Gus Poyet admits it is all getting a bit crazy in the world of football management.

But the Albion chief insists he has no fears about entering a notoriously cut throat profession.

Seven league games into life in charge of the Seagulls, the first-time manager is able to joke about needing to start winning games to keep his job.

With an 18-month contract, three transfer windows ahead of him and signs that performances are on the up, everything is in place for him to show what he can do as his own man.

But he admits he, like his colleagues around the league, are ultimately at the mercy of those in the boardroom who hire the managers and those on the pitch who fire in the goals.

Poyet was being asked whether events at Manchester City had made him question his own decision to move into management.

Many Albion fans returning from Swindon on Saturday will have listened on their car radios to the drama being played out at Eastlands, where Mark Hughes was removed as boss and Roberto Mancini named as his successor.

Hughes departed after two defeats so far in the Premier League season.

Poyet’s take on the episode? “When something like this happens it confirms something that we know. Football is getting crazy.

“It doesn’t matter the price, it doesn’t matter the time, it doesn’t matter if you are in situation like mine where everybody knows the team was made three months ago.

“If somebody tells me you don’t need time to make a team, it’s because he doesn’t understand about football.

“It is not about bringing in people and putting them together and the next day they are playing football and understanding what you want them to do.

“They make decisions, they are in charge of the club and unfortunately for the manager we have to accept it.

“But that’s the moment we don’t really like football.

“It doesn’t matter how hard you work, how well you do things even if it looks like the players are going to accept it’s the right way.

“You are still in the hands of someone else. I’m aware of it, don’t worry about that.”

Then he added with a laugh: “So I need to make sure I start winning games!”