Much will be written over the coming weeks around Wagner and his Valkeries being on rolling contracts and how much it could cost if they are removed from their current positions.

A rolling or open-ended contract has been discussed many times and when I worked as a sub-contractor in the oil/gas and construction from 1980 until I retired in 2015 it was never as a company employee.

In my experience, most contracts were one-year open, so no discussion was ever made about extending – you just carried on regardless until a decision was made on an agreed yearly bonus and incremental pay rise, plus the length of notice was agreed, which was usually 60 days or the equivalent in money in lieu of notice. It worked for all parties.

So, on that basis, a rolling contract is much cheaper than a fixed-term one, especially for a football club where management changes are so frequent.
Someone said in response to Stewart Lewis’s article of yesterday, ‘sack him or back him’. But is it that simple"

To supporters it is but there are other costs involved. Most replacements and their team would need to be released by another club – so compensation would have to be paid, plus an agent/finder fee and, possibly, a signing-on fee. So, either way, a huge amount of money.

At the end of last season the club’s recruitment team, including the sporting director and head coach, decided more experienced players were needed, so went down the cheap-an...