Barely 10 games into the new Premier League season and there is already three manager changes, catcalls and nudges from the media for a potential fourth.
Brendan Rodgers and Tim Sherwood were fired by Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively while Dick Advocaat has chosen to step down from the Sunderland hot seat and there is humongous pressure on Jose Mourinho following a tough start to the season with Chelsea.
The question is where does this end Football as a whole has become a rather fickle sport with a majority of fans moving towards short term memory. Little importance is given to what a manager or a player is done in the seasons gone by. It is all about what has he done in the last couple of months.
Liverpool’s sacking of Rodgers is a perfect example of the importance clubs give to the short term. This is the man who, just two seasons ago, took Liverpool to the brink of the title and fought until the last day of the season before his talismanic forward was sold.
A blow from which he never truly recovered.The same can be said for Sherwood who, just last season, saved a rather lost Aston Villa from relegation before taking them to the final of the FA Cup.
Mourinho, on the other hand, is a different case. While the football level of his team has dipped, no doubt, it is more his reaction that has acted against him. From blaming the referees to pointing fingers at fellow manager, albeit with tangible reasoning, the ‘Special One’ has advertised a conspiracy theory against himself and the club. A manager needs time, perhaps even three-four seasons, to bed his team in, make changes and bring players in who fit his system.
If time wasn’t afforded, Jurgen Klopp would not be the revolutionary manager that he is now nor would there be a legacy behind the name Sir Alex Ferguson.
Both managers took a few years before they stamped their personality on the teams and took them to unprecedented heights after initial years of indifferent results.
