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Jamie Carragher: 'Manager changes part of the game now'

Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes that the manager merry-go-round has become a culture of the English game.

Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes that managers losing their jobs suddenly has become part and parcel on the English game.

The veteran centre-back is to bow out from football when the season ends later today after 16 years at Anfield against Queens Park Rangers.

Carragher told the Daily Star: "The game's just going through how it was in the Italian and Spanish leagues 10 years ago. And we used to laugh and think, 'They're mad'. It's just the way the game has gone now.

"The managers might be ­disappointed to lose their job but it's a merry-go-round, isn't it? All those who have lost their job will be in one by next season.

"I think it's sad, though. Who likes to see managers lose their job? There's the [Roberto] Mancini ­situation but Mark Hughes lost his job when Mancini came in. I think the managers know that when they get sacked they get a decent payoff so it's not the end of the world, is it?"

Carragher has made over 700 appearances for Liverpool since making his debut in 1997 against Middlesbrough.

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