Piece Of Cake For Big Boys
Is being a top four Premier League manager that difficult? We´re talking about Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool here.
Could it be the most overpaid job of all time? Do the top managers get too much respect for their achievements?
Roman Abramovich is paying new Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari an incredible GBP 5.5 million a year in the pursuit of a Champions League title and will back him with a war chest not witnessed since William IV sent the Duke of Wellington off to Waterloo.
Sure, the dead ringer for French Connection NYPD detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle´s got a decent CV, having landed the World Cup in 2002 with Brazil. But with Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo in your side surely even Gordon Brown would manage to muster that trophy?
Four years later Scolari took Portugal to the finals of Euro 2004, and so he should have done, as they played all of their matches at home in front of a fervent Lisbon crowd. He also had players like Rui Costa, Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo at his disposal. But he still couldn´t win it, Scolari´s odds-on men incredibly blew it against the Greeks.
Forget about the manager, when it comes to our Premiership it´s the side with the best players in the league that wins it. Despite Sir Alex Rednose turning on the hairdryer and throwing half time cups of tea at the dressing room walls it was the fact that he had a budget to land the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand in the first place that United pipped Chelsea to the 2008 title.
United will have the best players again next season… what are you waiting for? Steam into Bodog´s current odds of 6/5 for United to claim the 2009 crown, it´s a chicken dinner.
No, the truly difficult Premier League manager jobs lie with those men who operate on a fraction of the budgets of United, Liverpool and Chelsea. Aston Villa´s Martin O´Neill, Portsmouth´s Harry Redknapp, Everton´s David Moyes, new Man City boss (ex-Blackburn) Mark Hughes, they are the guys who deserve the real credit.
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