Originally Posted by
David Vincent
Transfer spending is a very big part of a club's finances and some manager still have control of that spending. For example, I believe only Wenger decides who is bought at Arsenal but you read in the papers about other managers complaining, after they have been sacked, that they had no say in who was sold and bought.
I don't think it has always been, or even is, the case that a manager only cared about keeping his job. If it was like that then a manager would always claim the credit for things that went right and they would blame others for things that went wrong.