{"id":652255,"date":"2025-12-24T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652255\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:57:24","slug":"frank-lampards-odds-of-being-the-next-birmingham-city-manager-revealed-amid-chris-davies-sack-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652255\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard&#8217;s odds of being the next Birmingham City manager revealed amid Chris Davies sack news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-Insets-6-8-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Frank Lampard looking at Birmingham City banner in circle\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766570240_602_5848db4324c310988559cebb9bd78bda\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Jack Dawson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Wed 24 December 2025 9:00, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Davies is under serious pressure in the Championship after a series of poor results in the Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues are now 14th in the Championship, having lost 3-0 to Sheffield United on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/exclusive-birmingham-city-make-chris-davies-sack-decision-new-manager-shortlist-emerges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davies could soon face the sack at Birmingham City<\/a>, with the manager having two games to save his job.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there is a chance the Blues could be searching for a new manager in the new year, with the bookies making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/frank-lampard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Lampard<\/a> an outsider already.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chris-Davies-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Birmingham City manager Chris Davies\" class=\"wp-image-583372\" \/>Credit: GettyFrank Lampard an outsider for Birmingham City job <\/p>\n<p>Lampard has had an excellent season to date.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea manager is top of the league with Coventry City, with the Midlands side the favourites to win promotion this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, this has not stopped the manager from being linked away, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-coventry-city-block-frank-lampard-from-joining-premier-league-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple Premier League sides eyeing Lampard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City\u2019s<\/a> big aspirations, it is not out of the question that they would try to tempt the Coventry coach to the Blues dugout.<\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the bookies believe this is an unlikely scenario.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Next-Birmingham-City-manager-odds-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Next Birmingham City manager odds graphic\" class=\"wp-image-786541\" \/>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>One bookmaker has Lampard at 25\/1 to take over at St. Andrew\u2019s next, making him the 12th-favourite.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Lee Carsley has the best odds at 7\/2, followed by Gary O\u2019Neil and Michael Carrick at both 6\/1.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the current favourites to be sacked next in the Championship?<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/championship-sack-race-takes-twist-as-odds-slashed-after-exit-decision-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davies is the current favourite to be sacked next in the Championship<\/a>. His odds are currently 5\/4, with West Brom\u2019s Ryan Mason following behind at 11\/4.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list is the current Sheffield Wednesday manager, Henrik Pedersen, at 5\/1.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/chris-davies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davies<\/a>, no doubt, has his back against the wall given the current form of the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>However, the manager has managed to turn this around before, and he will be fighting every step of the way to save his job.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, he is able to pick up a result against Derby County on Boxing Day, or it could be curtains for the manager despite winning promotion last season.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Wed 24 December 2025 9:00, UK Chris Davies is under serious pressure in the Championship after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,40163,393,7129,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-652255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-coventry-city","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-frank-lampard","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115773955459277769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}