Given the amount of sport that has dominated the summer months, you'd have veen forgiven for not realising that the new Premier League season was just a few days away before Saturday's Community Shield. And so while teams are still finessing their transfer business and making final tactical tweaks even after the traditional curtain-raiser, everything is pretty much in place for the 2024-25 campaign to begin.
That means its predictions season, and here at GOAL we're no different. Over the next week our writers will be giving their takes on all the biggest issues, from the teams who are likely to be scrapping for survival to those who will be fighting for top-four finishes and the title, and everything in between.
Today, we've taken a look at the managers who are vying to avoid being the first to be sacked once the new campaign gets under way: