What would a team do if the back room staff didn't want to leave after a managerial change? I understand the need for a new manager to want to install his own back room staff, but surly in today's PC world it would be hard to justify sacking a team of coaches for no other reason than the new manager doesn't want them? It's not like they are being made redundant as the position is clearly still there and needed and while they could come up with some silly excuse to "sack" them surly it could be proven an unfair dismissal as it was purely due to the new manager coming in. I guess they would normal part ways on mutual grounds but my question is what would they do should a first team coach/assistant manager turn around and say no thanks I'd like to see out my contract? I just find Football an incredible odd set up where by you can be released from your place of work for any and every reason and no one blinks twice. If I got a new manager in my office, while we may not see eye to eye necessarily, I can not be sacked purely as the new manager wanted to install his own Accounts staff in the office. What's your thoughts on it? I'm not criticizing it, merely making conversation as it was something muling over in my mind on the way to work this morning and just thought I'd see what others thought? Football truly is in it's own little bubble of a world it seems.
Then you pay off the contract. It's essentially the same deal as the manager - if you want to get rid of the coaches as well you have to pay them off. It's why all football coaches and managers have fixed term contracts as opposed to the rolling ones in most companies - you can dismiss someone from a fixed term contract at any time by paying off the rest of their contract. Football coaches are more like contractors than actual employees, from a legal point of view. IIRC payoffs are the usual deal - coaches and assistants don't leave voluntarily as they know they can get a nice payoff. Pretty sure Chelsea paid off the coaches and assistants they ditched when they fired Grant, Scolari, Ancelotti and AVB. And I'd be surprised if Phelan and Steele didn't get payoffs from Utd, tho if Rene leaves he might not get anything as that would be his decision. It does seem a bit odd when you consider it from the point of view of a normal company, but then remember that the assistants and coaches are a lot closer to the manager than the accountants are to the managers in an office. A more appropriate analogy would be if you got a new director for a company then they would be very likely to bring in a new PA to replace the old boss's one.
