The sackings of many managers on occasions borders on the ridiculous and highlights the pressures and insecurities in this precarious of professions, where the managers place can be a lonely place to be.

Any new manager at any club will be looking to stamp his own identity on the club, as the departing manager on most occasions will be eventually forgotten.

The difference between football and normal industry is the emotion, an emotion which the Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich fails to control, which is highlighted with his panache for sacking managers, but it would be advisable never to hit the trigger too hastily, yes Chelsea have been successful but some would say that Abramovich’s spending power has bailed them out. Being answerable to oneself has created the long Chelsea legacy of sacked managers.

So who motivates the motivators? Motivation comes from within the inner drive to succeed, a belief in their coaching abilities and man management skills, they have to enshrine themselves with self-reliability and self-trust.

Enveloped in a manager’s leadership skills is the need to stay strong mentally with a strong resilience, and the will to bounce back from adversity. The manager has to unify and inspire his players and staff, to generate a confidence within the club. Some managers use success strategies from other successful managers, while developing their own managerial acumen in a club where a manager’s philosophy is the need to control everything he can at a club and to give 100% in the manager’s domain.

Not of the Manager’s Domain

It has been noted that it is time to ban chairmen from sacking managers during a season, in response, should a manager render the sack following a winless streak of results, football is a results industry and if that requirement is of a negative take, then the only option is to dispense with the manager. A club cannot be allowed to derail without action being taken, managers are highly rewarded with lucrative contracts and if contract termination follows, the managers in some cases take up employment with another club quickly, their pockets from the top flight, are laden with millions of pounds in most cases and the millions for a large number of dismissed managers are of a nonplussing nature.

Many managers end their tenure with poor management, but wait pending the huge financial rewards that follow for failure, clubs can be left in decline, with a departing managers reputation tarnished, but a return route is mostly viable in the managers domain of huge rewards.

A Brexit Landscape

The landscape for incoming foreign managers to transition into English football will be restricted due to the new referee on the block, Mr Brexit, with a new set of regulations befitting of the Brexit reputation. A quick scan reveals that managers will need to have managed in the world’s top leagues for two consecutive years or three seasons in the last five years previously. Another route is through the international arena managing a national team for five years under the umbrella of the top fifty countries, this will earn the qualification termed, GBE entry, entry to our shores, paddle in hand.

On landing a manager’s position having passed through all the legal jargon, the sack later will become inevitable, back to square one perhaps. Aspiring managers, coaches in the outer reaches, Bulgaria, Romania, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, the list can go on, will face a road blockage, with many not meeting the criteria, no entry. Windows of opportunities will open for more English managers to showcase in England’s pyramid system, a smelling of the Brexit roses on increasing the numbers of English managers will become of more relevance if within the Premiership where the golden route is to manage England at some stage, a Three Lions dream to be fulfilled.

Mr Motivation, The Drone

Jose Mourinho’s new assistant at the footballing capital of AS Roma is the articulate one commissioned by the special one, the flying saucer of the drone to screen the AS Roma training sessions onto a big screen, MEM film tickets not required, just a coaching lecture from Jose on how to motivate oneself from the drone findings. Rumour has it that Jose wants to house the players in a replica Portmeirion, styled the Italian way type complex from the Prisoner series, with the drone’s partner in tactics, the bubble, Jose’s watching you ‘Come in Number 3’, Luke Shaw?