5 potential FC Pune City managerial replacements for Miguel Angel Portugal

#4 Austin MacPhee

MacPhee is currently the assistant head coach of Scottish Premiership side Hearts. He is also an assistant to Martin O'Neill with the Northern Ireland national team since 2014.

MacPhee's Hearts finished sixth in the Scottish Premier League in 2017-18 with 49 points.

Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Scottish Premiership side St.Mirren as an assistant coach.

According to a report by the Daily Record, Pune City offered MacPhee a lucrative deal worth in the region of £350k a season. It will be interesting to see whether Pune revisit the opportunity to sign MacPhee.

#5 Pradyum Reddy

After the dismissal of Miguel Portugal, Pune City appointed Pradhyum Reddy as the interim manager. Reddy is no stranger to Indian football, having won the Second Division I-League with Shillong Lajong in 2011.

Following that, he moved to Bengaluru FC as the assistant to Ashley Westwood. After three trophy-laden years at Bengaluru, Reddy joined Pune City as the assistant coach for the first team and the head of football – youth in 2017. In footballing circles, he is known as someone whose core strength lies in scouting, nurturing and grooming young talent. In fact, Reddy was one of the key reasons for Pune City’s phenomenal run last season.

It remains to be seen whether Reddy is given enough time and chance to impress and possibly win the job outright.

Edited by Kishan Prasad