What Mourinho says about Wenger being under the least pressure is so true. The league is a less interesting place without Jose doesn't do cliched "he's a great manager blah blah."
i've been thinking about this (which manager is under the most pressure), and imo its brendan rodgers.
mourinho and pellegrini are challenging for the title but if they finish 2nd it will not be perceived as being that bad. if they finish 3rd, its definitely below expectations, but again it probably wont be a disaster. and barring some real bad luck, they cannot really fall out of the top 4.
for man utd, a 2nd place finish (this season) will probably be seen as a good level of progress. finishing 3rd or 4th again will be very satisfactory too. finishing outside of the top 4 would obviously be a big failure but that looks vewry unlikely now, given their start and the amounts they spent on players over the past 24 moths.
anything above 4 is the target for arsenal. its not impossible that they could fall out the top 4 but they are still big favourites to finish in the top 4 again. although finishing outside of the top 4 would be a big failure for them, you would expect wenger would still hold onto his job because the board pretty much know he is the best manager for them. one year outside the top 4 in 2 decades, would still be considered a masssive success overall.
in terms of us, i think the general consensus is that finishing top 4 will be very difficult. i think we would be satisfied with a 5th or 6th place finish. we would be a bit dissapointed to finish 7th. but if someone has a season like southampton, i think we would accept finishing 7th too.
however, brendan has come out with numerous braindead comments over the years. ie. southampton: no ambition selling players. and tottenham; 100m, should challenge title etc.
thus he has created ridiculous expectations for himself and the club. anything outside the top 4 would be seen as failure and will again place unreasonable amounts of pressure on him given that his team isnt a top 4 quality side, and they cant afford to buy enough top 4 standard players either lol.
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re wenger, he probably is under the least amount of pressure of the top 5/6 managers, but that was the case with ferguson too. or guardiola at barca. guy roux at auxerre is another lesser known example too. when a manager proves over a long period, that he can provide exceptional results, its only natural that the level of trust that the owners have in that manager would be bigger than usual.