In the Premier League, is it possible to be a manager anymore?

Question

With all the BILLIONS of pounds being poured into some teams, do managers even have a say in things? Look at Keegan and Curbishley; two quality managers forced out by incompetent boards. Will Mark Hughes be anything more than a puppet at Man City? I don't know about you lot, but I'm getting sick of top flight football. There are too many complaints to list, besides too much money being involved. Do you see my point? I'm happy going to the local conference league matches every week; it's affordable, local, and the players are English who give 100% with no moaning.

Answer 1

all i can say im proud to be a middlesbrough supporter and too peoples names i will mention is > Steve Gibson - Gareth Southgate. thank you.

Answer 2

good question i dont think there is even the top 4 managers r getting sacked

Answer 3

It does seem that the new foreign owners prefer to have a coach so that they can purchase the players themselves, and noticeably two english managers resigned in protest of that option. In europe this has been common practise for years, but the owners/ presidents are normally accomplished in football enough to buy good players, problem now is the billionaires don't just want to own the clubs they want to run them as well and after the likes of Wenger and Fergie retire this will probably be common practise in the EPL.

Answer 4

I was discussing this today at work and agree completely.

I dislike this lust of money in the Premiership at the moment, contracts are disrespected and managers undermined. Mark Hughes will have to be very careful indeed.

The amounts of money being bandied about in regards to the new Man City owners purchasing all the top boys in the Premiership is just absurd. With Abromovich, the Glazers and the Abu Dhabi Group- they want who THEY want playing for THEIR teams. Football, premier league anyway, is now a plaything for billionaires and woe betide us when they tire of it all.

Arsenal! NO TO THE FAT RUSSIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!