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Question

I am not a great football follower, but can someone explain to me why the top managers just walk into another similar job when they have been sacked from a previous club...Is there any other walk of life where you can be sacked one week, and the next week walk into an identical job...you never seem to see new faces, just the same old ones recycled...there must be some logic, but I can't see it.

Good answers, thanks...my main point is how do new young managers come through the system when all the old ones just keep re appearing....

Answer 1

The reason why many managers get re-hired after getting the sack by other clubs is that the clubs that are hiring them look at what they achieved before they got sacked. Sometimes the manager has taken that team as far as he can for whatever reason. Take coleman at fulham who did a great job at fulham but they were not going any higher than they had and not progressing. The club decided they needed a change not because coleman was a bad manager but because they had to refresh the club. Coleman has just been offered the real sociedad job because they have seen what he has done at fulham.

As for new managers coming through there are a lot of managers that you don't see anymore, that have been replaced by up and coming managers. bruce, keane, ince, coppell have all done it. new managers are more and more old players of the highest level. Clubs take into account who they have played for and under. such as the names i have mentioned keane, ince and bruce had all played under sir alex fergusan and because teams know he was a great manager they believe that the players would have learnt something form him amd they would bring it to the club.

Answer 2

It's a very good question, but the answer probably has more to do with why they're sacked than why they're re-hired. Some clubs have very impatient boards who continually sack their managers if results don't reach their expectations. If that is the case, other clubs will pick up on the manager quickly. Really poor managers don't get re-hired. Also, experience and ability to stand pressure will be a big asset in a manager, even if he was fired.

Answer 3

Beats me. Only those wearing the proverbial shoe. But you must also recognize the fact that its one of those jobs where opportunities are limited. Like in musical chairs. If say you are sacked and want to remain in a premiership you can only get another place if someone else is sacked. And it goes on and on. The alternatives are bleak. A drop to the lower leagues comes with an auto pay cut or you may try a foreign country and risk losing your local contacts.

I mean if you're an astronaut working for NASA where do you go if you're axed. But spare a thought for them managers. Capello just won the Liga for Madrid after is it four fruitless years. Battled hard to change an entrenched, failed system that half a dozen coaches couldn't and his reward is a likely walk to the gallows. I just wonder how they remain sane in all this.

Answer 4

on your own admission you are not a great football follower, so i assume you've never played the game to any great degree.

what makes a good manager great, is he can instill hunger and desire in his players.
a manager is a motivator, in the real world you might call him a trouble shooter.
but back to your question, a change is as good as a rest. so to get the best out of your players you have to try fresh things, and sometimes new faces or in your case a new club.

from experience there was very little wrong with the old manager other than familiarity breeding contempt, you will run the extra yard for the new guy, or if transferred you will try harder for your new team mates.

i hope this has helped.

Answer 5

its all about money, fringe benefits an who u no if ya sacked ya not held 2 any previous contracts or clauses so your an asset 2 ya new club eg; poachin or biddin 4 new players aswell as recyclin used up or under performin players in there new club as contracts r renegosiated under a new manager with no come back on the board of directors so no financial penaltys. as 4 young managers people in general dont think they have the experience or maturity 2 carry a club

Answer 6

One way you can look at this is :

1. They have experience at whatever level i.e. Premiership etc
2. They are more than likely ex-pros
3. They have coaching qualifications
4. They live for football
5. They will more than likely end up with heart trouble

All in all it is a very close knit thing football, would you for example want 'Billy Nobody' managing your team or would you want someone who has been in football before? Personally I would want someone who has been in football before . . .

But it does make me laugh when the likes of Sven Goran Ericksson walks back into management with Man City and their supporters are loving it . . . was it not a year ago they and every other England supporter was wanting him out of the country and calling him a useless 'Bleeping Bleep'?

Football its a funny old game!

Answer 7

Good point! To be honest with you, I don't agree with a lot of decisions to sack managers. They can perform well for 5 years and then have a few bad games and get the sack!

Answer 8

experience is everything in football, what u don't see is a top manager getting sacked then going straight back to a top club normally they take a drop to a mediocre team, before hitting the big time again

Answer 9

It may be because some managerial experience is better than no experience at all .Alternatively it may simply reflect the job matching process as it sometimes takes a club many ‘unsuccessful’ attempts to find the ‘right man for the job',after all ,one man doesn't make a team.

Answer 10

that is a very good question one that i have never thought about before! I will be very interested to see the answers on this one!