Although my respect for Laudrup is incredible and always will be , he's team triva from here . I hope we pay him nothing , although he deserves the money and will gets it . To excited with Monk and the last 6 gamex . He brings it home hard , he should continue next season imo . Just having a bit of fun with my previous post apple , hope I didn't offend . Cheers
Learn how to write Roof. The rushed manner of your above post can only suggest two things: 1. You are irate 2. You are illiterate Neither are endearing qualities to try and put across a point of opinion.
Not meant as an insult in any way , shape or form ..... hope things are well , wish my 2 sons were still babys, so much fun has gone by . My disliteracy is from lake of schoolin
Forgive me. I have had a slight sleep issue lately and I have been feeling tetchy all weekend. Feel free to call me a jerk, you wouldn't be the first and I am one of them who said it. Glad your boys were raised well, can only hope I make the grade myself.
What till you turn your head to get the new diaper or powder and you turn back just in time to recieve a stream up your nose ............ laugh all you want but it will happen . Enjoy it project , it goes by quick.Cheers .
As I understand it, Laudrup made it clear that he wasn't keen on the idea. Jenkins wanted to pursue the discussion but Laudrup demurred saying, that with the Cardiff game so close, it wasn't a good time to talk about it. The pair shook hands on that and, later that day, Laudrup received the infamous email dismissing him. Talk about not having the guts, or the class, to do it to his face. I hope that the full facts do come to light but Laudrup is a highly intelligent man who can afford top class litigators. I doubt he would go to court unless he's very confident of a result. Mind you, IF he is demanding an extra £1 million for us staying up, which is not contracted for, that would be out of order and he won't/shouldn't get it. However, that demand seems to be pure conjecture from those determined to blacken his name. At the moment it's all rumour and counter rumour, which is why it would be so refreshing to get some facts put on the table.
That may be the case but until there is an official announcement from the club then it is still just rumour and conjecture.
He might have delivered the cup and top 10 in the league and a ko round in Europe, but Roberto Martinez will forever be higher than him in my opinion as he acheved more with regards to getting us to the championship and the chance in footballing philisophy he brought to the club.
But that's just it, it isn't rumour. This is fact, spoken by both Laudrup and Jenkins. If I am a manager of a bank, and the chairman, my boss, recognises that a number of my staff are under performing and negatively effecting business, he is well within his rights to ask me to sack them. If I refuse, I then become complicit in the under performance of the business and my position becomes untenable. As Ivor has mentioned, the manner in which the dismissal occurred is unsavoury, but it is also a fact that unsavoury behaviour is not uncommon at boardroom level. What is uncommon is for that behaviour to be made public, and there are, clearly, a number of fairly rudimentary reasons as to why Laudrup would want that to happen.
If that is what happened my respect for Laudrup has increased immeasurably and the board could be in for a very expensive legal case. Obviously a man of principle as his position regarding his work and the level of interference form the chairman was clear from the first days as manager at Swansea City. Unless his contract included specific requirements to dismiss staff whose contracts would have been with Swansea City not Laudrup it was their job to hire and fire, not the manager. He may have been requested to undertake the action but again the detail and timing of those requests would have had to have been discussed and have a written record. Although football is a 'world of its own' basic employment law remains. I'm not arguing for or against the outcome in terms of our remaining in the league but I am concerned the amateur, secretive and dictatorial actions of an individual or small group may have a serious cost in terms of finance and reputation.
That he was at the helm during our most successful period means that he will, quite rightly, be "...forever linked with this club...". However it was ten years of sound financial management and shrewd boardroom decision making that delivered us our first piece of silverware and our highest ever league position, not Michael Laudrup.
Roberto Martinez for me too, he gave us the great foundation on which our game is played today, no contest as far as I'm concerned!.
There are a lot of people that brought the club to the point where it is, all added something. Certainly the games under Martinez were often exciting, dramatic and skillful. We also conceded so many with a poor defence, as you often pointed out Phil. Sousa gave us steel, the fantastic Rodgers got us to the hallowed Premiership, great play and some fantastic signing's, Borini, Sinclair, but still many said there was only one option, one style of play. The culmination was Laudrup who brought it all together, great signings, much better defence, great style. This led to our greatest ever season, Cup,European qualification, highest league position. This is fact, it will go down in the clubs history forever, in a 100 years people will still be referring to it and mentioning Laudrup. The rest is all opinion, opinion is like A/holes everyone has one and is entitled to one. I am trying not to mention Laudrup again as we have moved on, but I think everyone needs to do this as I will resond to critics.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, I must have missed it. Could you provide a link to the statement from Jenkins or the board?
Gendros Martinez was indeed clueless defensively, though I'm sure he's improved, but it was his football foundation that got us here in my view, though Kenny Jacket got the club on a professional footing, but Sousa turned our inept back line in to one of the best defences in the Championship, and he is our unsung hero as far as I see it, and was treated far worse than Laudrup. In the fullness of time I'm sure that Laudrup will have his rightful place, but I still think he was taking our game down the wrong road, and our performances proved it, you can make up all the excuses you like for him this season, but last season's collapse after the cup was a warning sign and there were no injuries, no Europa League to hide behind, and his style of football was suspect in my opinion, and I'm not sure whether tactically he was that good, but he certainly had big issues with motivating the dressing room, and that is a major flaw for any manager!...............
