You cant write a team off because they lose a couple of games, I think they should have kept Alonso and maintain a stable team.
Rafa has always been given a rough ride by his bosses and never seems to be given credit for his team doing well. His bosses seem to think there is greener grass with appointing another manager maybe, they could just be wrong and maybe the answer is to give Rafa their full support instead.
Stoop, there is no 50% tax rate with footballer's as they all use EBT's so I think you will find that they all pay full tax & nic's @ 20% and based on a salary of £12k. How the other half live!!!!!