Is it him or the clubs?

We give a lot of credit to the role of manager / coach. It’s clear there are some outstanding ones (good and bad), as in every profession, but aren’t the rest just basically all doing the same thing? Carry on doing the job until either the team has a run of poor form, a star player leaves or the board discover some “ambition”. Their effect on results is probably nowhere near the immediate impact of the recruitment, physios, sports science and data analysts, let alone the players. A manager might have to put all that together, to an extent, but in the end that’s what it is. The clubs just have their periods of cyclical performance below the glass ceiling of the mega-rich. Kind of like life, really.

Posted By: APB on December 6th 2018 at 12:24:24

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Reading sack Clement (Other Football) - SCC 28, Dec 6, 10:30:53
- He always worked better alongside La Frenais (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Dec 6, 12:30:43
  - Boom Boom (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 6, 13:48:00
- how many times it that (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 6, 11:55:38
  - Is it him or the clubs? (Other Football) - APB, Dec 6, 12:24:24
    - He has failed as a manager at every club (Other Football) - norway, Dec 6, 13:33:07
      - Or maybe bad choice of clubs? (n/m) (Other Football) - APB, Dec 6, 16:14:37
        
        Possibly... but most managers take on jobs because of previous failings there (Other Football) - norway, Dec 6, 16:18:00
    - Attributes proportional blame (n/m) (Other Football) - CauldRon, Dec 6, 13:19:05
    - This, 100% (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 6, 13:10:28

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