Why “probably for a bargain”? He has a contract until 2025 and is not exactly high profile enough to really force a move. He is legitimately someone who we could potentially stick in the reserves or send on loan again if we weren’t offered a fee we thought acceptable and he refused to play
At the time it very much felt like he needed to go but it now feels like a huge mistake. But that’s hindsight. The group of players we have now are players I feel would have thrived under RH but we decided to get a bunch of them after sacking him. Almost sounds like it’s just bad choices from the top down.
I have all the respect in the World for Ralph but it wasn’t a mistake, it’s just that we have somehow managed to appoint an utter turd as replacement, while other PL clubs around us have managed to appoint the likes of Emery and Lopetegui. Imo RH was taking us down in 18th and we traded for Jones who is taking us down in 20th.
Getting rid of Hassenhuttl wasn’t a bad decision, replacing him with Jones was. In hindsight they should’ve binned Hassenhuttl at the end of last season. Then if they still went with Jones he probably would’ve been gone by now
It feels like such a huge mistake because the replacement is a 1000 times worse. With bad management appointments you need to look at who made them like with Rupert Lowe and Les Reed.
Yeah, Ralph isn’t coming back. The board only said on Tuesday how relationships between him and some players had gone. I get the desperation for anyone but Jones, but they won’t go for Ralph. They’d look even more clueless than they already do.
The problem is that it didn't need hindsight. I thought that it was very, very clear that the Leicester game at the end of last season should have been Ralph's last game. Give a new manager the chance to have a full pre-season. And with the back-up option of being able to make another change at the WC break, if said appointment wasn't working out. Yet another thing which SR got wrong. They've been awful for us so far, aside from their willingness to spend money.
I don’t know. I think if you were to say at the end of last season “we are going to spend about £70m on players this summer, bringing in 10 players, do you think Ralph deserves a chance?” On here I think the majority would’ve said give him that chance.
Sadly Ralph was his own worst enemy. The press made his reputation and made us a competitive team with an identity, yet for reasons unknown, he abandoned it and we became the disorganised team we see now. If he had kept pressing and we had continued to be competitive, I would still be backing him now, and we wouldn’t be, IMO, in trouble.
