5 Managers who have only this year to save their jobs
Pep and Pellegrini are walking on fine lines this seasonSlow and steady will get you there, but who has the time? Fast and consistent; that’s what wins the races in the new age. We want our food, our cars and successes in life to be fast and our downloads to be even faster. That’s human nature.When it comes to the footballing world, the owners want a return on their investment. They don’t want to meander through the city traffic to reach the highway of success. They just want to jet away. Sometimes when you see the amounts laid out by them, you might even they have a right to demand to.So to whom do every owner’s eyes turn to? It’s the managers, the directors of their grand scheme of things. It’s their job to bring about the best in the players and at the end of the end, bring home the results. They are the real men behind the scenes that provides the rudder to the ship and guide them where they want to go.However, at the slightest hint of dysfunction, the managers are always the first to go. The manager is both the club’s biggest asset as well as the biggest liability. This asset, however indispensable, becomes the easiest to be expended. Always.Sportskeeda today looks at five such faces, who might face the axe if they don’t quite deliver by the end of the season.
#1 Pep Guardiola (Bayern Munich)
The name Pep Guardiola itself wouldn’t warrant a review in most places. Two years, five titles including two Bundesliga titles on the trot. That’s what the Spaniard has been able to deliver at the helm of Bayern Munich. Such incomings of silverware normally doesn’t give away to second thoughts anytime soon. However, in the Bavarian nation, they set the bar a little higher.
They not only want success but demand it. And success for them mean not only winning stuff but winning them all. Bundesliga these days has been a long foregone conclusion with Munich monopolising any debate in their neck of the woods. What they are after, is the big crown. Not happy just to sit atop Deutschland but the whole of continental Europe.
Any addition to the five trophies or a record fourth successive Bundesliga title will not matter for the man that was brought to the Allianz for one sole purpose only; rule Europe and rule in style. If this year produces heartaches alike, the previous couple of painful semi-final exits in the Champions League, Guardiola’s head, as well as his dignity might well be on the choppig board.