It occurred to me that I may have never seen so many managers either flagged up as either available or could become available in my life. One might also imagine that being a coach at a decent level these days was much like being about in the 1960s in London where one could walk out of a job before lunch and walk into another that afternoon. Maybe I’ve entirely misjudged the atmosphere, but going back 5 years or more the managers permanently in the move were the likes of Sam Allardyce, Tony Pulis, and Steve McClaren, and when the music stopped characters like Iain Dowie were left without a seat.
These days the life expectancy for even elite-level managers is tight. Some fail to grasp this – the life expectancy is built-in, like the small electrical items from a pound shop. Only a few teams in each division actually win anything worth winning. Everyone else is using air-pods that cost only marginally more to manufacture than the packaging they are sold in.
Time will tell but is a debt-riddled Tottenham, who spat out Pochettino and Mourinho really perceived as a blue-chip side these days? One reporter assures us that a new coach would be in situ before the end of the season, then when that expired, it was before the end of the month.
Does nobody want to be fed transfers from a spreadsheet, or play in the wooden spoon of European football?
