As usual Wenger is right.

Greed is running and ruining the premier legue.

abritincanada, calgary,

Wenger is so right. Where has the time gone to build teams? Rome wasn't built in a day. Money is ruling, and ruining, the beautiful game. We'd would never have had a Revie, Shankly, Busby, Nicholson or Mee if they worked under these conditions.

Alastair, Red Lodge, USA, Montana

It is a results driven industry: if you don't get the results, you don't keep your job. When managers are being paid 7 figure annual salaries, then they must expect to be sacked, but perhaps they should have more performance-related clauses in their contracts, as should the players. Too many managers (yes you Mr McClaren) wait to be pushed in order to pick up nice fat pay-offs for gross under-achievement. They should be held to account.
Jonathan Newcastle

Jonathan Stirland, Newcastle ,

Who is going to come in and do a better job than Billy Davies? Are Derby suddenly going to come up with millions for transfers. Even that doesn't always work, look at Sunderland. At least Davies knew his players and the fans. When are Chairman going to realise that there is rarely someone who can turn it round that quickly with no funds. Watford are reaping the benefits this season and good luck to them.

Gary, Bristol.

Gary Bailey, Bristol, England

Elegantly put as ever by Arsene Wenger. God forbid that SAF should ever suffer immolation as I fear (allegedly) that the fire would take some time to go out....

Marc, Liverpool, UK

Arsène Wenger is so totally right, as per usual. It's disgraceful that Billy Davies should have been given the boot, for having dared to speak his mind. Derby would not even be in the EPL, but for his hard work. It is always going to be a major problem for them to defy gravity and avoid dropping back into the Championship from whence they came.

That must be very hard for their deluded chairman to stomach, given that he thinks Derby are one of the "biggest clubs in the country". Who is he kidding? Life has moved on, since the heady days of the (early) seventies. I'll say it again: who'd be mad enough to take on this managerial position? I wouldn't wish this job upon my worst enemy.......but then again.

Peter Koeb, Geneva, Switzerland

Wenger is absolutely right here. It is crazy that the people who own Premier League clubs seem to be so weak from the pressure of poor results, without lookng at the context. Billy Davies overachieved last season, like Ady Boothroyd a year before him and so anything they got in the Premier League would be a bonus. In fact after spending much fo last season as the Premier League's whipping boys, Boothroyd's Watford are now top of the Championship, favourites to go back up and a stronger side.

Boothroyd and the Watford board are now reaping the rewards of their year in the premier league. This the price of patience. What now for Derby? Instead of being a learning curve for further expansion, the misery at the bottom could destroy the team, board and fans confidence.

Jon Gill, Norwich,

Davies's departure is no mystery to anybody that has a job. His bosses want success in the Premiership but aren't prepared to pay for it. They'll happily rake in the big money that comes from Premiership games but they won't invest it in the future of the club. A strange attitude for so-called "businessmen." One has to feel sorry for Davies that he was working for men who are prepared to exploit his hard work to get the club promoted and then knife him in the back when he dared to tell them the truth about their greed to the media.

David M, Edinburgh, UK