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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twelve managers have been shown the door by their employers during the 2022/2023 Premier League campaign. It’s a record for England’s top soccer league – the most popular one in the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The previous mark was 10 dismissals in a single season (jointly set last season and during the 2008/2009, 2013/2014 and 2017/2018 campaigns).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two managers who became the latest casualties and helped to set this unwanted record are Chelsea’s Graham Potter and Leicester City’s Brendan Rodgers.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both clubs find themselves in unfamiliar territory (by their respective standards).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since their 10th loss of the season to Aston Villa, a week ago, two-time European champions Chelsea linger in the bottom half of the table. It was that match that cost Potter his job.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/english-premier-league-manchester-united-vs-leicester-city-2/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1639190\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/62-Rodgers-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"464\" /></a> <em>Leicester City's manager, Brendan Rodgers, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Leicester City in Manchester, Britain, 19 February 2023. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Peter Powell)</em></p>\r\n<h4><b>No wizardry</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With every passing match it seemed more inevitable that the former Brighton boss would leave Chelsea.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of the 13 league matches the team played in the new year under Potter, the Blues managed only three wins.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The supporters grew more frustrated and boos replaced happy chants at Stamford Bridge. 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All that has gone out the window as the club searches for its third manager in less than a year.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has been linked with the vacant seat, as have Julian Nagelsmann (who was recently replaced by Tuchel at Bayern Munich) and former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Toothless Foxes</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leicester are also in search of a new manager after the dismissal of Rodgers. The Foxes find themselves teetering ever so close to relegation, after picking up just 25 points from the 28 league matches they played under Rodgers.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2015/2016 Premier League champions have nine matches at the time of writing to turn things around and avoid dropping back into the second tier for the first time since 2014.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The club finished in a comfortable eighth position last season and was fifth during the 2020/2021 campaign. The decline this season has left everyone in Leicester scratching their heads.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodgers believes he would eventually have steered the Foxes out of their troubles. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I am obviously disappointed to depart so close to the end of the season and had every confidence that we would have delivered the results needed to preserve the club’s Premier League status,” Rodgers said in a statement.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp suggested when quizzed on the record-setting dismissals of Potter and Rodgers, sport may be entertainment, but it is also a billion-dollar industry. Especially in England.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clubs splash millions during every transfer window, such as the £500-million Boehly’s consortium splurged on new Chelsea players this season alone.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We all accept that’s part of the business,” Klopp said of the dismissals.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s 12 now, which is an awful number. Some clubs are underachieving, us too [Liverpool]. There are expectations out there. Rightly so. And if you don’t reach them, you have to accept the decisions.”</span>\r\n<h4><b>Expendable</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” South African coach Steve Komphela once said as he felt the demands of coaching Kaizer Chiefs.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a feeling that prevails in soccer circles. When a team is winning, everyone tries to take credit for its success. 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(Photo: EPA-EFE / Peter Powell)</em>[/caption]\r\n<h4><b>No wizardry</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With every passing match it seemed more inevitable that the former Brighton boss would leave Chelsea.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of the 13 league matches the team played in the new year under Potter, the Blues managed only three wins.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The supporters grew more frustrated and boos replaced happy chants at Stamford Bridge. 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All that has gone out the window as the club searches for its third manager in less than a year.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has been linked with the vacant seat, as have Julian Nagelsmann (who was recently replaced by Tuchel at Bayern Munich) and former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Toothless Foxes</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leicester are also in search of a new manager after the dismissal of Rodgers. The Foxes find themselves teetering ever so close to relegation, after picking up just 25 points from the 28 league matches they played under Rodgers.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2015/2016 Premier League champions have nine matches at the time of writing to turn things around and avoid dropping back into the second tier for the first time since 2014.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The club finished in a comfortable eighth position last season and was fifth during the 2020/2021 campaign. The decline this season has left everyone in Leicester scratching their heads.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodgers believes he would eventually have steered the Foxes out of their troubles. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I am obviously disappointed to depart so close to the end of the season and had every confidence that we would have delivered the results needed to preserve the club’s Premier League status,” Rodgers said in a statement.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp suggested when quizzed on the record-setting dismissals of Potter and Rodgers, sport may be entertainment, but it is also a billion-dollar industry. Especially in England.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clubs splash millions during every transfer window, such as the £500-million Boehly’s consortium splurged on new Chelsea players this season alone.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We all accept that’s part of the business,” Klopp said of the dismissals.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s 12 now, which is an awful number. Some clubs are underachieving, us too [Liverpool]. There are expectations out there. Rightly so. And if you don’t reach them, you have to accept the decisions.”</span>\r\n<h4><b>Expendable</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” South African coach Steve Komphela once said as he felt the demands of coaching Kaizer Chiefs.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a feeling that prevails in soccer circles. When a team is winning, everyone tries to take credit for its success. 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Leicester City's manager, Brendan Rodgers, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Leicester City in Manchester, Britain, 19 February 2023. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Peter Powell)