Today Chelsea Football Club unsurprisingly sacked their latest manager after being in charge for only 3 months and a few days. 106 days to be precise after he lead the team to 5 straight defeats in which the team were unable to score a goal equaling the teams worst record since 1912.
Liam Rosenior must have seen it coming a mile off as we all know if you do not get the results you will be moved on very quickly. Rosenior is unlucky number 13 for this season and we still have games to go so that number could still rise.
If you look at the list above 2022/23 was a particularly bad season with a record 26 managers being fired by 11 different clubs. If we go back to 1992/93 and take an average per season until present day we have a figure of 9.5 managers per season who are fired which is nearly half the teams being 20 teams. The problem is a few teams can have 3 different managers in one season so the performances will reflect the instability and desperation.
Tottenham and Nottingham Forest have been a proper merry go round this season and look where they are in the points table being 18th and 16th respectively. As an outsider looking in as a sports fan this makes no sense in how the clubs employ their managers.
A football club is a business involving professional high end athletes that are expected to perform to a certain level. The manager and the back room staff are employed to get the best out of their players by whatever means they deem necessary. Surely with that in mind how can a club fire 3 managers in one season because commonsense tells you whoever is hiring the managers has also failed and should be fired as well.
At some point there has to be accountability by everyone involved in the hiring process because anyone would have told you Rosenior was not the right candidate for the job. He was the convenient option for Chelsea removing him from another club the owners own. Convenient as in cheap as they would not have to pay compensation to the other club for stealing their manager as they own that club.
When we look at the managers on the move it tends to be the same faces each time and this you would think would be a red flag. When Graham Potter moved from Brighton who were doing very well under his guidance you just knew he made a huge mistake going to Chelsea. Thomas Frank left his managerial role at Brentford who were also ding well and then failed at Tottenham. Why leave a set up that you are having success in risking your career at another club that has underlying issues. I would call it the height of stupidity and these managers suddenly go from being successful to failures all because of ego and chasing the dollars.
The problem many of the clubs have when they change the managers so often is that they buy players to suit a certain managers playing style and a new manager arrives with another game plan suiting different players. There are quite a few clubs in the English Premier League that we could call a mess and this starts at the top and filters down with crazy player purchases and idiotic managerial appointments.
Very few of the football clubs make any profit and it is very clear why they do not due to how they are being run. If these were normal businesses they would have gone broke long ago or whoever was running them would have been replaced. This does highlight how ignorant the club owners are in running a successful football team that makes a profit.