According to the Daily Mirror, Stoke City have already chosen a replacement for if their current first team manager Nathan Jones departs the club.
Jones, who left Luton Town last season for the Potters, was warned by EFL on Quest pundit Dean Ashton that he could get the sack by the end of October unless he starts picking up some points.
He continues to struggles to do so and now the club are said to plan on offering Chris Hughton a return to the dugout, which will be his first job since he was sacked by Brighton last season.
They are bottom of the Championship table with just one point from a possible 24 and Jones has won just three of his 29 games in charge.
Hughton, 14 years older than their current manager, has a cracking record in the Championship, where he has lead Newcastle to the title in 2010, took Birmingham City to the playoffs, and guided Brighton into the Premier League for the first time in their history.
A few weeks back Stoke boss said: “I have conversations with the owners and I’m not going to walk away from this. We are nowhere near that. We have changed so much around here and we’re a woulda, shoulda, coulda team at the moment.
“We shouldn’t be in the crisis we’re in, or the difficult spell we’re in, because we should have beaten other teams have six or seven points on the board. Yes, we lost to Leeds three but a lot of teams will lose to Leeds three. I’m not saying that is acceptable but this wouldn’t have been as scrutinised as it is.
“Because we’re in the form we are, the position we are and the size of club we are, we are underachieving and I know that. That won’t continue forever. One way or another, that won’t continue.
“It is a big challenge, it really is. First and foremost you have to win football games because you can’t be where we are. We have to start changing that.
“We have had to change a lot about the dynamic and the environment and we’ve made massive strides with that and that has to change – because something will change.”
Around the time of this quote, journalist Alan Nixon claimed Stoke were continuing to back him with the club set to bring in a new director of football who is an ally of the former Luton boss.
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