Division One
Schalke: promoted last season against the odds, this season was always going to be a struggle. Jay has begun a radical rebuild and he deserves a chance to see it through.
Benfica: it’s been a steady decline resulting in relegation under Gregg, but he has been rebuilding. Not as active as I would like, but there are similarities with Atletico’s situation last season. Gregg will stay this time and is expected to do better on and off the pitch.
Leverkusen: Marco has done well to keep Leverkusen in D1 in the previous couple of seasons, but couldn’t quite repeat the feat this time around. He’s got some good assets which I’m sure a number of managers are hoping to get their hands on with a change of manager. In the interests of the club, Marco stays to realise them.
Division Two
Anderlecht: According to the stats, Walter was expected to be relegated and he duly delivered, finishing bottom to boot. When he took over from Neil, Anderlecht were comfortably mid-table as predicted, so something happened in the week or so between Walter’s appointment and when Malcolm produced his stats for the season. All that said, Walt is super-active, and still has some good assets some of whom could well still find their way to sunny Spain. Walter stays.
Liverpool: Chris has tried hard to improve his team, and was successful last season finishing in the playoffs. This season he was predicted to repeat that performance, but his transfer strategy has come at the cost of an ageing and rapidly declining team. Performance has dropped accordingly, and we feel it’s time for a new manager to rebuild while trying to remain competitive in D3. Chris will not be reappointed.
Division Three
Monaco: Toze hasn’t been very active, but it was always going to be a tough task in his first season in Top 100 after promotion last time. Toze reappointed.
Celta Vigo: Murilo took over midway through the season so he is reappointed.
Celtic: a double relegation for Hugo. Hard to justify his reappointment on that basis alone, although others have suffered double relegations in the past and survived, albeit under different circumstances. Hugo’s active, tried to improve his team and arguably done so, but results have just not happened for him this season. He took Celtic up from D4 to D2 against the odds, so he deserves a chance to repeat that trick or decide his own fate when he chooses. Hugo reappointed.
Division Four
Atalanta: Chris has struggled in D4 after promotion and being nominated for Manager of the Season last time out. Reappointed.
Bordeaux: Another team promoted last season. Cameron is inactive and didn’t respond to repeated requests on the newsfeed for managers to lt me know if they wanted to stay or not. Not reappointed.
Santos: Paulo looked like he might avoid the bottom three for much of the season, is active and tried to improve his team. Reappointed.
Division Five
Chievo: Carlos hasn’t been able to improve results for Chievo and we did think a change of manager/club might be in order. Our Manager Assistant Decision-making system (MAD) decrees that not reappointing Carlos at this time would be a clear and obvious error, so he is reappointed.
PSV: a similar story at PSV, MAD decision: Chris reappointed.
Lazio: Nuno has been active and improved his team, and even looked like he was going to escape the bottom three, but got dragged back in. Nuno reappointed.
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