TWO Premier League managers are heading for difficult conversations this summer

There are two high-profile Premier league managers staring down the barrel of a tough conversation this summer after under-whelming seasons, Mail Sport's Sami Mokbel told It's All Kicking Off.

While only two managers have yet lost their jobs in the top-flight, in Steve Cooper and Paul Heckingbottom, there have been several teams falling somewhat short of pre-season expectations.

As a result there has been mounting pressure at both ends of the table as we approach the final stretch of the campaign.

As such, Mail Sport's Chief Football Reporter highlighted two such managers headed for difficult discussion at the end of the campaign if results continue to play out as they have been.

Both managers are at clubs you would expect to be fighting for the Champions League spaces - and have also spent heavily in recent years but are yet to mount a credible threat to the top four this term.

The first of those two bosses is Mauricio Pochettino at Chelsea, who may have only joined last summer, but speculation is already swirling around his future.

Mail Sport's Football Editor Ian Ladyman suggested that his side 'look like they're drifting' this season, sat in 10th place after a 4-1 defeat to Liverpool on Wednesday.

Although they are in the Carabao Cup final - where they will face Liverpool in a replay of the 2022 edition - it has been a desperately below-par campaign for the Stamford Bridge outfit.

The Blues' huge spending in recent windows has been well-documented, and for the club to still be under-performing perhaps places pressure on Pochettino's shoulders, and Mokbel reports that the Argentine is set for a 'difficult conversation'.

'There are conversations to be had, and the indicators now are that it will be a difficult conversation -