The pressures of the modern football manager.

Mitch Pryce, Award Leader of Sports Journalism at Staffordshire University, looks on during one of his lectures.

Broadcast Journalist, Mitch Pryce expressed his views about the pressures of football managers. Mitch is currently the Award Leader of Sports Journalism at Staffordshire University and has worked for BBC, ITV and Match of the Day.

He said: “I believe the pressures of football managers has never been intense as they are at the moment. The bar for success has never been higher. From a football managers point of view they cannot afford to fail. The reason why the fear of failure is so strong is there is to much money in the game now. There has never been this much money around in the game for the owners to get their hands on for success. The price of failure is sack the manager and get someone who can get you to that route to access the funds.

Mark Hughes, manager of Stoke City looks on during the EFL Cup Third Round match between Stoke City and Hull City at the Bet365 Stadium on September 21, 2016 in Stoke on Trent, England. (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

The team who finishes bottom of the Premier League this year; will earn more money than Manchester United did two years ago when they won the league. This is driven by television money. The global demand for the product has risen to £5.136bn for live Premier League TV rights for three seasons. The game is streamed all around the world and the price on that means the clubs are benefiting. Clubs want success straight away to access this money.

The average length of time for managers in charge has never been this low, which is about 15 months. In years gone by it was about 3 years; if he has not succeeded by then he was out the door. It was well documented that Sir Alex Ferguson had a very unsuccessful start at Manchester United and he was within one result of losing his job. The rest is now history.

I think part of the inpatients is driven by the new type of owners at football clubs. Now a days, most of the clubs in the Premier League are currently owned by oversees owners. These guys are global players and they are use to getting their own way in there own field of work. If they don’t get success in what they consider a reasonable set of time, they will make a change.

Steve Bruce, manager of Aston Villa looks on during the Sky Bet Championship match between Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Villa Park on October 15, 2016 in Birmingham, England (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Some of these owners don’t have a great understanding of the game. They see football clubs as a product to be bought and sold.