***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19

[Spark]

certain to be the best united manager for years to come then

the illustrious "sam allardyce @ england" tier of managers

 

[Niall]

I expect he'll be glad as well tbh.

Gets to jump ship from a situation that was basically beyond saving, gets a nice break over the Christmas period, and a ten figure payout. Not a bad life.

Difficult to see where he ends up next, but someone will have him. Possibly time for him to enter the international arena.

People have been speculating that he may just chill and wait for the Inter/Portugal or even PSG job to become open.

I know their is issues elsewhere, as they desperately need a DOF and Woodward needs to be kept away from big the pitch, but he needed to go.

Their is no point in keeping him employed if he is not winning, awful football, alienating players and doing nothing with the young guys.

The moaning about having no centre halfs ffs, he was given replacements for chunky fees who I assume were delighted to hear they were ****.

50 million midfielder who could not even get onto the bench the other day.

On reflection the only attacking player who will be anyway upset to see him go will be Lingard, the others have regressed or stalled with him.

**** also.

 

[sledger]

I hope your including pence in that, i know we gave him a silly contract but....

£24m it'll cost us apparently. Which is probably enough for him to buy the centre back he so craves.

Ha yeah, oops, poor maths skills strike again.

 

[Niall]

No-one, it looks like. Carrick until the end of the season, which.... cant be worse?

I'll repeat what I've said every time recently, give it Solskjaer until the end of the season. He's our own Zidane in waiting....

I don't understand why anyone would want Ole, failure at Cardiff his only big job.

Blanc and Jardim are free right now.

Hopefully no Conte, fine manager, but they need to after Jose, Moyes ans LVG, need someone more progressive.

 

[Spark]

wegner is available

 

[sledger]

Part of me would actually love to see Wenger go to Utd and win the Premiership. Part of me would hate it as well mind you. But I am such a Wenger mark that I think I could get on board with it.

 

[Uppercut]

Jupp Heynckes maybe for interim?

 

[sledger]

 

[Niall]

Jupp Heynckes maybe for interim?

Bit left field for Woody I think.

 

[Uppercut]

Bit left field for Woody I think.

Is it? I can't think of anyone else with that profile who would be happy to take the job on an interim basis.

Unless it's... Fergie Time.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Jupp Heynckes maybe for interim?

won't get a work permit past 30 March

 

[Uppercut]

won't get a work permit past 30 March

We'll find him an Irish granny. There are ways round these things.

 

[andmark]

I remember hearing Mourinho's release clause was something like £12 million. If you were confident that by buying a player for that amount in the January transfer window would improve the team in the second half of the season, you'd do it. It surely makes sense then that the same logic would apply to the manager.

 

[Spark]

I remember hearing Mourinho's release clause was something like £12 million. If you were confident that by buying a player for that amount in the January transfer window would improve the team in the second half of the season, you'd do it. It surely makes sense then that the same logic would apply to the manager.

It's 24

 

[cpr]

I don't understand why anyone would want Ole, failure at Cardiff his only big job.

Blanc and Jardim are free right now.

Hopefully no Conte, fine manager, but they need to after Jose, Moyes ans LVG, need someone more progressive.

Well its an interim role until the end of the season, so its not a huge commitment. But the Zidane in waiting comment was a nod to that that he too was a club legend with no managerial experience who lead them to success.

But Cardiff, that was a failure bound to happen, it was mad he took the job really, should have waited for a team that wasn't bang on relegation fodder. Before that he'd lead Molde to their first ever titles, and has gone back and finished 2nd in the last two seasons.
It's what he can bring to the team for 6 months though, not too dissimilar to Zidane at Real. He knows the club, its philosophy, and what football the fans want, and every fan will be wishing him to do well and getting behind him. He's worked with a number of the players in his role as reserves manager (Pogba, Lingard) and hopefully has their respect, at least to start with, and the other players will know that he's a club legend who fired us to glory from 5 yards. This season's a loss anyway, so it wouldn't cost us anything to have him whilst we search for a permanent replacement, but if he does do a Zidane and flourishes then......

 

[andmark]

It's 24

Ah. Even then, the argument probably still stands especially given just how bad he's been with a squad which really should be doing better.

 

[Uppercut]

Well its an interim role until the end of the season, so its not a huge commitment. But the Zidane in waiting comment was a nod to that that he too was a club legend with no managerial experience who lead them to success.

But Cardiff, that was a failure bound to happen, it was mad he took the job really, should have waited for a team that wasn't bang on relegation fodder. Before that he'd lead Molde to their first ever titles, and has gone back and finished 2nd in the last two seasons.
It's what he can bring to the team for 6 months though, not too dissimilar to Zidane at Real. He knows the club, its philosophy, and what football the fans want, and every fan will be wishing him to do well and getting behind him. He's worked with a number of the players in his role as reserves manager (Pogba, Lingard) and hopefully has their respect, at least to start with, and the other players will know that he's a club legend who fired us to glory from 5 yards. This season's a loss anyway, so it wouldn't cost us anything to have him whilst we search for a permanent replacement, but if he does do a Zidane and flourishes then......

I thought you were joking about Solskjaer but his reputation as a manager is the absolute pits. He didn't get another half-decent job after Cardiff because there are hundreds of stories circulating about how comically dire he was.

Unfortunately I don't know the details.

 

[Uppercut]

Ah. Even then, the argument probably still stands especially given just how bad he's been with a squad which really should be doing better.

We'd have lost Martial on a free by not sacking Mourinho and I reckon Martial is worth around triple that.

Might lose him anyway but this way we at least have a chance of keeping him.

 

[cpr]

I thought you were joking about Solskjaer but his reputation as a manager is the absolute pits. He didn't get another half-decent job after Cardiff because there are hundreds of stories circulating about how comically dire he was.

Unfortunately I don't know the details.

Let me keep my little dream, OK

Besides, comically dire is slightly more entertaining than excruciatingly dire


Just chatting to a Cardiff supporting acquaintance, and one of the things he said is Ole just didn't have the balls for man-management, even when they played well he'd rotate the team just to keep everyone happy - 'Tombola Teamsheet' was the description.

Though given Jose rotated the team every week to keep the squad unhappy, i'll take it.

 

[cpr]

Mind you, SSN have been making a big thing about a 'club source' stating the interim boss is someone the media will enjoy working with, leading one person to point out O'Neill is currently unemployed.

This is starting to feel like seeing the bike shaped gift under the Christmas tree only to find its 2 bin lids and some scaffolding.