Unbiased United
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Both Laporta and Rosell have tried to tie him down with many longer contract offers. He's rejected them all simply because he likes to work on a year-by-year basis.
I'd posit that it's because of the era he grew up in as a Barcelona fan/player. Once a coach of Madrid or Barcelona gets to three or four seasons, their time is usually up. He wants to be able to walk away when he feels the players no longer respond to him in the ways he wants.
Plus the stress of the job is clearly having ill effects on his health. He'll stay until 2012, maybe 2013. That's it.
Oh ok, thanks for this....Do you think he will still manage though?...I mean any big job is going to carry stress levels that have potential to have ill effects on a managers health. (saying that I'd rather have the 'stress' of earning vasts amounts of money has Barca manager, than work hard outside in the rain for a tiny fraction of what he gets....but maybe thats just me! ).