Does a football manager give a damn if he gets sacked?

CantGetNoSleep

Just reading an interview with Ancelotti, he seems unsure if Roman will want to keep him.

Looking at people like Benitez, Sven and a few others, they have really had a great time of it the last few years with their massive payoffs?

If I was Ancelotti I would only love to get sacked - get your contract paid up and find a new job handily

Seems to me to be an example of how ridiculous it is to give managers 3/4 year contracts when they are unproven at a club imo

Blatter

Ancelloti is proven at the club. He won the double last year, if that's not proven I don't know what is.

Paully D

Very rarely.

In some cases like Benitez at Liverpool, even as an outsider looking in you could see how much the club, fans and city meant to him so he definitely cared IMO. However, then you look at him at Inter, he didn't get on with the owner and would have loved taking his compensation package from them IMO.

For the most part the managerial game is very much a ''jobs for the boys'' setup. Look at the likes of Dowie, Hart, etc. They've been sacked so many times picking up large severance packages but keep getting jobs. They make a living from being sacked.

So, to summarise I think that in rare cases managers do care, similar to players. But for the most part it's no different to a player leaving a club - once the money's there they don't give a flying ****.

DB10

As much the owners fault really for giving ridiculous contracts.

Alan Pardew got a 5 year contract a few months back. If hes still there this time next year I would be astounded.

Paully D

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Seems to me to be an example of how ridiculous it is to give managers 3/4 year contracts when they are unproven at a club imo

What's the alternative though?

If the manager goes on to do well but is on a short term or rolling contract then he'll be picked up by someone else who'll offer him a secure contract on more money and the club won't get anything for him. They'll be back to where they started as a new manager comes in with his ideas, shapes his own squad etc.

There's not many, if any, managers around these days who'll work on a short term or rolling contract and it's difficult to criticise that considering their family, kids etc. It wouldn't be fair on them.

3 years is an ideal contract IMO. It gives a club security and doesn't cost the majority of them too much in compensation if it doesn't work out (unless your a Mourinho etc who's on massive money).

Paully D

DB10 wrote: »

As much the owners fault really for giving ridiculous contracts.

Alan Pardew got a 5 year contract a few months back. If hes still there this time next year I would be astounded.

He's working to pay off his gambling debts though. He'll be there for a while yet. To be fair to him, he's also doing a good job. If he gets a bit of money to spend in the summer they'll be mid-table/top half certainties next season.