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Sounds a lot like what a young Wenger did for us in the beginning - "He's improved the players' fitness levels, their tactical awareness and their style of play. Goes to show what a different manager can do if you give them a chance"

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Tony Adams first game in charge at Grenada is currently seeing him on the end of a 0-3 home defeat.

 

Very surprised he is so **** at management after playing under Bloke in a Coat and Wenger for so many years.
It appears he learned more from Rioch!

 

Arry's Back!

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Birmingham City: Harry Redknapp named manager after Gianfranco Zola's resignation
Birmingham City have appointed Harry Redknapp as their new manager.

The ex-West Ham, Tottenham and QPR boss succeeds Gianfranco Zola, who resigned on Monday after a 2-0 defeat by fellow Championship strugglers Burton Albion.

Blues are 20th in the table, three points above the relegation zone with three games left, and travel to local rivals Aston Villa on Sunday.

"Birmingham are a proper football club but they are in a precarious position," Redknapp, 70, told Talksport.

Redknapp, who will be assisted by former Bristol City boss Steve Cotterill, said: "I got a phone call last night at 7pm from the people at Birmingham.

"I drove to London and had a 10-15-minute meeting with them and said: 'I'll come and do it.'

"My wife said to me 'are you mad or what?' but I get fed up sitting around doing nothing."

Blues could be in the relegation zone by the time Redknapp takes charge of his first match.

Should Blackburn and Nottingham Forest both win on Saturday, Birmingham would slip into the bottom three.

After facing Villa, Blues host promotion-chasing Huddersfield Town before visiting Bristol City on the final day of the regular season.

"It's a real challenge," said Redknapp. "I'll live up there until the end of the season, and if I keep them up I'll sit down and talk about next season.

"It's not really a risk. They have won two out 22. I haven't got a magic wand. I'm not going to turn them into Real Madrid. We need a win."

Good to see the legend back! Let's hope he doesn't bankrupt them like the other clubs...

 

Juve have just given a masterclass on how to beat Barca. Humped them 3-0 at home in the first leg and completely shut them out at the Nou Camp tonight.

Would be amazing if we could Allegri to whip our lot into shape.

 

If he wins the CL, he might want a fresh challenge, only problem is a stubborn Frenchmen refusing to **** off.

 

Jardim should also be a target, the job he has done with Monaco has been stunning this season.

 

And a useless ****ing Board that won't do anything other than march to the tune of Wenger. It's bloody infuriating how we've stayed stagnant when there are so many better managers out there, yet we are STILL talking about giving Wenger a contract extension when he's been past it years ago. Well as long as we can talk about what Wenger did in the past and how much of a Legend he is/was, then it's all good.

 

He's done a brilliant job with them this season.

Anybody else think Jardim looks like a cross between Zinedine Zidane and Arjen Robben ?

 

PFA team of the year, 4 Spurs and 4 Chelsea players. Goes to show how dreadful our players have been. Though I would have had Sanchez.

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No it doesn't. Ours players constantly get overlooked even when they do have a decent Season.

Hazard & Mane getting in there vs Sanchez for example..

Hazard
Apps: 34 Goals 14 Assists: 4

Mane
Apps: 30 Goals 13 Assists: 8

Sanchez
Apps: 40 Goals 22 Assists 18!

The media is too ****ing biased against us its a joke. Sanchez could score 50 goals and still wouldn't win ****.

 

Sanchez has spent most of the season playing upfront as a striker.
Mane and Hazard are attacking wingers.

 

No he has spent MOST of the Season on the wing. Has played some games upfront.

He will hit 25+ goals and 20+ assist by the end of the Season. He should be in the side.

In fact there's a strong argument for him being the best player in the EPL. He scored more winners than any other player. Could conceiveably break the assists record all the while playing in a side who have been terrible all Season.

 

I agree Sanchez should have been in the lineup, but the majority of our players have been toilet, so just him.

 

I'm with the Bear, Sanchez has been one of the best players in the league and kept our decrepit season campaign alive.

 

From a Spurs perspective Sanchez definitely should have been in there. He's top of the power rankings as well so it's stupid he doesn't make the team. When you watch Arsenal, no disrespect to the other players, he is clearly a level above.

 

I would have Sanchez over Mane too. And definitely Alderweireld and Vertonghen over Cahill (wtf!) and Luiz

 

So would I

 

whilst i agree about Sanchez not sure why you're blaming media bias when it is the PFA vote ?

 

I wouldn't worry too much, next season when Sanchez is playing for us or City, I am sure he will get the recognition he deserves