Why do managers come as a package?

[Indy 3,286]

I just ask this because most managers get sacked along with coaches and when employed again they go after the same staff! Why? if you are not successeful with them the first time round why try them again?

[Salopian 1]

For at least two reasons:

• There is so much off-pitch activity -travel, hotels, transfers, publicity, shirts and strip, press conferences, academy, etc. He doesn''t do all these things, but he needs to be consulted and involved. The result is that the manager can''t be at all training sessions, and he needs someone, or two, he can leave to do this daily and necessary work. Clearly he will entrust these tasks to people who have shown before that they are reliable and have much of his own approach at heart. He has worked with them before and knows what contributions they can make. Their relationships in the past have been congenial and effective, so why change?

 

• It''s a lonely job being a manager - dealing in transfers, planning strategy, selecting teams, disciplining players, encouraging players, etc. Again, he needs someone he trusts to offer advice, act as sounding boards to his ideas, and even to contradict him, etc.

 

In the end it boils down to sympathy and trust. You can''t afford to risk being lumbered with someone you cannot trust.

[Al 0]

[quote user="Salopian"]

For at least two reasons:

• There is so much off-pitch activity -travel, hotels, transfers, publicity, shirts and strip, press conferences, academy, etc. He doesn''t do all these things, but he needs to be consulted and involved. The result is that the manager can''t be at all training sessions, and he needs someone, or two, he can leave to do this daily and necessary work. Clearly he will entrust these tasks to people who have shown before that they are reliable and have much of his own approach at heart. He has worked with them before and knows what contributions they can make. Their relationships in the past have been congenial and effective, so why change?

 

• It''s a lonely job being a manager - dealing in transfers, planning strategy, selecting teams, disciplining players, encouraging players, etc. Again, he needs someone he trusts to offer advice, act as sounding boards to his ideas, and even to contradict him, etc.

 

In the end it boils down to sympathy and trust. You can''t afford to risk being lumbered with someone you cannot trust.

[/quote]Virtually all of those should be the responsibility of the club not the manager. Otherwise you throw everything away when the manager leaves & the new manager then brings in his own people and his own players. How ridiculous is that?How costly & how wasteful? What other business would operate in that way? The manager should just be responsible for coaching the first team playing squad. Then when he leaves the back room, scouting etc all remains in place and can carry on developing rather than the club starting again. This is the model West Brom use and it seems to be working pretty well.

[crabbycanary 2]

But then the club would need a ''manager'' to look after all these other posts, whilst the Manager got on with coaching. Why pay two people to be managers?

[Hannibal II 0]

Its a pretty similar situation with women most of them come with a rather annoying accompaniment of friends and family.