Only in football do you find a kind of madness where clubs sack their managers at a crucial stage of the season without a succession plan.
In an industry worth billions of pounds, the last couple of weeks have been as baffling as I can remember. Regrettably, changing managers has become a fact of life in the modern game.
More Premier League clubs have changed their head coach this season than ever before - and two more bosses, West Ham's David Moyes and Steve Cooper at Nottingham Forest, are thought to be on thin ice. But I cannot get my head around the lack of strategic planning.
Two years ago, Chelsea sacked Frank Lampard and brought in Thomas Tuchel, who won the Champions League four months later.
Under new owners, Tuchel was sacked last September and they brought in Graham Potter, insisting he was a long-term appointment to build a 'project' at Stamford Bridge, and they gave him £600million worth of new players – far too many for him to keep them all happy.
So last weekend they sacked Potter and, to hold the fort for the rest of the season, they have gone full circle by bringing Lampard back. Don't get me wrong: I'm delighted for Frank, I thought he was treated harshly by former owner Roman Abramovich and I hope he does well.
Chelsea are not going to finish in the top four, but what happens if Lampard wins the Champions League? Are they going to tell Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Mauricio Pochettino and everyone else they are interviewing for Potter's old job, “Sorry, the vacancy has been filled”?
Don't think it can't happen – because we've been here before in 2012. Roberto Di Matteo wasn't expected to beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich to win the European Cup when he stepped up to replace Andre Villas-Boas, but he did, and he kept his job (briefly) into the following season.
Chelsea is Frank's club, all of his success as a player was at Stamford Bridge and he is assured of a warm welcome 'home.' It's an amazing opportunity for him, but it's remarkable how they have gone full circle in little more than two years – more by accident than design.
Leicester pulled the plug on Brendan Rodgers after four years, and they may struggle to find another head coach who wins the FA Cup and delivers two top-five finishes and a European semi-final.
Would they have pulled up the drawbridge on Rodgers if his team had held out for another 30 seconds at Crystal Palace? It was only Jean-Philippe Mateta's 94th-minute winner at Selhurst Park last weekend that left the Foxes in the bottom three, and I wonder if his exit was decided by those fine margins?
Either way, I cannot understand why Leicester have left two of Brendan's coaching staff, Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell, in charge if they hit the panic button to try and avoid relegation.
Good luck to Sadler and Stowell, but they lost at home to Aston Villa in midweek and if they lose at home to fellow strugglers Bournemouth, fans will ask why Leicester wasted two winnable home games with caretakers holding the fort? Where is the succession planning? Why didn't they have an oven-ready replacement lined up?
Football's merry-go-round is so unpredictable that it wouldn't surprise me if Potter ended up at Leicester and Rodgers landed on his feet at Tottenham, who parted ways with Antonio Conte last month but left his assistant Cristian Stellini in charge.
Rodgers would be a perfect fit for Spurs – he preaches attractive, expansive football, he's a proven quality at big clubs Liverpool and Celtic... and he's won trophies, something Tottenham haven't done for 15 years.
Twelve managers have already lost their jobs in the Premier League in the 2022-23 season, and while I'm pleased that West Ham and Forest have stood by Moyes and Cooper respectively, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a 13th casualty. But this madness has to stop. Who's next in the firing line... Jurgen Klopp?
