Morning all.
With Arsenal now a fairly stable club, goings-on elsewhere throughout this summer might well become a staple of the blog. It’s not that I necessarily want to write about … I dunno … Chelsea parting ways with yet another manager, it’s just stuff like that could well be the big story of the day.
*Checks news*
Well, whaddya know?! Mauricio Pochettino is gone, by ‘mutual consent’. Chelsea changing managers is just one of those things you can bank on. Like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Like Maroon5 making a terrible song. Like John Terry being a massive bell-end.
They had ended the season pretty well, that huge collection of players they bought at random was beginning to look semi-functional at times, and they finished 6th – ensuring European football for next season. But obviously things behind the scenes weren’t great, and some reporting suggested that a divide over Pochettino’s reluctance to hire a set-piece coach was part of the reason he got let go. Despite the fact they hired one from Brentford, the club who supply 98% of all the set-piece coaches currently working in the game. They have a lab where they grow them, I think.
It was quite an interesting season for managers, in that fewer than normal seemed to be sacked during the campaign. Sheffield United brought back Chris ‘Sandwich’ Wilder to replace Paul Heckingbottom in December, the same month that Nottingham Forest canned Steve Cooper to bring in Nuno Espirito Santo. Beyond that though, it was pretty calm. Whether this shows a more nuanced approach from club owners, or if it’s because sacking a manager is very expensive in the PSR era, I’m not sure. I suspect the latter though.
Pochettino’s departure comes not long after Roberto de Zerbi was let go by Brighton, and I have to say, with those two men on the market, I’d be a bit worried if I were Erik ten Hag. There’s a cup final this weekend and I suspect we could easily see the end of his…
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