Managerial Merry go-round

Usually the summer months after the season has finished is the time for players to be turning down new contract and creating speculation that they are to move onto big and greater things. However this summer it has been the turn of the managers and how they are moving clubs ever so quickly. A true representation of the current football climate that managerial changes are now as regular as player transfers.

The Premier League has seen a radical overhaul, less than a month after the normal season has finished Arvam Grant and Sven Goran Eriksson two of the big first season success stories being moved along to allow for greater success. You tell me if you can get an average middle table side higher than 8th, with a new manager who has being doing that for years, not sure we'll see much change there. And sacking a manager who did what no Chelsea manager has done and get them to a Champions league Final only to be denied by a petulant and selfish Nicolas Anelka. Anelka didn't only look like he wanted to be there but the way he reacted to the penalty miss was shocking and a true showing of someone who has succeeded so much to early in his career.

Oddly enough for Chelsea this summer there search for a new manager has not bared any fruit as yet. Usually they are able to draft people in with there amazing wealth. Maybe for once Abrowich's poison chalice has warned everyone off and that there will be no takers for this unpredictable post. I'm sure however the winning manager from this year's Euro 2008 championships, a manager with nothing to prove in international football will take the post, my tip is Luis Philip Scolari.

Success seems to be a common reason for being sacked in management currently, with Nigel Pearson being axed at Southampton. After keeping the club afloat when it seemed certain they were going the same way as Leeds United, Nottingham Forest and Bradford City. But to underline the utter contempt that the club is being run they have appointed a manager who hasn't finished his deal at his current club and who hasn't even agreed to sign as yet. A purely stupid move by a club who are really hitting there lowest point at this point in time. Not to keep nit picking but this man is hardly going to out shine Pearson and i predict a very similar season to last season, unfortunately this man is no magician like Pearson.

In League 2 it is nice to see Peter Taylor back in football league management, however like so many managers it looks like the money has got to him. he had a super team at Stevenage, a team who could surprise many in the Blue Square Premier next season. It was a shame to see Paul Lambert leave at the end of the season, he has done a fantastic job there, making a Carling Cup Semi-final in 2006 and then the play-off semi this season, however when you know its time to go then you just go, no questions asked. And seeing that he hasn't found a new club to soon after leaving shows it was a heart felt good-bye and he hadn't received a better offer.

With plenty of the summer still to go the player transfer saga is sure to start bubbling, the most interesting of the lot will be to see how many Chelsea players move on to Jose Mourinho's new club Inter Milan, one of which I hope is Frank Lampard, I've never been his biggest fan but I think to be truely appreciated as a great player he needs to stretch his wings to abroad and I think Mourinho is the man to help him.