4 Premier League managers who might face the axe by the end of the season

#2 Mark Hughes

Unimpressive should be the word for Southampton's woeful beginning of the campaign and anyone would think that with the continuation of Mark Hughes after last season, this was expected.

The manager boasts a cadre of experience but his decline has been atrocious and what happened with Stoke City should have warned Southampton enough to let him leave just like West Ham left Moyes.

St.Mary's stadium has been a nightmare of a silence with very little joy and with wins being a rare commodity at the display, time is running out for Hughes. The playing style is pretty old-fashioned with a resolute 4-4-2 but the results just haven't been convincing.

They are hovering just a point above the relegation zone and if the upcoming fixtures against Newcastle and Leicester do not yield a positive result, Hughes will face a departure from an English side yet again.