Sir Alex Ferguson: It's a cruel, cruel world
Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson has said that it is not easy to be a manager and termed it as "an unfair industry".
Roy Keane, the former captain of Manchester United was sacked by Ipswich Town 2 days ago, and the latest manager to get the axe is Liverpool’s Roy Hodgson. West Ham's manager, Avram Grant is also one of the candidates to lose his job, while Carlo Ancelotti
at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Houllier of Aston Villa are both in hot waters at the moment. Even though both have received backing from their respected club owners, they are still walking on thin ice and immediate results would determine their future. Sir Alex’s own
son, Darren Ferguson, was also sacked from Preston, after which Ferguson recalled 3 players on loan at the championship club.
The Manchester United boss said that the football industry is not fair to the managers, and they should be given enough time to enforce their own brand of football in a club before being shown the door. He said that the only reason a manager is hired at
any club is to allow him to make the team play the way he likes, but if he is not given proper backing financially and otherwise how can he make a team do well?
Ferguson said: "When http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 chose Roy Hodgson, they did it on the back of his great experience at different clubs. But we are in a results industry. If you get a few bad results, that can happen... I can't explain it and I don't think there is any point
trying... Anyone who has any common sense understands the kind of football we have nowadays and the kind of pressure we are put under."
There are some exceptions in the Premier League like Sir Alex at United, Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger and Everton boss, David Moyes, who have been in their jobs for a long time. Other than these three, the life of a manager in the game is becoming shorter
every season.
Ferguson said that the new age club owners are very impatient and do not understand the game’s finer details. He admitted that results are everything in the game, but there are other aspects of the game to be taken into consideration as well.
The Scotsman said that it was a whole different time when the ownership of a club used to stay in the family and was passed onto generations. He added that those were the people who had the interest of the club in the long term at heart rather than just
focusing on short term plans.
The United boss said that owners coming from places like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/United-States-c3034, Middle East and other parts of Asia do not understand the game like traditional English club owners did.
Ferguson said that the manager is supposed to be the man with the final word at the club, rather than the men holding the cheque book. He added that it is true that the game has become much more commercialized and the demands of the game have changed, but
that does not change the fact that everything revolves around performance on the field.
Referring to the owners of Manchester United, Ferguson said that the Glazer’s are a good example of club owners. He added that even though they are from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/America-c38390, they have tried to maintain and preserve the integrity and history of the club, and that is
the way it should be. The 63 year old ended by saying that he hopes that the mentality of club owners would change over time, as the status quo is not at all beneficial to the game.
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