Asim wrote:
Yet in their statement they claim the decision is to help them achieve their long term goals as a club.
If you won't give a manager long term backing, you aint going to achieve any long term goals.
We had a manager who should have been given long term backing. We should have chained him to Stamford Bridge. Instead we ran him off. I've said it before, I'll say it again - that was one of the dumbest decisions in football history.
We've had another manager who deserved the same backing. But he was only a short term appointment and wouldn't take the job permenantly.
None of the other managers have deserved that long term backing.
Ferguson has been given long term backing because he's deserved it. He's an exceptional manager and has proved it throughout his career. That's why he's been given that backing. Same with Wenger, although the situation is different. Avram Grant, Scolari, Ancelotti simply haven't shown that they deserve anything like that level of backing. In Ancelotti's two years at Chelsea he simply hasn't shown enough to warrant keeping the job.