Next West Brom manager odds with Steve Bruce heavy favourite as Valerien Ismael departs

Here is the bookmakers’ new Albion manager market, and the odds of those immediately deemed to be in the running after Ismael was sacked

West Brom and Valerien Ismael have parted ways after just seven months and with Albion sitting sixth in the Championship table.

Defeats to Preston North End and Millwall in the space of four days last week proved to be the most damaging of Ismael’s short-lived reign and the club announced that he’d be leaving the club despite still having more than three years left to run on the contract he signed last summer.

Albion will now go about sourcing a successor to Ismael, at least until the end of the season - and the current favourite, odds on, is former Blues and Villa manager Steve Bruce who has been backed into 1/8.

He's been out of work since leaving Newcastle earlier this season, and has a CV packed with experience, which would likely attract the current board at Albion right at this moment.

Slaven Bilic, the former Albion boss, is second favourite and former Manchester City U23 and Parma manager Enzo Maresca is third on the list.

Here is the bookmakers’ new Albion manager market, and the odds of those immediately deemed to be in the running.

(Source: Sky Bet)

Steve Bruce 1/8

Slaven Bilic 8/1

Enzo Maresca 11/1

Tony Mowbray 12/1

Alex Neil 14/1

John Terry 14/1

James Morrison 16/1

Nathan Jones 16/1

Neil Warnock 18/1

Slavisa Jokanovic 18/1

Chris Wilder 20/1

Mark Robins 20/1

Sam Allardyce 20/1

Wayne Rooney 20/1

Daniel Farke 22/1

Gary Rowett 22/1

Michael Appleton 22/1

Paul Cook 22/1

Paul Warne 22/1

Darren Ferguson 25/1

Darren Moore 25/1

Gareth Ainsworth 25/1

Lee Bowyer 25/1

Lee Johnson 25/1

Mick McCarthy 25/1

Roy Keane 25/1

Steve Cooper 25/1

Liam Manning 33/1

Sol Campbell 33/1

Nigel Adkins 40/1

Paul Ince 40/1

Emma Hayes 50/1

Ian Holloway 50/1

Mike Newell 66/1