Because it makes him seem like a delicate wallflower. He looks run into the ground this season already and we're 20 games in. He isn't a neurosurgeon on daily 12 hour shifts. For most of his managerial career he's been in charge of teams that frankly 99 times out of 100 would win their next game if he decided to pull a sickie and had a lie in that week. He's not delicate porcelain, he's a football manager. A well paid football manager with facilities and support and assistance upon which he can lean on to assist him in the job he's asked to do that 99.99% of football managers will never get, yet most manage to get through life without feeling the need to pause their careers for a rest. At least not in their early to mid 40s.
Suspicious how he only seems to need these sabbaticals when things aren't going so well. Madrid finally win a title? Suddenly he needs a rest. City's recent results haven't been so good? Suddenly people suggest he should have taken a year out. His need for a break seems to coincide with a downturn in fortunes for his team with the striking regularity as a school child claiming to be unwell on Sunday night with double maths in the morning.
I don't buy it and I'll admit to being (perhaps irrationally) annoyed by it.
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