Lee Grant facing Huddersfield Town sack - Richie Wellens and ex-Luton Town boss should be on Terriers radar | OneFootball

If Huddersfield end up axing Lee Grant, these are the two managers Kevin Nagle should be looking to replace him with

Lee Grant is going through his first rough patch in his young managerial career, but time may be running out for him to turn things around.

The former Ipswich Town coach won four of his first five league games in charge, with clean sheets coming in each win. However, since then, Huddersfield Town have picked up just two wins in their last eight, and their solid home form is starting to falter, too.

The Terriers have lost three straight games in League One — at home to a Stockport County side who played a good chunk of the second half with ten men, followed by a collapse against Bolton Wanderers, in which they let a 1-0 lead slip in second-half stoppage time, and then a 3-0 demolition against Wycombe Wanderers, managed by former Huddersfield boss Michael Duff.

One of the pre-season promotion favourites is currently adrift of even the play-offs, and Grant is subsequently fighting for his job, per an exclusive report by Football League World.

Whilst it could be wise to give the 42-year-old a little more time to salvage this poor run of form, the cutthroat and results-based nature of the game may not allow that to happen. If Kevin Nagle and the rest of the higher-ups at The Accu Stadium decide to part ways with Grant, here are two managers they could consider replacing him in the dugout.

Matt Bloomfield

Arguably the cheaper option of the two, Matt Bloomfield has been out of work for three weeks now, after Luton Town sacked him 11 games into the new League One campaign.

Many feel that the 41-year-old manager would be eager to get back into a new job, after he was hugely promising in the dugouts both at Kenilworth Road and at Wycombe previously. He had close to a 50% win rate at Adams Park, before then almost leading a great escape charge at Luton in the Championship last season.

Bloomfield likes his sides to be exciting and attacking, which fits the mould of a side with plenty of attacking talent across the board and an expectation to get on the front foot.

After Reading made a U-turn when it came to their interest in the former Hatters boss, Huddersfield could swoop in if they were to sack Lee Grant.

However, Bloomfield was relieved of his duties at Kenilworth Road due to a middling start, which was solid, but one which underperformed the lofty expectations Luton had set themselves at the start of the League One season. If Grant is being sacked for the exact same reason, Huddersfield may be wary of the same thing happening here.

Richie Wellens

As is the case whenever any top job in League One becomes available, Richie Wellens will be linked due in part to the incredible run he made with Leyton Orient all the way to the third-tier play-off final last May.

So far this year, Wellens has led Orient into a fast-paced start with plenty of goals flying in at either end. Their 21 goals scored are the second most in the division, but their 23 conceded are the joint highest, too.

People wonder what a Richie Wellens team could do if it had a little more quality in it, and at Huddersfield, people would be able to find out, as the Terriers have one of the best budgets in the division and ambitions to climb higher.

Unlike Bloomfield, however, Huddersfield would need to pay a compensation fee to release him from the contract he has at Leyton Orient. According to Alan Nixon, that figure stood at around £1 million when Luton and Blackpool were in for him.

The higher-ups at Huddersfield would likely be able to pay that, but to bring someone in who hasn't worked with a squad as talented as the Terriers', and one Grant masterminded a 3-0 win over earlier this season, would be a risk, especially if the current manager is deemed not good enough.

Lee Grant needs to turn things around quickly if he is to keep his job. The Terriers take on Bolton in FA Cup action this weekend, before playing host to struggling Plymouth Argyle the week after.