The gates to the managers graveyard is well and truly open. It is that time of the season in the Premier League, when the club managements having had their share of turkey and wine over the festive season, start the “whine” . Some do it in drunken stupor, some as a hangover and some for the fun of it.

Maresca got the boot and the ball rolling, and now Ruben Amorim bites dust.

Amorim asks for  it and get it

Amorim’s sacking was always coming, and it came. It is sad that club management is in the hands of men with very little clue of the sport. It is a malaise that seems to be a modern-day phenomenon. Tottenham and Chelsea are the other two who sit in this bracket and it is inevitable that this list grows as revenue, bottom lines, and fancy numbers on an accountant’s book loom large over the sport.
Ruben Amorim must have seen it coming. Nothing else explains his outburst a day before the sack came. He almost dared the Manchester United board, and they, of all the boards in the world, are not the ones to hold back. Even if it came at the expense of sending the club down another spiral, the Manchester United owners seem to enjoy this brawl.

After Amorim who??

In my last piece in reaction to Maresca’s sacking , I had included Amorim in the list of the next few casualties. Rather sadistically I would say one down and a few to go. The season of sacking has just kicked off, and the likes of Nuno Espirito Sanchez, Rob Edwards et al are sitting ducks.

I still have the feeling that at least one of Arne Slot, Thomas Frank, and Eddie Howe may not last the season. It is sheer madness out there, and there is no cure to it. 

It does not look good at all when art is sacrificed at the altar of bookkeeping. There is more to come in the next few months, Pep Guardiola might not be around next season, and by that time, the Premier League will look like something that has changed its skin.

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