How long should a manager be given ?

Redmidland

[cite]Posted By: Happy Valley[/cite]Redmidland, I think you have put your finger on it. The problem is that too many clubs have it in their 'business plans' that they will get into Europe/ get promotion. They bet the kitchen sink to do so. Now there are six places in Europe, but if twelve clubs and trying to get there and their managers have promised to do so or have been encouraged by owners who are dazzled by the prospect it is going to end in tears for some. The first place the disappointed owners are going to look for retribution is the manager.
We have many clubs falling into the hands of foreign owners, who think that winning something is really easy. Hicks and Gillet must have thought that all their Christmasses had come at once when Liverpool won the Big Cup in the first season of their ownership. Time told that it wasn't always going to be like that. For every 'Glazers' there are many more 'Hicks and Gillets'. What I would like to know is whether clubs with new owners (foreign or otherwise) change their managers more often than clubs with a stable ownership.

Happy Valley yep agree, my concern is the bit that says they - and I quote "want a younger and more energetic manager"!! So is Alex Ferguson 41 and running aroung like a 'gazelle'....no course not...how short sighted!!! Blackburn owners now deserve what they get....if it all goes 'tits up' they only have themselves to blame!!

kings hill addick

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]In answer to the original question, it's different at every club and every situation isn't it.

Look at the managers here after Dowie (since we don't know why he was sacked)......

You must be the only one that doesn't know.

Scoham

[cite]Posted By: kings hill addick[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]In answer to the original question, it's different at every club and every situation isn't it.

Look at the managers here after Dowie (since we don't know why he was sacked)......

You must be the only one that doesn't know.

What was the real reason then?

ThreadKiller

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: kings hill addick[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]In answer to the original question, it's different at every club and every situation isn't it.

Look at the managers here after Dowie (since we don't know why he was sacked)......

You must be the only one that doesn't know.

What was the real reason then?

i don't know either

Off_it

I think only the clique know.

I don't know.

Granpa

The main problem now is the Premiership. To be in it now is so valuable, and bear in mind that in any league table there have to be Clubs at the bottom, Owners/Directors go into panic mode. In order to answer this question properly you have to consider so many things, because each Club's circumstances and ambitions will vary so much.If you take our current situation, there is no point in outing the Manager and expecting some genius to want to take over basically a Club in trouble. RM is quite rightly in my opinion understanding that with good investment we have a lot of the things in place to return to the promised land, the next few days will tell us how hopeful we can all be.