Next Fulham manager odds: The favourites to succeed Claudio Ranieri

Fulham are in the market for their third permanent manager of a wretched 2018-19 season after parting company with Claudio Ranieri.

The Italian departed Craven Cottage following Wednesday night's 2-0 defeat to relegation rivals Southampton, a fourth consecutive loss that left last year's Championship play-off winners 19th in the Premier League and 10 points adrift of safety with only 10 matches left to play this term.

Ranieri won only three and lost 11 of his 17 games at the helm after being named as the successor to Slavisa Jokanovic in mid-November.

With relegation and an instant return to the second tier looking almost certain, Fulham - now under the caretaker guidance of first-team coach Scott Parker - will presumably look to appoint a manager capable of leading them back to the top-flight at the first attempt.

The current bookmakers' favourite is David Moyes, who has been out of work since leaving West Ham last May at the end of his short-term contract.

The former Everton, Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland manager has not managed in the Championship since leaving Preston for Goodison Park in 2002.

Other prominent contenders according to the odds include David Wagner, who left relegation rivals Huddersfield in January, and Claude Puel, whose 16-month reign at Leicester was brought to an unhappy conclusion last weekend.

Sam Allardyce is a seemingly permanent fixture in these sorts of early lists, while it remains to be seen if Michael O'Neill can be lured away from his role with Northern Ireland.

There was visible support for Jokanovic in the away end at St Mary's and he also features in the betting, but surely a return to west London for the Serbian would be deemed hugely unlikely.