In recent years managerial sacking rates have been at an all time high. Is this due to poor managerial ability or the lack of time given to the men in these professions? The sacking of managers has become such an important subject in football now that bookies even giving regular odds upon a manager being sacked. What’s more ‘the sack race’ is a constant source of rumour and speculation that fills papers and keeps people interested when the transfer window is closed. But why do we have this strange – somewhat morbid – obsession?
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas is a prime example at the moment, as he is under a huge amount of pressure to succeed at Chelsea and after just 25 games in the Premier League there is continuing talk of the dismissal of the Chelsea boss. Personally I feel this unfair as this is not enough time to evolve a team to the standard that you want and to talk of sacking after this small amount of games is ridiculous.
Managers nowadays are under huge pressure to succeed no doubt but only being given a short time in a job is not right and doesn’t help team, club or fan morale. Dismissals early in a job can also lead to a damaged reputation of the manager meaning they will find it hard to secure a job further in their career. This will likely only further fuel the belief that managing is an ‘old mans’ game’ as young talent gets tossed aside at the earliest convenience.
Lee Clark, former Huddersfield boss has just recently been sacked after 4 years at the club, this is a good time scale but I still feel he was unfairly sacked losing just 3 of his last 55 games as manager. If this is not good enough at a club then managers in the game have virtually no hope.
So should manager’s success be instantaneous or should they be given enough time? Sir Alex Ferguson was given time and that resulted in a phenomenal amount of trophies. The other route is to do what Abramovich has done at Chelsea and begin a campaign of or regular sackings anend up with too few trophies. Surely this kind of evidence speaks for itself – so why aren’t managers given more time?
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Abramovich is a prime example of someone with too much money who wants instant success when in reality Chelsea’s slide is because he sacked Mourhino for no good reason other than he didn’t win the CL. But neither has any if his replacements.