10 Managers Who Were Sacked TOO SOON!

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[@killerz85gaming]

I would add Ancelotti from Real Madrid. Won la decima with a team playing excellent football all year and Di Maria on his best, but got sacked next year because he didn't win anything. Even though the difference between Barca and Real was marginal and UCL loss was bad luck.

[@SamWinchester000]

Yeah, but that's typical for Madrid. Every coach who does not win a title gets automatically sacked. Ok, maybe not Zidane, but only because he has a legendary bonus now (one Ancelotti unfortunately didn't have). Though, Zidane himself had said in his first RM spell (after having won the champions League twice) that he knows that he could always be fired very fast when a few results don't fit.

[@stevencooke6451]

Zidane must be a miraculous person. Quit on his own terms and then came back, possibly with Perez begging him to do so.

[@keirrobinson4156]

I'd add Ancelotti at Chelsea too. Won their first ever league and cup double in 2010 but sacked only 12 months later (and look how that worked out for them...)

[@ashleythomas4112]

11:10 Err, 14 year title drought when Benitez arrived in 2004, not 24 years.

[@HIM3153]

Possibly every chelsea manager under abramovich except avb

[@laurentiumarila1742]

Herry Mkilaha .... Scolari and AVB ,was the worst Chelsea managers..,ever...

[@clarkkent8765]

Don't forget about Avram Grant

[@laurentiumarila1742]

Philip Saal ...He took the team to the Champions league final in Moscow...,where we lost on penalties,against Man U

[@clarkkent8765]

@@laurentiumarila1742 come on I could do that with that Chelsea side, he did not have proper qualifications and was way out of his depth.

[@HIM3153]

@@laurentiumarila1742 atleast scolari got fired when he was the 3rd in the league at the time though farway from the 2nd by many points

[@jacobsmall8965]

Could you imagine what Rafa Benitez could’ve done to Newcastle if he actually had the financial backing that Steve has

[@b__c7538]

@Kuromori We all know that. Why are you even commenting this?

[@andrewsheen2717]

van Gaal - every club he ever worked at ended up hating him for being so dier. his methods worked with a super talented young generation at ajax but then there was failure at barca (mid table laughing stock in Spain at the time), bayern (mediocrity), man utd (tedious)

[@r0manovic]

Well at Barcelona he started by winning the first doubble in 39 years so I think it also worked it there. He made it to the championsleague final with bayern and what he made of our lousy dutch team in 2014 was just amazing. so it's not al that bad. But could have been a lot better indeed

[@FrankieBlueEyes]

Giampaolo wasn't fired too soon, he should never have been hired, he was a terrible fit at Milan. You knew he was gone after the first game when he said in the post game press conference that the 4-3-1-2 was not going to work and he needed to change tactics. Basically admitting everything he worked on in pre-season was a waste.

[@matissed5307]

MDAC1012 they should’ve never fired gattuso

[@FrankieBlueEyes]

@@matissed5307 agreed!

[@rushgeneral4858]

Giampaolo is shit. Gattuso left due to incompetence of Milan board.

[@tofco6444]

Lol it's good now thou 😂 Poli..ma boi 😂

[@mohammedsuliman8072]

@@matissed5307 true but pioli has been good so far

[@qayyuma9622]

Anyone who acc watched united under lvg and saw how boring the football was knows it wasn’t too soon

[@mur-gamingchannel9859]

True

[@Callumet]

@@mur-gamingchannel9859 he tried good football but the squad was not good enough, he was buillding a team to play better football

[@michealmiller9664]

Is the football no better now

[@qayyuma9622]

Micheal Miller just because they didn’t sign the right replacement doesn’t mean keeping lvg was the right decision

[@TheEvapiiShow]

He still got resuluts.

[@kevindegante8085]

Yay a Liga MX feature 👍

[@Maj1794]

Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea

[@dollarize6412]

Lopetegui for me was let go too soon. They were playing great football but just wouldn’t score goals, which was always going to happen without CR

[@cummerchant542]

Lola He was more shit them zidane our horror season was under him and zidane is and was betyer

[@gabrielgonzalez6841]

I am a Monterrey fan over here in Mexico. Thank you so much for not only talking about European coaches but including Vucetich as well. The reality is, we really did live our golden era under Vucetich, but with Monterrey, being the Mexican club with the most investments in transfers and with one of the most expensive teams in the Americas, there is always a lot of pressure and expectations on coaches and on results. Adding up to the pressure, Tigres, the rival side here in the city, began becoming stronger as last decade progressed, reason for which pressure grew, we sacked Vucetich after a mediocre start to a season and we changed managers so many times. In reality, we never were able to settle for a definite title-challenging team after Vucetich's departure, despite the money we invested, probably until nowadays, as we have a good batch of Mexican talent in Rodolfo Pizarro, Carlos Rodríguez, and César Montes, a solid defense lead by Argentine Nicolás Sánchez, and a very strong offensive line, including Vincent Janssen (those Spurs fans will probably remember him) and Rogelio Funes Mori (second highest goal scorer in the history of the club). It also helps that we are now coached by former player Antonio Mohamed. It seems like a new golden era might be starting for my team, even though, to be honest, I still miss the Vucetich era. Once again, thank you for talking about my club, it made my day, and best regards from over here in northern Mexico 🇲🇽!

[@cheeechee8296]

Finally, someone who actually agrees with me in that LVG got sacked too soon

[@mur-gamingchannel9859]

No he was trash, im glad he is gone

[@theoneaboveall6751]

MUR - Gaming Channel lol if he was so trash he would have been perfect for ManUre.

[@NoCluYT]

@@mur-gamingchannel9859 he was the only decent manager after Fergie

[@eggegg4933]

@@mur-gamingchannel9859 he gave young players playing time e.g Rashford. United fans were too impatient with him

[@princewillmadugba]

@@mur-gamingchannel9859 No he wasn't, he would have built a great team with our academy

[@mattlord97]

Even though palace were absolutely terrible under De Boer and Hodgson has worked out really well for them, sacking someone after 4 games is honestly outrageous

[@taliamason7986]

It isn't when you lose 4 in a row, concede 7 and in all of that show no real tactics or any way of any plan going forward to prove that can all change. In other words things were only going to get worse and the players morale was already low enough it was.

[@cummerchant542]

He didn’t even score a goal and conceded 7

[@y1521t21b5]

2:48 You're taking the mickey with that one...

[@ArloQuilt]

y1521t21b5 I know

[@jaimie00]

As an Atlanta United fan, I agree. He took a team that just won MLS Cup, with an exciting attacking style, and turned them into guys who can only pass backwards and sideways before booting our best players and bringing in a lot of people who have never played in MLS right before Champions League starts. ATL gave him WAY too much time. And now the damage is done. No going back.

[@Calbistro]

George Burley at Hearts in 2006. 1st place in the league, 10 straight wins. Sacked.

[@shagger1288]

Always knew it would be a disaster sacking allardyce from rovers

[@mikkelfrangu7816]

Pioli has us playing much better football than that confused Giampaolo ever did. He spent the entire summer preparing a 4-3-1-2 formation, and then scrapped it when it didn't work and we lost to Udinese in the first game. And, Giamp prefered Biglia over Bennacer and Rodriguez over Hernandez, that says it all...

[@Agee1]

Not to mention getting rid of Suso.

[@Weirdflex99]

Klop when he gets sacked in 7 years from now

[@roryevans4295]

Rafa was sacked at the right time we were going down the pan with him, we just needed to employ a better manager/s than we did

[@cheapsket3873]

5:46 ugggggh Montaro isnt a team, if u meant Monterrey, ur still wrong. He currently manages Queretaro (KE-RE-TAH-ROH) Sorry for the little rant, I just wished people would get names like that

[@joeycazares4956]

cheap sket funny how that was where I was born and today we had a game against Queretaro but we lost

[@cheapsket3873]

@@joeycazares4956 i watched that game, Monterrey r having a rough patch just like Chivas

[@joeycazares4956]

cheap sket I know

[@joeycazares4956]

cheap sket the last goal was a Golazo by the guy with the little mask on. I watched the game with my family

[@b__c7538]

i think he said quetaro, which is still the wrong way to say it

[@PressStartGamingYT]

John Toe-shank 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@angriestgrape1157]

Lvg was really underrated

[@lazysoul7385]

Angriest Grape ikr he's the one who got rashy up

[@BronzeArms]

they did LVG dirty

[@mannytuzo]

Big shoutout for including V.M Vucetich! From a Mexican fan here 👍🏼

[@ishmamrahman877]

Vaan Gaal's curse is still haunting United

[@ishmamrahman877]

@Blood Lust @Blood Lust he was building a strong squad.. he bought the right players.. Mourinho came and ruined the club

[@cummerchant542]

ishmam rahman yeah by getting second

[@thomasmuller6301]

Benitez was sacked too late

[@Alessandroarda]

Just saw this video now, and yes patience is needed cuz look at pioli and milan in this moment!!

[@willpbh9694]

Di Matteo won the FA Cup and Champions League ans was still sacked pretty early on into the next season.

[@goliathcredtin]

Watching this now after Milan just won the scudetto makes what was said about them so funny

[@harrisonbaker199]

Lvg army! Lvg army! Lvg armmyyy!

[@deanfoster8545]

Maybe I’m just not understanding but Zach said the underlining numbers for Frank do bore in the games that he played were five points expected. However they got 0 points. He said the underlining numbers were not bad but what’s the point in that statement if they got 0 points?

[@blackbaron0]

Yeah Del Bosque. Sums up Real really.

[@chrisramirez1671]

Great shout to Vucetich. He would have been a great manager for the Mexico national team going into 2014.

[@DevoGaming93]

As an Atlanta United fan, I heard all about how 'bad' De Boer was as a manager. He was not very warmly welcomed here either and fans were calling for the sack maybe 2 weeks into the campaign. Turns out he's perfect for MLS and the signings he and the FO are pulling off for these young South American players is ridiculous

[@cummerchant542]

Not really a Montreal fan said he’s bad

[@shanewright2772]

Who does AVBs suits? They're quite nice.

[@13mikkel]

i can already name 2, from the same club. both moyes and mourinho were sacked too early, at united.

[@mesumnaqvi3411]

Carlo Anceloti from Chelsea, Real Madrid and Napoli.

[@caycecrabb4911]

He deserved it at Napoli I'm sorry but at the rest he didn't

[@paolotabone8143]

Giampaolo wasn't proven. Come on.

[@gaige8218]

Ranieri? He won the league and brought Leicester to a champions league quarter final and got sacked then

[@calebmufcthompson]

Take a shot every time they say XG 🤣

[@AgreeableComb]

Cheers for the out of continent pick!!

[@LelouchLothric]

Jose Mourinho at Utd should be here

[@Azza.10]

The New King he ruined the depth of our club

[@cummerchant542]

He was 6th and hated everyone

[@abhijitvishnu]

I agree with LVGz sacking coz we needed a coach with attacking impetus.. But mou was a not the replacement needed. Ole is good manager learning quickly and adapting to the games. His signings are are g8.. all of them goin straight into the first team. When he has finished we will have a team that is professional and hungry to play the united way. We are good on the counters not good attacking with patience and less space. Passing and creativity needs to improve. Bruno was brought in with the same intention. Man utd will sign a creative striker, winger or both..for sure

[@TheDMG187]

You could make a whole top 10 of this only in the Portuguese league, and you wouldn't even get close to cover all of them

[@deadpoolalpha1496]

Yes liga Mx mention

[@joewhite4456]

Puel at Southampton? He finished 8th with them and was still sacked. Wenger, he did better despite having less than £0 for transfers than emery did and so far arteta has shown nothing to say he's a big improvement. Duncan furgusson, he wasn't sacked but anyone with that kind of record as interim manager deserves a little more time and a shot at proving them self.

[@taliamason7986]

It was Claude Puel. Pellegrino was the one that had Southampton in the relegation zone most of that season. Duncan Ferguson didn't want to continue. He was only happy doing it until they brought in another Manager.

[@Azza.10]

It’s unfair to compare wenger and emery. Emery was at club very little time. That’s like me comparing ole to Alex Ferguson

[@joewhite4456]

@@Azza.10 but Wenger made £3 million profit on transfers in his last season then was told there was no more money, how much did emery spend?

[@cummerchant542]

Wenger never got fired

[@argjendahmetaj6322]

Di Matteo??

[@MrTeelom]

expected points per game is such a BS stat

[@joewhite4456]

Exactly, what are they basing that on? Who can say for sure what percentage of shots for each player should be on target? They can't possibly take everything into context like a certain player not being on full fitness, a player being in form or out of form or simply low on confidence.

[@MegaSting1981]

I know fans who use xg shit as facts. Just find it odd.

[@malkuidastw8830]

i think dimateo would be number one after he win cl with chelsea

[@tobybryan02]

Really miss Rafa, what a manager

[@UltimateEboue]

Benitez reign coincides with best arsenal team ever? Arsenal won one FA cup in Benitez' first season at Liverpool but were trash for the rest of his time there.

[@benjamindada638]

I think van gaal who is an attacking coach naturally it makes no sense

[@BabyPig3]

1) Arsene Wenger

[@cummerchant542]

He never got fired

[@Northwind20]

Leonardo Jardim from Olympiakos the man left unbeaten and was sacked because he wasn't playing attractive football

[@ermisgrivas8280]

Jardim has been unfairly sacked at least 3 times throughout his career.

[@matissed5307]

You should start watching serie A. Giampaolo was not fired too soon. Pioli his football is not very good, but he gets the points atm.

[@twiston43]

Lucien Favre at BVB this year.

[@mesumnaqvi3411]

Mourinho got sacked too soon by Chelsea in 15/16 and by Utd last season.

[@cummerchant542]

Jose was 10th at chelsea and 6th at man united Jose hates rashford martial pogba lukaku Luke Shaw and almost every signing was shit

[@ItsMe-nf8fk]

Where is valverde??

[@badman5356]

Lopetegui with Spain

[@raofulhaquedipto3272]

He was already signed by Madrid

[@adesperatelylonelysir7779]

Mourinho at Real, if it weren't for bad luck, he would have won them the UCL.

[@wrightknight711]

Do you actually do any research sure some of the managers on this list was turning the dressing rooms sour

[@PeterBuvik]

Well technically Liverpool Did not sack Benitez, Benitez terminated his contract beacause of Hicks and Jilette.

[@S4M33r_]

Pochettino as well

[@caycecrabb4911]

No he deserved it, he won nothing

[@cummerchant542]

He was 14th

[@calumbaker2612]

wheres wenger?

[@mohammedsuliman8072]

Lol

[@cummerchant542]

He never got fired

[@mohammedsuliman8072]

Resigned

[@iwantgoals1566]

It’s weird cause we would’ve been paying total football by now and we’d be able to attract a manager who was better than LVG at implementing that style of ball eg Ten Haag etc. But now the mistake of sacking LVG too early has led to another mistake which has led to our worst mistake of the last 10 years, hiring Ole. I also fear for the future of the club cause if he papers over the cracks by somehow finishing fourth we’ll keep him, miss out on Poch and all the top managers will be committed to their clubs. Peak times ahead.

[@Ramboo339]

Word

[@Ramboo339]

Ole is a shyte coach and needs to jog on. How much time did Rodgers need to catapult Leicester to 2nd/3rd?

[@iwantgoals1566]

Cypher Elite We’re giving the wrong guy time man. What if we qualified for the CL with Ole but then got knocked out in the group stage, ended up in Europa and ended up finishing lower than this season? We would’ve missed out on a class manager like Poch and the rebuilding cycle would begin again. If we get Poch in during the summer we take the rebuild to the next phase. Either way Ole is nowhere near good enough to contend with the likes of Klopp and Pep every season which is where we’re aiming to be at the end of the day.

[@iwantgoals1566]

Ramboo339 Even Lampard has had Chelsea up in the top four most of this season despite having a transfer ban and not being backed by his board. Klopp got to a European final in his first season, during Liverpool’s rebuild. Ole will never be good enough, he’s already lost more games than Klopp has in 4 years 🤣. 100% agree.

[@Azza.10]

Lol, LVG is one of the masters at total football. His problem was he had little control over signings and only had 2 years. If he had one more year at least to sign more players, we would’ve seen more improvement. People like, Herrera, blind, depay, Di Maria, schniedelin - even darmian and rojo were decent signings for backup Along came mourinho and destroyed that. Granted he did sign Pogba and lukaku but those players would be good for backup

[@smogma]

Louis van Gaal is one of history's best mangers but he is not a modern manager

[@aburaheimhassan1894]

Inter sacking Gasperini needs to be on this list. The guy only lasted a few games. Was ridiculed for waiting to play 3 at the back. Guess what inter are doing now?

[@Ozone280]

Van Gaal was not ever a Man Utd manager. Why should he expect United to change it's nature and adopt his "philosophy" of boring football and grinding out results all the time?

[@nishantgoushal9215]

Brendan rogers?

[@themusicmanthatcomesfaefaraway]

rat

[@darwenrover8910]

Unai Emery at Arsenal?

[@cummerchant542]

He was doing bad wasn’t he 10th?

[@BizarreWords]

@5:46 That is not how you pronounce either Liga MX or Querétaro. Liga MX: just say the letters Em Ex or Eme Ekis Querétaro: ke-reh-tah-roh Source: I'm Mexican, I live in Querétaro.

[@shady2305]

1. Wenger

[@cummerchant542]

He never got fired

[@Kains_Gaming_Channel]

United sacked lvg to bring in Jose and he left united with a worse team than lvg did.

[@akiffrahimi3222]

Gattuso should be stay at milan

[@clarkkent8765]

Antonio Conte got sacked too soon, if he was backed Chelsea would be taken a lot more seriously now.

[@cummerchant542]

He was he bought loads but finished 5th

[@ChristGodinyouItrust]

They should not have sacked Luis, he is the second best manager ever, After Ferguson!

[@cummerchant542]

Luis who

[@willpbh9694]

Ernesto Valverde won two titles and got sacked, and now Barcleona look worse

[@arnold2826]

No dislikes lets keep it that way

[@firstnamelastname-up6ni]

Say it with me ....Que.....ré.....ta......ro ..... bos.......QUE. you said it correctly once

[@matthewprovenzano6585]

Milan were right to sack Giampoalo, he was lost there. And what do you mean haven't worked out? They have won 4 games in a row now

[@lucaallegrezza5252]

Matthew Provenzano i Guess they don’t actually know what happens in italy smh

[@taliamason7986]

To top it all off there is a big chance they could nab 4th place if current form continues.

[@jakemarston4548]

Where’s Raineri

[@cummerchant542]

Which time

[@TheRoyston8791]

Allardyce bitter by lack of opportunities he's been given? He basically begged to be given the England job any time the vacancies came up and when he got his chance he showed everybody that a leopard never really changes its spots.

[@azk.8914]

arsene wenger-

[@yacinetaibi5835]

Giampaolo was shiiiit what the hell you're talking about

[@Nykona-Sharrowkyn]

When Benitez took over at Liverpool they hadn't won a title in 14 years NOT 24, go back to school and learn mathematics

[@Oakeedokee7]

LVG? No FD, shut up quit drinking

[@INDZDIPSET]

LVG was actually working on something very exciting. We just jumped at Jose and now look us, barely a team left !

[@princewillmadugba]

To be honest lvg should have been given time, what ogs is doing is similar to what lvg was building a team in his image, if he was given time we'll be alot better they rushed into mourinho to be honest

[@sambridhathapa4313]

I mean LVG gave debut to so many young players. Who knows how many plauers he would promote and would be in the current team, if he had stayed on.

[@cov_bet]

Princewill Madugba bullshit van gaal wasn’t good enough We lost 4-0 to mk dons

[@Azza.10]

Chike Obiaku that was at the beginning lol We had the best record against the top teams I believe

[@kevinavelar3284]

Zach butchered the Mexican pronunciations so bad

[@thecozykinoshow]

LVG was garb

[@aewallace81]

Wow, some terrible choices in there.

[@LR3323fd]

Brunooooooo

[@alonshveiky5702]

Lol Real Madrid literally sacked the GOAT in no. 3.. clowns

[@elijahcregan164]

Lois van gaal was terrible

[@smul8771]

Moyes, LVG, Mourinho just to name a few

[@jean-paulwalters8408]

Moyes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AngelMartinez-ut1lm]

@@jean-paulwalters8408 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NkemUtomi]

I agree Louis van Gaal was sacked to soon

[@capeunited7]

Legend has it that Football Daily replies😉

[@sammybosak10]

It's a myth

[@yourno1fan]

Cape United yeh stfu

[@eggegg4933]

oof

[@taliamason7986]

How exactly were Giampolo, De Boer, AVB and Machim sacked too soon other than the useless stats you gave for them. Giampolo was a bang average Coach of a bang average team that didn't really climb the table much. A bit like Stoke City in the first few years under Mark Hughes. He was out of his out depth in a much bigger club with much better players just as again Mark Hughes was after the Manchester City takeover. The man they should have brought in is Atalanta's Manager. A man who actually took that club higher up the table each season. You know proper improvement. De Boer was a dreadful Manager period. That was clearly indicated the season prior at Inter-Milan where he only lasted 3 months. Honestly he was incredibly fortunate to dominate a very very weak Eredevise at the time with Ajax those 4 consecutive seasons. AVB was out of his depth at both clubs. Chelsea brought him in on the assumption he was Mourinho's true successor based off what he also achieved with FC Porto. As for Spurs, Bale was carrying that team on his back that entire first season he took over them. As soon as he left for Real Madrid he was instantly exposed yet again. Which leaves Machim. He started off very well but dropped off rapidly Marco Silva style. Sevilla clearly wanted to finish in the top 4. As of right now Lopetegui has them sitting firmly where they need to be. It's looking more likely he could achieve it at the end of the season because of that improved defence you critised so foolishly.

[@eHalo87]

Talia Mason yeah I’m a Milan fan and Giampolo was horrible, worked the whole preseason trying to establish his new formation, I believe it was a 4312, and after the first game of the season in a draw. He threw it away and went back to the old ways . And we played like complete shite until he left, now we’re still shite, but not as bad. Climbing up since the arrival of Zlatan

[@johndoherty5194]

Good ebening.

[@clarkkent8765]

Van Gaal got hundreds of millions of pounds to rebuild the squad in his image and that was a squad that played boring shit football and somehow managed to not get top 4 when Leicester won the league. That FA Cup win was very very lucky especially the semi final against Everton, if we still had him we'd be a lower half side.

[@jean-paulwalters8408]

Jose's 2nd place was lucky, expected points had Man U to finish 6th, instead of 2nd, brought crap players, and then complained about the crap defenders he brought, instead of coaching them to become better, like LVG did, with Borthwick Jackson, he complained, but he's a poor coach, good tactical manager