Be better off in the Earl De Grey better class of clientele if it was still open . Probably be cheaper and save him some money.
His lack of plan B (or stubbornness) was annoying, I agree. However when Acun took over we were on a good run. I felt he deserved a transfer window and some cash to spend having had to play with every card Ehab dealt him. We will never know how it would have panned out, or if he would have been allowed to choose his own signings, but I felt it was a mistake to sack him and bring Shota in at that time.
Top half may have been over optimistic but mid table was well within reach. I did say I’m pretty sure the expectations would have been a bit more than surviving on goal difference on the final day and got shut down that survival was the only aim. The performances were shocking too which is probably the main thing. If we’d played well in even half our games and finished somewhere 12-18th I bet Selles would still be here. At the end of the day spending the way he is every season is costing a ****ing fortune so why would you risk writing off another season to give a manager more time just because, when there’s been little evidence to show that things will improve?
I didn't hear it as Acun expecting top half and pushing for top 6 FROM WHEN SELLES TOOK OVER (as some are claiming). I heard it as being simply: a) the mutual expectation wasn't that we would just escape relegation by goal difference i.e. it was to be better than that. and then b) that the ongoing aim is top half and into top 6 i.e. he wants the club to be successful. He spoke about the one goal from open play in 8 (or whatever it was), and that 1 was a deflected shot. Quite rightly he was far from satisfied with that. And, reading between the lines, without him pushing Selles under a bus, it sounded pretty clear that there was other stuff that we don't see / don't know about that led to him, Dublin and Hodges concluding they didn't have enough faith that he was the right man to take us forward. Perhaps things like the signing of Joseph (I'm just guessing from bits that were said). Mike White asked the tough questions tbf, but for me his interview approach was at times embarrassing, and he turned it into a tortuous, unnecessarily repetitive, and negative listen at times. Ask the necessary question, get the answer, move on. I know it's a fine line to tread, and a balance to keep, but I didn't think he did it particularly well.
Plenty of news in Turkey stating that inside Fenerbahce board Acun and Hakan Safi are opposing each other, there is tension between them. Safi is one our sponsors right, how long are their deals?
Mike White appears to want to get a job on Talk TV. He is trying too hard for someone who is working for local BBC radio. Burnsy appears to have been more difficult to replace than Alex Feguson.
You appear to be trying too hard to defend Acun also. White was pretty good, during interview, did his job well.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I don’t quite know how I’ll be able to sleep tonight knowing this.
Not really. Just not wetting myself over things I've got zero control over. What will be, will be. I'm glad you found Mike White to be entertaining. You really should try Kofi Smiles.
When Selles got his hands on the team we were bottom of the league with 15pts from 19 games. To get in the playoffs we'd have needed to average 2pts per game for 27 games with a team that had only won 3 games before he joined. Even an 11th place finish would have required us to get the same PPG that Coventry did in the same period. Madness
Not much, but getting someone stepping in to manage a bottom of the table team and wanting play-off form is naive as ****
There wasn’t anything wrong with Assem, bar his blinded role in the Hull Tiggers rubbish. I’ll never agree with you on Ehab though. An odious pr1ck who got his hands and Daddies toy and made a complete hash of it. The only positive thing he ever did was not sell us to Dai Yonge and co.
Everyone hoped for better than "just enough". We played badly the last few games, but why? Maybe Selles didnt tell them to play well? Why didn't the players think to try and score some goals? Are they stupid?
