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Sacking Sven would be absolute madness
Filed in archive Managers by Graham Fisher on April 18, 2008
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It could be purely media speculation and there may be no real prospect of it happening at all, but the stories of the tenuous nature of Sven Goran Eriksson's reign at Manchester City are gathering speed.

The Thai owner of the club, Thaksin Shinawatra, has refused to confirm that the former England manager's job is safe. He has said that he will review the position at the end of the season. He has said that he has been 'very disappointed' by the second half of the season and needs to decide on the future.

I have to say that I am not a member of the 'money is ruining football' club, and I don't object to overseas money coming into the English game. I truly believe that all of the investment can only be good for English football, but the prospect of Sven losing his job is absolute madness.

If Shinawatra does decide to relieve Eriksson of his duties then the whole game of football needs to stop and take a good look at itself. Instant success is demanded by club owners but when will people learn that it is consistency and longevity that bring success, not knee-jerk sackings of managers who are doing OK or better.

Sven became England manager after a wonderfully successful club managerial career in Sweden, Portugal and Italy. As England manager opinions are divided as to whether he was a success or not. Regular visits to quarter-finals of tournaments was certainly as good as most managers had achieved before or since.

At Manchester City he has turned a pretty poor side into one that has done the double over Manchester United and sit eighth in the Premier League with a worst possible finish of ninth. This is a vast improvement on the last two seasons when City finished 14th and 15th and flirted with relegation.

Sven has improved the club significantly from one looking nervously over their shoulders at the drop zone to one looking up at the possibility of European football. He has unearthed great talents like Elano and Petrov and has a fine pool of excellent English youngsters like Hart, Richards, Onouha and Johnson.

For the sake of the sanity of English football I strongly advise Mr Shinawatra to end the speculation and confirm that Sven will see out his contract.



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