Quote:   Thanks for your input.

 

   What you mentioned is very surprising after LONG time Arsenal Manager/ Coach Arsène Wenger came up in a discussion.  

 

 

 

  

You are welcome!

 

Wenger is indeed a "strange" case in european football: he's been the manager for around 20 years at Arsenal and has won a lot of trophies in his early years. He's very good at developing young players but he has failed to win anything relevant since 10-12 years and that's why many Arsenal fans are divided between wanting him to go or having him staying there.

 

The board has always confirmed him because he never pushed for big signings (in european football you pay transfer fees to buy players and they are getting more and more crazy every year) and so the club never had financial problems but the fans are getting tired of never winning. 

 

The other longtime manager in PL was Alex Ferguson which spent more than 20 years at Manchester United and retired 3 years ago. 

 

But those are exceptions, on average managers change quite often (see the data in my previous post) especially in teams that fight to not be relegated in lower divisions or that aim at winning right away.

The thing is that it's less complicated to change the manager (hoping in a different outcome) rather than replacing a significant amount of players as transfer fees are high and young players are often not ready to perform or difficult go attract if you are not a good enough club. Not that changing managers often is really smart as stability is important as well. Best teams keep the same manager for years.

 

It's a crazy world, I've seen more than once the same team changing 3-4 manager in a season (usually doesn't happen in England but in less patient countries like Italy, Spain and others )

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