Changing managers outside the window

[Pedro de la Rosa]

I think clubs should be able to what they want regarding managers.

The windows are hectic and crazy enough.

Why should you have to ride out half the season with a failing manager? Or worse, with a manager that knows he's getting sacked on January 1st? Managers have agents too. How would we feel if we had a manager that was already tapped up to go somewhere else? Or manager that was waiting for a phone call all month only to suddenly end up elsewhere at 11pm on January 31st?

We'd have gone down if we stuck with Trollope until Jan 1st. We comfortably stayed up under Warnock but Warnock picked up 16 points in 2016, and 3 more on Jan 2nd (Warnock wouldn't have been able to turn things around in a day!), so 19 in 12 games. We'd have got 8 points under Trollope, so an 11 point gain. We stayed up by 11 points.

Obviously, that's highly subjective but I think we'd have struggled had Warnock come in January as opposed to October.