon turn to the summer, and the task of building a team that will make the cut next season.

Gab Sutton has identified seven runners and riders in the next West Brom manager odds, featuring Gary O'Neil, Steve Cooper & Sean Dyche.

1. Gary O’Neil

Gary O’Neil has demonstrated an ability to steer sides in the Premier League that could have been set struggle against relegation, to the comfort of midtable, attaining 15th and 14th-placed finishes with Bournemouth and Wolves respectively - the former, after a rough start under Scott Parker.

The fact that he’s proven at that level is a big attraction for West Brom, as they look to reapply some of the pragmatism established under Carlos Corberan.

2. Steve Cooper

From successive Play-Off finishes with Swansea, to promotion via the Play-Offs with Nottingham Forest and Premier League survival, and now a record at that level with Leicester that looks favourable, in contrast with their demise under Ruud van Nistelrooy, Steve Cooper has been successful everywhere he’s been.

Add the high-end contacts and the Welshman looks a stand-out candidate.

3. Liam Rosenior

Harshly sacked by Hull, having had the Tigers on a clear upward trajectory, Liam Rosenior is now showing the Humbersiders what they’re missing at Strasbourg, who are flying high in 7th in Ligue 1.

The 40-year-old might be perceived as a more idealistic appointment than Cooper or O’Neil, but his sides have a nice balance about them and don’t lose many games: just 27 in 104 across his career to date.

That kind of reliability tends to get you in the Championship’s top six. 

4. Sean Dyche

Sean Dyche might feel he’s built a reputation for himself as a highly dependable Premier League manager, that he could be reluctant to compromise by dropping down to the Championship.

There may be a logistical factor at play, though, with the former centre-back now reportedly based in Nottingham, and with his son Max playing at Northampton - West Brom could be a handy geographical move for the former Burnley boss.

He’d certainly fix the back-line, and his former club’s success this season under Scott Parker shows you can achieve big things in the Championship if you build from strong defensive foundations.

5. Luke Williams

West Brom were reportedly interested in Luke Williams after Carlos Corberan left, even if they ultimately went for Mowbray.

The former Notts County boss was doing well at the time - four points off the Play-Offs on a low budget at the turn of the year - but being a bit too overt in his public courting of the job ended up burning his bridges with his existing employers.

As such, there’s cause for the Baggies to shine a kinder light on the subsequent slump of seven defeats in nine that cost him his job.

Williams is an excellent in-possession coach - it’s been obvious going back to his work at Swindon in the mid-2010s - but his strength as an out-of-possession coach is more in question, and he may need to work with a specialist on that side of things. 

6. Rob Edwards

It’s been quite some journey for Rob Edwards, since leaving the youth scene for senior management.

The Welshman won the League Two title with Forest Green in 2021-22, was sacked just 10 games into his Watford tenure the following season, won promotion at Wembley with their rivals Luton that same year, put up a great fight in the Premier League, before a disappointing return to the Championship.

Something of a whirlwind, so perhaps it’s benefited the 42-year-old to have a breather and take stock.

Edwards seems to be a man of real integrity (if you ask anyone other than Dale Vince), with excellent people skills and charm.

Based on what he’s achieved already in his career, then if he can demonstrate some reflections on the end of his time at Kenilworth Road, with some new learnings from his time out of work, he may come into consideration.

7. Danny Röhl

Alan Nixon’s reports that a Moroccan billionaire is hoping to buy Sheffield Wednesday has proven to be false, so it looks as though the unstable Chansiri regime at Hillsborough will continue into next season and beyond.

Suffice to say, it’s not the right club for an exciting coach with a burgeoning reputation to make that next step.

West Brom, with far stronger infrastructural foundations now under Shilen Patel’s ownership, represent a greater proposition - although the Baggies may face competition for Danny Rohl from Southampton, Leicester and Bundesliga clubs.

Röhl has maximized a poor Wednesday squad this season, despite suffering from a disappointing January in which the club failed to strengthen key areas, not to mention March’s failure to pay wages on time.

The 35-year-old is an excellent coach, with his sides focused on creating clear cut chances in their patient, 3-2-5 in-possession shape, but they are also effective at guarding against defensive transitions, despite conceding a lot due to having sub-par individual defenders, partly as a result of injury.

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