SugarKing

A head coach is not a strategy. If the game model leaves when the coach does, the club never owned it. North Africa is the worked example. Rhulani Mokwena since Mamelodi Sundowns: Wydad Casablanca (2024/25), MC Alger (2025/26), Libya's Al-Ittihad from March 2026, Pyramids FC from July 2026. Goal reported he left MC Alger mid-season via a release clause worth two months' salary. Al-Ittihad ended its deal with Khaled Ben Yahia, who then took over at MC Alger. A coach swap in reverse. Espérance de Tunis replaced Laurențiu Reghecampf with Pablo Franco. Reuters: Reghecampf's "second spell in charge ended after four matches with Esperance top of the Tunisian league standings." Three wins in four. Franco had just led Maghreb Fès to their first Moroccan title since 1985. Fès named Rui Almeida for a single season, and the research file notes sporting director Badr Kadouri left around the same time. The champion changed anyway. When this applies: any league where coaches move between rivals every season. Your only continuity is the game model, the recruitment profile and the pathway. That needs an owner who stays. Watch out for: - Changing coach while winning, with no written criteria. The next coach gets judged on a standard nobody wrote down. - Cheap exit clauses. Write them in, expect to use them. - Assuming a title buys stability. Success often triggers the departures. Continuity checklist: 1. The SD owns the game model. Coaches are hired to it. 2. Criteria for a coaching change are on paper before results force it. 3. Every release clause is priced as a succession trigger. 4. A live shortlist exists the week you win the league. If your coach left tomorrow, what would still be yours?