Scolari sacking to prove costly

Chelsea's decision to sack Luiz Felipe Scolari as their manager could cost the Premier League side up to 15 million pounds (22 million dollars) in compensation.
Scolari, who guided his native Brazil to World Cup glory, was booted out of Stamford Bridge here on Monday just eight months into a three-year deal worth an estimated annual six million pounds.
Getting rid of Jose Mourinho as manager in 2007 and then firing his successor Avram Grant, a matter of months after the Israeli signed a new four-year deal, would not have come cheap, even to a club bankrolled by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
The total cost of sacking these three managers could be as much as 40 million pounds, a sum which threatens to make a mockery of Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon's oft-repeated assertion that the London club will become "operationally independent" by 2010.
In the meantime Abramovich's money, never mind the current squad, should still make Chelsea an enticing prospect for their would-be managers.
However, Abramovich's impatience may cause some candidates to think twice about the job.