LONDON -- For his first managerial job, Jaap Stam hasnt taken an easy option.A Premier League and Champions League winner as a Manchester United player , the Dutchman has entered the dugout in a league with little job security and where the financial stakes are among the highest in soccer.Looking around the League Championship, English soccers second tier, the Reading manager knows his illustrious playing career will count for little if theres a slump in form.Six of the leagues 24 managers have been fired this month as clubs chase a place in the Premier League and a $200 million-plus jackpot.I can understand all the teams want to go to the Premier League as quick as they can because theres a big pile of (cash) over there, Stam said. Managers need to have time to work on the team to get a certain chemistry within the group to eventually be promoted.Two months into the season, only one Premier League manager has lost his job. Two were booted out by second-tier clubs within a few hours on Tuesday.Walter Zenga, a former Italy goalkeeper, lasted 87 days at Wolverhampton Wanderers before the club decided being 18th in the 24-team division was not good enough. Gary Caldwell led Wigan back into the League Championship from the third tier but has been dismissed from his first senior managerial role after 18 months.October started with Aston Villa firing Roberto Di Matteo, who won the Champions League during a brief spell as Chelsea manager in 2013. Alan Stubbs (Rotherham), Nigel Pearson (Derby) and Paul Trollope (Cardiff) joined Di Matteo in the ranks of unemployed coaches.Every team apart from Rotherham to fire their mangers this month has played in the Premier League. A team can make about 170 million pounds ($208 million) from the Premier League even if it is immediately relegated again thanks to the valuable television contracts and parachute payments to soften the blow for demoted teams.Thai-owned Reading is one of 11 Championship teams with foreign investors seeking the prestige of a place in the top division. Four of the six teams to fire coaches in October are under overseas ownership, with Wolves and Villa the latest Chinese acquisitions.Wigan has enjoyed recent success, winning the FA Cup in 2013, but was relegated the same season from the Premier League and plummeted to third tier. Caldwell, a former Scotland midfielder, was fired on Tuesday with Wigan second-from-last after 14 matches.We deservedly won the League One title last season, said Wigan chairman David Sharpe, whose grandfather -- Dave Whelan -- owns the northwest team.However, we have not managed to carry on that momentum into this season and, after careful consideration over a period of time, I feel that we need to act now in the best long-term interests of the club.Reading was relegated from the Premier League in 2013. It is now eighth in the Championship, only a point from the playoff places, so Stam should be safe -- for now. A bad run of results can change everything, especially at a team that is working for its fourth manager in two years.Everybody working in the Championship knows that that (being fired) is possible, said Stam, who has previously worked on the Ajax coaching staff. 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The 15th-ranked Canadian men lost the opening two games of their European tour: 19-15 to No. 17 Georgia and 21-20 to No. Ryan Hoffman has endorsed Kieran Foran as the type of winner the Warriors desperately need to help the NRLs most enigmatic line-up finally break their premiership duck.Foran is yet to receive the green light from the NRL to resume playing following his well-documented struggles with mental illness, but is hopeful of resurrecting his career in his native New Zealand next season.The former Kiwi international is undergoing shoulder rehab at the Warriors, with the club confident the league approves his registration - hopefully by Christmas.With Cronulla landing their maiden title in 2016, after North Queensland broke through last year, the Warriors and Gold Coast are now the only two teams in the competition without a premiership.Hoffman has personally won three with Melbourne, though two were later stripped for the Storms salary-cap breaches.With a qualified opinion, the classy back-rower believes Foran - who guided Manly to the 2011 premiership - is exactly what the Warriors need to go to the next level in 2017.Just his status in the game. Hes a bloke thats done everything - thats a winner, Hoffman told AAP at Wednesdays Auckland Nines launch in Sydney.Hes a successful player, he knows what winning looks like and he knows what it takes to win so hell be a great example for a lot of our players.Hoffman also believes Foran would be the perfect foil for the Warriors go-to man and former Golden Boot winner Shaun Johnson.Hes a premiership-wiinning ball-player and we lost a very, very good five-eighth in Thomas Leuluai last year, he said.ddddddddddddTo hopefully get another one like Kieran come along would put us in the right direction and take a little bit of pressure off Shaun as well.Despite their star-studded roster, the Warriors have failed to make the finals since losing to Manly in the 2011 decider and Hoffman says fans have every right to be frustrated at the sides unpredictable nature.Youd love to know the magic formula (of success). Youd probably sell it for a million dollars, he said.But its a mental thing with us. Its about making sure our head space is in the right direction.Basically for the Warriors its going to be about us being comfortable about being uncomfortable. For every person in the club, we need to make sure were working hard for the greater good of the team.With Kiwi great Stephen Kearney replacing Andrew McFadden as head coach in 2017, Hoffman is confident the Warriors can deliver.Our focus in 2017 is playing to our potential, he said.Its going to be playing the way the Warriors should and need to play and its a bit of a fresh start but a fresh start with a bit of continuity with Andrew being involved but having Steve coming in.Its been a good pre-season but the proofs going to be in the pudding come the NRL season. ' ' '