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There are 92 association football teams in the top four divisions of English football, all of which have a manager (sometimes given the title of head coach) unless the position is currently vacant. The Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) are the only fully professional football leagues in England. The Premier League is the top tier, and consists of 20 clubs at the top of the English football league system, while the remaining 72 clubs are split into three 24 team divisions of the EFL: the Championship, League One and League Two.
May 8 marks the 10th anniversary of Sir Alex Ferguson's announcement that he would retire as Manchester United manager after 27 years in charge at Old Trafford. A decade on and Premier League bosses are now lucky to last 27 weeks.
This week, Javi Gracia was dismissed by Leeds United after 70 days at Elland Road. The former Watford manager became the 14th Premier League head coach to lose their job this season -- a record figure for a single campaign. Graham Potter (Chelsea, 206 days) and Nathan Jones (Southampton, 95 days) have also been hired and fired inside the same season, while Cristian Stellini lasted 31 days as interim manager at Tottenham Hotspur after the dismissal of Antonio Conte in March.
A study by Sky Sports last month revealed that since the first Premier League season in 1992-93, 73 clubs had removed a manager while in the relegation zone and only 31 ended up surviving -- a success rate of 42%. So it is not a guarantee of avoiding the drop.
Football management has always been a precarious profession. Ferguson's longevity was out of the ordinary at Man United, but even when he had to fight for survival after a difficult start to the job, he was still given more than three years to reshape the team before he won his first trophy: the FA Cup in 1990. Such patience with a manager is now unthinkable. After a run of three successive defeats recently, including a 1-0 loss at Real Madrid that confirmed the team's elimination from the Champions League, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his position was safe only because of his previous achievements at the club.
Klopp's comments highlight two crucial elements for a manager's job security: success and owners who know what they're doing. Klopp, like Ferguson before him, and Arsene Wenger, who lasted 22 years at Arsenal between 1996 and 2018, knows that winning offers a manager the greatest protection against losing his job. But so many bosses are now not even given the time to win. If they don't have an instant, transformative effect, their days are numbered. Potter, Jones and Gracia are examples of that, but perhaps they were never cut out to succeed in the first place.
Crystal Palace got it right by hiring Roy Hodgson to replace Patrick Vieira in March. The 75-year-old might have announced his retirement last year but, with him having spent four years as Palace manager until May 2021, the club knew what they were getting and at least had some knowledge of his working methods.
One thing is clear, though. The days of managers such as Ferguson being given the time to overcome a slow start and bad results are long gone. It's now all about winning from day one. And for Allardyce and Leeds, that starts against Premier League leaders Manchester City at the Etihad on Saturday.
Premier League owners are not necessarily a group renowned for their patience but things feel a bit different this season. As we approach the final international break of the year, we are still waiting for the first managerial sacking of the season.
A manager has left his post before November 11 in seven of the last 10 Premier League seasons, with the first sacking of 2022-23 coming after the first four rounds of matches, when Scott Parker was dismissed by Bournemouth on August 30 following a 9-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Alexander: You look at teams like Aston Villa and Wolves who did make changes before and they were fine. You look at a team like Leeds that left it longer and it was too late. When to sack managers is the key thing. We all remember the early ones like Scott Parker last season but generally, the most common time is late October and early November.
Alexander: In two of the first four Premier League seasons, only one manager left during the season. But then you also had a transfer window that was open until the end of March. Back then, it was often easier to change players than it was to change your manager.
While we eagerly await the intense action on the field, let's take a moment to shift our focus to something equally exciting - the luxurious timepieces sported by some of the football players and their managers, both on and off the pitch. In this blog post, I will only explore the stunning watches of Premier League Managers 2023/2024 season. Just like last year, we can expect a display of exquisite timekeeping accessories that reflect the managers' unique personalities and styles.
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Julen Lopetegui during the pre-season friendly match between Celtic and Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 29 July 2023, was seen wearing a Hublot Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA Limited edition.
That compares to 628 days in the Bundesliga, 617 days in La Liga, and just 385 and 384 days in Ligue 1 and Serie A, respectively. It is also longer than the average time that top-flight managers in Portugal or the Netherlands have been in employment.
What is surprising is the number of managers who have been around for two or three seasons. One possible reason for this is that top managers from other leagues might get poached by other clubs after a year or two. Another possible reason is that the current batch of Premier League managers are of a high quality.
Premier League clubs across the board are taking a slightly more long-term approach to recruitment, even those like Leeds or Newcastle United, who were at real risk of relegation when they hired their current managers.
Pep Guardiola's status as the best manager in world football was solidified after Manchester City's run to the treble last season, and they are going all out for a record-breaking fourth successive Premier League title in 2023-24. City have not had everything their own way, though, with a potential six-horse title race currently on the cards as the established order continues to shift in surprising ways.
The favourite to become the first Premier League manager to leave his job this season is Paul Heckingbottom. Sheffield United suffered a 3-1 home defeat on November 25 to Bournemouth, and the reaction from the fans during the game made it perfectly clear how they feel about their team's performances at the moment.
Erik ten Hag isn't far behind and a defeat to Everton on November 26 could see the United manager back at the top of this particular table. The 4-3 defeat to Copenhagen left their Champions League challenge hanging by a thread, their Carabao Cup defence is over, they sit eight points behind Premier League leaders Manchester City and they must likely beat Galatasaray and Bayern Munich to keep their Champions League campaign alive into 2024. A narrow win over Luton Town on November 11 eased a little of the pressure.
The fastest manager ever sacked in the Premier League was Kenny Dalglish, who was ousted at Newcastle United after just two matches into the 1998/99 season. Peter Reid, Bobby Robson, Frank de Boer, Javi Gracia and Scott Parker were all given the boot after just four matches.
Additionally, when placing bets involving "Next Manager" for a club, the word "Permanent" is often included, meaning interim managers are not given consideration for a winning bet. Thus, if a manager is given an "interim" tag as a replacement, the bet remains open until the "interim" tag is removed or a new permanent boss is hired from elsewhere.
Brendan Rodgers, Leicester City: Rodgers delivered a good stretch for Leicester City -- leading them to a first-ever FA Cup win and four top-10 league finishes -- but his fifth year was lacking inspiration. Expected by many to contend for a spot in a European championship, the Foxes now find themselves in serious jeopardy of relegation. Coming out of the international break and losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace -- who are less than a month off of firing Vieira -- proved to be the nail in the coffin for Rodgers. Long-time club coaches Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell have been charged with leading the team going forward.
Graham Potter, Chelsea: Potter's departure -- while not entirely surprising -- is the latest costly change for Chelsea in a period of transition and upheaval. After firing Thomas Tuchel back in September, new club owner American Todd Boehly reportedly doled out 21.5 million to buy out the contracts for Potter and his staff from Brighton. The club confirmed Bruno Saltor will take over as interim manager.
Javi Gracia, Leeds: Desperate to stay out of the relegation zone, Leeds made another managerial change in the final month of the Premier League season. The club hired former England manager Sam Allardyce to take the reins from Gracia with four games remaining.
The great interest in football is not restricted to fans seeking entertainment. Professional sports, in general, and professional football, in particular, have proven to be a fruitful soil for scientific research. Kahn (2000) and Szymanski (2003), for example, argue that professional sports offer interesting data to analyze labor market phenomena. In this respect, the high frequency of data obtained from controlled events is of particular interest. Results of football matches, for example, provide a straightforward and objective measure of performance (Ter Weel 2011). An element in football that has clear analogies both with business and economics is the ongoing debate about the effects of management on the performance of firms. Kuper and Szymanski (2010) question the influence of managers on the performance of professional football teams. In contrast, Anderson and Sally (2013) argue that this influence is non-negligible, as leadership appears to matter for history, in general, and for business, in particular. Pieper et al. (2014) argue, that football managers closely resemble managers in other branches of the economy with respect to personal characteristics, such as age and the capabilities to cope with stress, media attention and a large group of stakeholders.
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