{"id":17438,"date":"2010-06-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"sousas-odds-for-leicester-job-cut-to-411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/06\/30\/sousas-odds-for-leicester-job-cut-to-411\/","title":{"rendered":"Sousa&#8217;s Odds For Leicester Job Cut To 4\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\">Leicester are on the lookout for a new manager after Nigel Pearson left for Hull City yesterday and Sousa has been installed as the clear early favourite for the post.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Portuguese, a good friend of Milan Mandaric, has been strongly linked with a number of jobs over the summer after finishing 7th at Swansea in his first season.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He has been placed at 4\/11 to take the Walkers hot seat, with former Reading boss Brendan Rogers the second favourite some way behind at 5\/1.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Earlier today, he was at 4\/6 and started out at 20\/1 when the market opened.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Huw Jenkins refused to confirm what&nbsp;the club&#39;s response to an approach&nbsp;would be should Mandaric come calling for Sousa.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;There hasn&#39;t been any contact and I have got no idea whether they are interested in Paulo,&quot; Jenkins said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;I am not commenting on speculation. I have had a meeting with Paulo and he is concentrating on Swansea City.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Lee Watts, of Mark Jarvis bookmakers, told the Leicester Mercury: &quot;The word on the street is that Paulo is the man for Milan and that is reflected in his odds.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester are on the lookout for a new manager after Nigel Pearson left for Hull City yesterday and Sousa has been installed as the clear early favourite for the post. The Portuguese, a good friend of Milan Mandaric, has been strongly linked with a number of jobs over the summer after finishing 7th at Swansea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}