Originally Posted by
AlexLeicester
The Premier League is a foreign world to me. I have zilch interest in what goes on. It seems to be a playground for ridiculously wealthy people. I stick with the League - currently, sadly, the bottom tier.
Three or 6 months is far too short a timescale to prove your ability, and it is also sometimes false. A new manager will occasionally turn a team around for a few months before the rot returns; Steve Davis had an amazing year, and on the strength of that probably deserved a longer contract (thankfully he didn't get one).
It's a job. These guys have to prove their tactical ability, their communication skills, their diplomacy dealing with Boards and owners, their man management skills with colleagues. They also have to manage young lads who've only ever had one ambition since the age of seven or eight; social skills have gone by the board; academic success has been largely forgotten; and all they really want to do to relax is go down the pub. That final sentence is, to me, the killer: who would want to manage that lot?
Rolling one-year with the knowledge that the wrong choice will be expensive, is about right; success could then see a better contract.