Managerial Madness

So Pep Guardiola has decided to go to Bayern Munich, thus rejecting Chelsea Chav FC’s multi-million pound offer.

Good for him. When he decided to go back into football, the Premiership was agog with the speculation as to which club he would go to. After all he did praise the English game and its fans, so the natural assumption was that he was heading to these shores.

The only question remained: which club? Clearly a man of his talents would only be interested in a “big” club, so not for him the likes of Reading, Villa, Wigan, etc…

No, say all of the pundits, he should be going to such clubs as Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool or maybe even Arsenal. Man U was out, Fergusson is in no hurry to go as he is enjoying his status as Teflon Don. Liverpool are re-building and are very conscious of money. They don’t want to give the current manager a bit more time. It is my opinion that they have learned that the path to success doesn’t involve sacking managers every few weeks; a lesson that some clubs have yet to learn.

Arsenal could have been a contender, but the board there still have faith in Arsene Wenger, despite the lack of trophies.

So this leaves Chelsea. They are different reports on how much money Guardiola was offered, but the one thing that he knew he couldn’t get from Abranovich, is complete control, so he declined…

The Premiership’s loss is the Bundesliga gain. Good luck to him.

 

 

What is Southampton up to? They have sacked the manager that has returned them to top flight football and got them out of the bottom 3. They are on a good run at the moment and the club thanks Nigel Atkins by replacing him with an Argentinian that doesn’t speak English…

Not only does this show that there is no loyalty in football at any level any more, but this does nothing for the national game as this shows that clubs at all levels would bring a foreigner in rather than nurturing home-grown talent…