We have been seeing things happening in the soccer world. The most shocking is how managers are being sacked. Even world-class managers are finding it difficult to stay for years in teams. The reality is, it wasn't like this in the past.
In an interview yesterday, Mourinho said it is impossible for a manager to match the 20 years reigns that Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson got in their career. This is a bitter truth.
In the early years of Sir Alex's career, he also had some worst seasons, and bad time managing Manchester United, but they gave him the support and time he needed. Mourinho said Premier League bosses are now forced to 'fight for their job every day'' Because every match you lose move you closer to being sacked.
The former Man United and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was appointed as the Tottenham manager when Pochettino was sacked after having a decent five-year stay in Tottenham, and took them to Champions League final just last season. Unai Emery, Arsenal boss also lost his job because of Arsenal poor performances run this season.
Manchester United are still finding it difficult to get a good replacement for Alex Ferguson that spent 27 good years in the team. Ole Gunner is still struggling to find his feet in United. Who knows what might happen to him as well. Personally, I think the cause of managers being sacked in every little error is that all club want to be in the business. They want to be among the top. Fans are not like before. No more endurance. Everyone wants the victory now.
Mourinho talks to a reporter, and here are his words:
“Twenty years in a club? I don’t think it’s possible,” he told reporters.
“Modern life, new technologies, social media – I think everything has an influence, even people’s mentality, faster relations, getting tired easily, so many things that are changing.
“Not [just] football but [these things] are changing the world and the perception of things that I think Wenger was the last ‘man/one’. It’s a bad thing for us.
“We have to adapt and we have to try to prove that we are the man for the job. We have to fight for our job every day.
“I think the times where people know the job is going to be mine for X amount of years [are gone]. You have to fight for your job every day. Not just with the football results but with everything you do in the club.
“I think it’s normal. It happens in society in so many areas. I can imagine even yourself in your newspaper and your radio you have to not just sleep on what you did previously.
“I think you have to show every day you have that you are the guy for the job. I think it’s just life.”
“I don’t think about that,” he said. “I think about trying to show I am the man for the job every day.”