The sacking of Leicester manager Paulo Sousa after just nine games has brought a stinging rebuke from Richard Bevan, chief Executive of the LMA (League Managers Association).
"How can a chairman expect to deliver success at a football club when a talented manager is recruited and dismissed within 2 months, at the start of the season and is given only nine league games to put his own imprint on the squad and the club?" asked Bevan.
"Knee-jerk dismissals, and the chopping and changing of managers will not deliver success on the field and is incredibly destabilizing to the entire club. Paulo’s sacking is even more disappointing in light of the chairman’s comments on Paulo’s appointment, in the summer, when he stated he was ‘delighted to acquire a manager of such great calibre'."
Leicester issued a statement this morning.
"The decision has been taken as a result of the club's poor run of results this season.
"The club would like to state that Paulo Sousa is a first-class individual, but that this decision has been taken in the best interests of the club and our ambitions to move up the npower Championship."
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