Football FanCast columnist David Mooney is appalled at the apparent reports that Sven will lose his job at the end of the season and wonders why the club always feel the ‘sack the manager, solve the problems' attitude is the way forward.

It is utter madness. A BBC source has revealed yesterday that Thaksin Shinawatra will sack Sven from his position as Man City manager at the end of the season. It's not, apparently, a case of if, but a case of when.

Now, City fans have been disappointed with the club's form after Christmas, and I'm sure the chairman has too. However, the fact of the matter is, last season, the club were on the brink of relegation and this season it is guaranteed a top half finish.

As part of Eriksson's ‘five year plan' with Shinawatra, I'm guessing the first year was not finish in the top four. And I'm also guessing it was neither to finish in the top six. I'm going to hazard a guess, because, let's face it, Sven's a sensible man and he knows what he's doing; that the target was top 10.

What kind of message does it send out if the chairman is willing to sack the manager when that season's objective has been attained?

Words cannot convey exactly how furious I am at this decision. Sven is building a team - he signed a whole host of players in the summer, most of which have turned out to be good buys. And now a new manager will come in, decide he doesn't like half of Sven's signings because they don't fit in with how he wants to play, and suddenly, we're looking at a summer that's exactly the same as last.

There's potential there for a vicious circle - where the next manager achieves only a top 10 place, and is sacked for it.

Now, I have no desire to entertain thoughts that Thaksin is lining up a move for Mourinho, or whether he has sorted out transfers for Ronaldinho and Jo, but, if these are true, then I will be even more furious. Not that the signings will take place, but that the chairman has initiated them. It should be the manager's decision on who to bring in as playing staff. Chairmen who interfere always have devastating effect.

Chopping and changing manager has never got anybody anywhere. Sven hasn't done much wrong - he's made one or two mistakes, granted, but who doesn't? He's the first City manager to have won two derbies in a season in a very long time and he has been trying to get City to play free flowing, entertaining football.

Did Mourinho's Chelsea do that? Or do we want City to become a machine, built to win games 1-0?

The one person who will come out of this whole affair with any credibility will be Sven. According to the BBC source, he reacted calmly to the news and will be in charge for the final two games, but will lose his job after that. I certainly wouldn't have been able to remain in charge knowing I'd been treated as badly as Sven has so fair play to him.

It would seem that, despite the chairman changing a fair few times in this club's recent history, the attitude of ‘sack the manager, solve the problems' remains. I hope to God - or whichever deity you may or may not believe in - that these reports are misinformed, but I fear they're not. If the club sack Sven, then I think I will be completely disillusioned with them.

Thaksin wants a new manager and some new players to draw in crowds, which proves to me one thing. Under the reign of Thaksin, we're not football fans, but simply the unfortunate by-product of a ticket sale. And Thaksin knows that fans - myself included - are fickle. A single sniff of a trophy and European qualification next season and everything I've written here will be forgotten, simply because Manchester City are one of the loves of my life.

Unfortunately, I am not able to get to the final two away games of the season, but I urge anyone who will be there to sing - constantly and as loud as they can - the name of the manager. We cannot control whether he is sacked or not, but we can, at least, tell him he has our support.

Thank you for all your hard work, Sven. And I am, as are 99.9% of the fans, disappointed to see that it has ended this way.