Paying Managers and Hypocrisy

[darbyo]

A foul on the pitch is rewarded with a free.
Comparing a foul with paying a manager is ridiculous.

It's no more ridicuilous than saying paying a manager is cheating. But we are getting off point here, there are lots of ways to 'pay' a manager without actually paying him,e.g. generous expenses. Getting someone with the experience, knowledge, personality, dedication, tactical awareness and organizational ability is not easy. Anyone who has coached at a fairly high level, or been involved in a top class set up knows the time and effort needed. The truth is it is far inexcess of what most players need to do. Lads can always give examples of outside 'paid' managers that were disasters, but the opposite is true also. The job now warrants lads who do it right, getting generous 'expenses'. Many clubs will find it difficult to get someone with a quality to take teams in the future without renumeration, maybe that's a sad reality, but it is a reality.

[his holiness nb]

Agree to disagree Darbyo, breaking the rules is breaking the rules imo.

[orangeman]

I was talking to a club member recently and he was saying that the problem his club and other clubs would have going forward was NOT the lack of players as I would have thought but the lack of MONEY to keep the club going.