Patience is a Virtue in the Premier League

Standing by your manager is now measured best practice in soccer, proof of the all-important long-term idea. But it isn’t for every football coach or every club. Football fans can get Premier League Tickets on our website on exclusively discounted prices.

The Premier League was only some weeks ancient when, in the middle of a silent Saturday evening, Watford visible that it had gone its manager, Javi Gracia. He would be replaced, the club said, by his native Quique Sánchez Flores, who had himself been fired by Watford three years earlier.

This was, in the eyes of most viewers, the insanity of modern soccer boiled down to its very spirit. Javi Gracia had, only a few months earlier, led Watford to the F.A. Cup final. He had, it was approximately decided, done a sensible job at one of England’s top-flight makeweights.

Watford owned by Italy Pozzo family and controlled according to a model in which the manager is just a worker, not some gentle of all-powerful original leader raised defendant of short-termism.

It was not just that recent results had been unfortunate, but that they had been an extension of a fall that started months ago. Some fans originate the decision tender, some less so some thought it was correct, and some did not.

The Premier League does not do short-termism quite the way it used to Javi Gracia remains the only manager to have been fired so far this season. Given that we are almost a third of the way through the season, and have tolerated two international breaks usually the best time to make a change.

The Premier League seems, at long last, to have learned tolerance. Managers still face times of conflict Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United, Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham, Everton’s Marco Silva and, now, Arsenal’s Unai Emery but it is telling that all have continued. When Southampton lost by nine goals at home to Leicester last weekend, the first thing the club did was tell its players and staff that Ralph Hassenhüttl the team’s Austrian coach, was safe.

This is, generally a good thing. Regularly changing managers does not work. The clubs that succeed are the ones with a clear dream and steadiness in their methods. Often, a poor run of form will patch-up itself disappearing to the mean, people wilier than I call it without the involvement of the H.R. department.

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