Sixteen wins, three draws, one defeat. Top of DNK Division 1. Not one vote to keep the job.

At 15:50 UTC on Saturday, McManaman was out at Brøndby. Thirty seconds earlier PalmaMan had gone at Las Palmas, who sit eight points clear at the top of ESP Division 2. On Thursday I told you neither man could win on the tallies. The final scores were 15,255–0 and 9,940–0.

One holder, one decision

The Brøndby ballot came down to one account. Luucasmb holds 15,255 influence there, and his vote was the entire turnout (45% of supply). At Las Palmas, his 4,990 plus NachoHeras's 4,950 made up the 9,940.

It gets worse for McManaman: this is the second time those same 15,255 votes have sacked him. In January they voted in Fucksehir, 15,255 to 3,300, ending a first spell of 67 wins in 86 games. McManaman got the job back in June. In January CrazyCult and XVIX backed him. This time nobody did. XVIX, who still holds 2,200, was active in-game an hour after the axe fell.

McManaman ranks 70th of 13,550 on the tactician table. PalmaMan won 16 of his 31 games. Neither has logged in since Wednesday evening, less than three hours after the ballots opened.

Neither replacement has managed a club before. NordVogter's first game came 2h09 after he took over: a 0–0 home derby against fatincasa's København. Brøndby now lead Herning by a single point. ElAlisio started with a 1–0 win at Granada.

Monday: the Bonani shuffle

Luucasmb has two more ballots on the go. They opened two minutes apart and both close tomorrow:

• Toluca, 17:12 UTC: Bonani 4,987, Con-Art 0. Luucasmb is the only voter. Con-Art has 23 wins in 38 games and Toluca are 3rd in MEX Division 1.
• Moskva Red, 17:14 UTC: Centerback 3,681, Bonani 150. Luucasmb and Kijan, Bonani's old rival for this dugout, back Centerback. ripi302 is Bonani's only backer.

So Luucasmb is voting Bonani out at Moskva Red and in at Toluca. Bonani has won six of eight at Moskva Red, who are 5th in RUS Division 1. Centerback's last proper job, at Palmira, brought two wins in 18.

Con-Art hasn't been in-game since Friday morning, ten hours before the Toluca ballot opened. The only holder big enough to save him is Cthulhu, with 6,798, and Cthulhu hasn't been active since 7 June. ZiggyStarDust's 1,750 and Alexander28's 750 together don't come close.

If a team is interested, I can work with them. Provided that the influencers of that team are active

Pressure at the bottom

Oviedo are last in ESP Division 2, with five defeats and a draw from their last six. A ballot of boss Alexander28 against Dony2, who has never managed, opens at midnight UTC. Alexander28 also holds 22,001 of Oviedo's 31,490 influence, so in practice he's voting on his own job. In September he put that weight behind a replacement, SanBromley, and won 22,001–1,626. SanBromley never shows up in Oviedo's manager history. Explain yerself, pal.

Musical chairs

Over the past seven days the chain logged 198 appointments at 178 clubs and 94 departures. RODRIGO took 10 of those jobs, at nine clubs, in under 44 hours from Friday night: Klaipėda, Amadou Diallo, Kolwezi Red, Stellenbosch, Harbour View (twice, the second time for 12 minutes), Faetano, Eastern Cape (one game, lost), Hînceşti, and now Bersenbrück.

At the top of the rankings, the No. 1 tactician, DeepSeek (417 points, 153 wins in 177 games at AK Hamad Town), has had no club and hasn't logged in since 6 July. Sals (3rd) and vas (4th) haven't been on since that same week either.

And Discord?

Nothing. Since 25 September, no public channel has mentioned McManaman, PalmaMan, NordVogter, ElAlisio or Luucasmb. The only mention of Brøndby was the bot giving fatincasa tactics for the trip there. LucasMB | Carlisle, the Discord account linked (unverified) to Luucasmb, hasn't posted since 1 October.

On 30 September brettwhipp described how it normally works:

the shareholders are backing the manager already, thats why he has a job. (most of the time its the same person)

At Brøndby and Las Palmas the holder and the manager weren't the same person, and both managers paid for it. Con-Art, you've got until 17:12 tomorrow to find Cthulhu. Off ya go, la.