No Premier League managers have been sacked so far this season. Assuming all the managers survive this weekend, which seems likely, it will be eighteen years since we have had to wait so long for the first sacking. There have been only two Premier League seasons in which the first sacking has been later.
Last season twelve managers got the boot and three had already gone before they had been able to put their signature on the club Christmas card.
No Premier League managers have been sacked so far this season. Assuming all the managers survive this weekend, which seems likely, it will be eighteen years since we have had to wait so long for the first sacking. There have been only two Premier League seasons in which the first sacking has been later.
Last season twelve managers got the boot and three had already gone before they had been able to put their signature on the club Christmas card.
This season even the dread vote of confidence seems to be missing. Even so, Robbie Savage thinks that the sacking season will start soon and he has identified the first candidate.
Dismissals cost clubs a money, particularly when the manager’s numerous ‘hangers on’ also have to be compensated. The replacement one wants is not always available and the improvement in performance a new manager brings out about is often short lived.
So perhaps sanity has at last prevailed. Even so, some Arsenal fans continue to call for Arsene Wenger to be replaced with Sam Allardyce even mentioned as a candidate.