Martin George was arguably the best chairman that this club has ever had at appointing quality managers. He was often quoted as saying that he always knew who his next (target) manager was, even when he had one in place, because of the speed that managers can depart. My worry is that Top and his Father had know idea who their next manager was before this weekend and consequently we might well have a managerial void for a while. Thoughts ?
I personally think that someone will be in fairly quickly, they wouldn't have got rid of Sven without having some sort of game plan. Remember Faz is out too, so we are down to coaches sorting out the team (It worked for Powell though before we got Sven ) Maybe not before WHU, but def before Leeds i recon, even if its just a manager that will watch them against Leeds.
Martin George was arguably the best chairman that this club has ever had at appointing quality managers. He was often quoted as saying that he always knew who his next (target) manager was, even when he had one in place, because of the speed that managers can depart. Pity he had short arms and deep pockets! At least Top and Dad put their money where their mouths are.
I think Andrew Neville will have a lot to do with appointing a new manager. He knows the club inside out and knows MON very well My only worry with MON coming back is that if he does come back people are going to expect the same things. There is no Muzzy Izzet sitting in the Chelsea reserves who we can sign but Matt Mills looks like the new Matt Elliott and Jeff Schlupp can be the new Heskey
Interesting to hear Alan Young on EMT. He reckons O'Neill would have ruled himself out already if he had no interest. Lennon said it would be a great challenge for O'Neill. Claridge made little sense, as usual. The Leeds fans said a lot of racist stuff.
Lets stop with the comparisons from last time! Aparently MON would have come out and ruled himself out by now unless he was interested and thinking over the offer? 'The silence from him is defening' it said on the BBC news
alan young knows about us much as we do... conjecture and speculation.. but if MON came back, would he be unsackable? I dread to think what would happen if things didn't work out for him straight away...the fact is any managers fate is in the hands of dodgy refs...selfish and inconsistent players..and the roll of the ball...does he need it here?who knows..
I don't think O'Neill will come but I'm enjoying all the speculation whilst it's happening! The answer to whether or not he would unsackable is definitely - no. But O'Neill is a different kind of manager to Sven and would, I'm sure get...different results. Regarding those factors you mentioned - all managers have to contend with all those in every job. It's never stopped Ferguson from winning things season after season. So I wouldn't say Sven appears to have underachieved due to influences outside of his control. More to the point is, considering on Saturday we were two points from 2nd place with a quarter of the season to go, are we even underachieving at all? Let alone enough to justify sacking the manager? Have the board been too impatient? There's bound to be ups and downs, but it's a long season. I have to think Sven's wages have something to do with it. Why pay him a fortune, when virtually any manager could have done what he has done with this squad? But let's not forget who put this squad together. Who's influence brought in players we would never normally have been linked with. And now we have a settled, permanent squad and a team that is starting to gel, I think the hard work is done for whoever comes in. So WHEN we start to look the finished article, I just hope people remember the groundwork Sven put in.
Agreed. I think that one of the attractive things about this job is that it comes with a ready made squad that you would say, on paper, should be challenging for promotion with the right management.
I don't think people should listen to a word Youngy says tbh. He's talking more crap by the day. It seems to me they haven't got somebody lined up and to me, that seems naive to say the least. Unless you are in danger of going down, you should never sack your manager without a replacement lined up. This is similar to how went about buying a striker, landing ourselves in **** and rushing things and being left with the 3rd choice.
I don't think anyone is lined up because we have 5 days before a match and have a caretaker team. Obviously implies we'll be managerless for at least a week. I don't think we'll struggle to get someone, but as usual, it probably won't be first choice. Regarding Youngy, I do think the radio gig is getting to him a bit now and he's starting to make a lot of grand statements, but he also talks a lot of commonsense. However, all his comment really implies is that O'Neill hasn't ruled himself out immediately, which speaks for itself anyway. I'm not ruling myself at at this stage either (CVs in the post)!
My first thought was that they must have someone lined up - however the statement from Andrew Neville to Sky sports as the news broke suggested they have as much clue who the next manager will be as we do!
