For me, I'm going with the following:- Best: Alan Pardew To have finished 5th, above Chelsea and 'Pool, only a season after coming back into the top flight, and having lost three key players, was a remarkable achievement, by any standards. With a combination of shrewd signings and astute tactical knowledge, Pardew has demonstrated that you don't need an expensively assembled squad or a foreign surname to put one over on teams far richer than you. Worst: Kenny Dalglish Having spent (and wasted) over £100 million on a small batch of players, and having at his command one of the biggest club names in world football, Kenny-boy steered the mighty 'Pool to a dismal 8th in the league table, finishing with a points tally that was closer to the bottom than it was to the top, and the worst in 53 years for the club. His handling of Klan-gate was a PR fiasco for the new Yanky owner, and a part of the club's history that he will be very keen to forget, although I am not so sure that it will be that easy. From being revered as the Club's "king" and saviour, he ended up reducing it to a laughing-stock before the world, and I am not sure that the laughter has ended yet.
Hard choices, but I'd probably go with Pardew and McLeish. Villa have fallen a long way in a short time and they play crap football, too.
Terry Connor was the worst - ridiculously out of his depth, and only got the job because of Jez Moxley's delusion of Wolves becoming a top six club when they were always going to be in the bottom four.
I'd agree Croydon, but I find it hard to even see Connor as a manager. I see him more as Wolves' resignation from the Premier League. We still somehow managed to draw with them at home, though.
Best. Mancini. He managed to control a lot of big time egos, and win the league. Worst. Redknapp. 10? Points clear of Arsenal in 3rd and managed to blow it and not get CL qualification. He wanted the England job, and screwed spurs season because of selfishness and delusions of grandeur. Thinks he's something he's not, ie a decent manager.
I do sincerely hope that this was said with tongue firmly in cheek? Otherwise it would seem that mouser self-delusion has reached ever new heights. Yes, Harry ****ed up - took his eye off the ball, etc. However, compared to your recently dethroned " king", he's a ****ing genius!! £120mm - pissed up the wall on grossly overpriced players - and all for what?? For the worst finish you've had in Premiership history
The OP asks for opinions. I gave mine. By the way, who's the 'king'? The king is dead, long live the buck.
Yes, you gave your opinion, and I gave mine, that I didn't think much of your opinion. In fact, one might almost think it was a rather poorly disguised Wum attempt!!
Best, Pardew, by a sheer county mile. Shan't lie, I put a tenner on them to go down at the start of the season, how wrong can you be? Connor or Dogleash.... The indecision is killing me. Although I think Kean was up against it from the start, he didn't have a hope in hell.
See, with the likes of Connor and Kean, I refuse to bracket them as "worst" because the situations each of those two were placed in they really couldn't have done any better. And, yes, McLeish was tripe, but did anyone really expect him to succeed. I doubt the media did, especially given the fact that Villa seem to lack any kind of pot to piss in. With Dalglish, however, he had everything. Adoring fans, a big-named club, media indulgence, not to mention the small matter of £100 million. And, yet, he still managed to completely balls it up!
I think that McLeish's failure was far more emphatic than Dalglish's though, HIAG. If you'd have offered Liverpool fans a trophy and a top half finish at the start of the season, then some will have taken it. Not what they'd have hoped for, but not a total disaster, by any means. I don't think any Villa fan would've accepted a dour campaign of narrow relegation avoidance, featuring a number of cowardly surrenders. Did Liverpool progress? Not really and certainly not as much as their investment should've resulted in. Did Villa progress? Hell no. They appeared to find reverse gears that nobody even knew existed. A flawed appointment from the off, marred by some bad luck and dire tactics. Lambert's job should be immensely secure for the foreseeable future.
Why are Pool fans on here seemingly having an issue that KD was the poorest manager in the league..considering everything at his disposal..and all that he actually disposed of(£)? the owner seems to agree with us.
thats just a misjudged statement due to you being extremely defensive..for a start i doubt we would have had such an issue had we blown 110 million..Redknapp may have blown it..but he would have blown it on better players than the 3 English players Pool got. and id rather lose a 10 point lead than to not even have sniffed a 10 point lead...at least it shows that we can do it..however we have a few things to work on...that can be sorted ..definetly would be sorted with 100million to blow
