Ever wondered if the big managers get bored? Need a new challenge. Well, Ian McGarry at the Sun appears to have brought something rather interesting to light. They could well find one.

BIT of trouble with results down at Barnet? No problem, send for Fergie. Hassle between the chairman and coach at Hartlepool? Sounds a job for a diplomat like Arsene Wenger. This may seem fantasy football in trouble-shoot mode. But it will become a realistic prospect in the near future. For English football is about to become the first in the world to employ a mentoring system for its managers.

The revolutionary scheme will be officially launched in March as a joint initiative between the League Managers Association and the FA. It is the brainchild of the LMA and their chief executive Richard Bevan and has a very real objective at its core. There have been 54 sackings across the 92 league clubs in the last year alone, a figure which hits 140 when coaching staff are included. The aim of this new scheme is to stem the culture of firing bosses by offering support before the point where jobs are in jeopardy.

Ultimately, the phone could become mightier than the.. er... sword, or even the pen:

Top coaches like Venables, George Graham and Howard Wilkinson could be just a phone call away. The project could also save clubs a fortune. Chelsea alone have forked out around £30million to the last three managers sacked at Stamford Bridge - Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant and Luiz Felipe Scolari. In future, money may well be the reason a chairman picks up the phone rather than his manager's P45 when results are below-par.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the Glazer stories of yesterday continues apace. The Independent's Sam Wallace says that the American family have fallen into a trap set for Roman Abramovich.

Without the £80m sale of Cristiano Ronaldo in June, the club would have posted a loss of £30.8m in their last financial results because of the £41.9m profits re-directed to service the loans taken out by the Glazer family to buy the club. But United's debts, as outlined in the details of their bond prospectus, could yet have wider implications.

Among the "risk factors" that the club identified for the benefit of potential investors in their latest bond prospectus was the threat posed by Uefa's new rules on clubs with debt. Under the "financial fair play" initiative that will be introduced at the beginning of the 2013-14 season, clubs wishing to play in the Champions League will have to demonstrate to European football's governing body that they can balance their books.

In the bond prospectus United identify the risk that Uefa's financial fair play initiative could become a problem for any club that has become so heavily indebted. Yesterday, sources at Uefa confirmed that this would be the case. They pointed out that United would have another three and a half years to address the matter of their debt, although even in that timeframe there is no guarantee they could do so.

The Uefa president, Michel Platini, calls the initiative the end to "success on credit" and it was aimed at clubs such as Chelsea and latterly Manchester City who have spent far beyond the revenue they have generated. Back in the pre-Glazer plc days, it would have been hard to imagine that it might apply to United.

Ultimately, they may be forced to follow the examples of others, or sell on:

Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea, and Sheikh Mansour, Manchester City's owner, have both converted their extraordinary investment in their clubs into equity in order to fall into line with the new Uefa rules. Making the debt disappear at United will require much wealthier owners than the Glazers.