Liverpool chasing Firmino according to the Metro. http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/13/liver...ith-hoffenheim-star-roberto-firmino-4760860/?
Baggies fans must be annoyed and disappointed with this. Why Alan Irvine? He's been out of a managerial job for 3 years, after being sacked by a club in the bottom half of League One. There are managers out there, who aren't currently employed, who are surely more qualified than him.
Agree with most of that except he's rarely been out of work. Has been at Everton since 2011 as academy coach.
Baggies are furious. To be fair it's the sort of appointment we would have made pre Liebherr. It just shows how far we have come when our short list included the likes of Koeman, Mancini, Ranieri... .....it wasn't so long ago I would have classified West Brom as a club with similar ambitions to our own. I really feel for them. They deserve better.
Seems a backward step from Steve Clarke even. Our board have got plenty of stick over the last six months and you could argue certain parallels as key members of our boards have both left in Cortese and Ashworth but although its early days this summer I feel a lot more comfortable as a Saints fan. WBA don't seem to have much a clue on the football side and looking to do things on the cheap. Irvine will turn out to be the new Brendan Rodgers now
Apparently he was close to getting the job a few years back, but WBA instead decided on Di Matteo. Obviously the chairman still remembers that, and has decided he'll give Irvine his chance now. I'd be furious if I were a WBA fan.
Maybe he's really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really good at interviews.
I think Arsenal might be intending to 'flip' this deal. For that price they will get him back in and then sell him on for a much bigger fee.
Jez Peace doesn't seem to have a clue. It was funny when he tried to completely copy us by appointing someone out of Spain. Pepe Mel was just the one who happened to be unemployed at the time.
Everyone was saying the same thing about Brendan Rodgers when he became Swans manager having failed at reading and been a academy manager before that...You can never tell how things will turn out at the end of the day as he may flop at one club and be a success at another club...
True, but you were Championship at the time. Unusual for a manager to fail at a league one side and then end up at a premier league side
