Susanna

So you have Ruben Amaran at Man United, you have Xabi Alonso at Real Madrid, Wilfred Nancy at Celtic.

is that there's a lot of pressure and friction between perhaps what a manager slash head coach wants to be, what the owners of the club want them to be and what the players want as well.

And you're seeing a lot of player power and pressure from above.

And this is all kind of coming together in one big ball of action.

stress and the managers are kind of falling victims and they're getting sacked because if you're not winning games or if you're not winning games in the manner that the head honchos think you're supposed to be there's very little patience yeah um speaking of amram we were chatting to someone out on the streets this morning um and i can't remember what he had to say so let's play the clip

So you reckon it's almost like the players were feeling a bit stressed, a bit confined, and then once they have a room to breathe, they can then play better?

That actually is...

Yeah, that actually is kind of interesting because it often feels like they use results to justify why they're letting go of someone.

A total scapegoat.

Yeah, often when you look at it, you think, oh, the results aren't that bad.

As you said, this is just like, vibes aren't working.

I feel like Arne Slott at Liverpool is a good example of that this season because he was under a lot of pressure in the All-Star and Liverpool had some really poor results.

But you just won the Premier League last season.

You couldn't sack him, and they didn't.

And now you're kind of seeing they're still not as good as they were last season, but they've got out of that extreme funk.

Would sacking him have made things worse?

Or would they have got out of that funk anyway?

Like, who's to say?

But then you have situations like at Tottenham, which is obviously my club, that I watch them more closely than I would watch the likes of Liverpool or Man United.

So I'm seeing them week in, week out.