If Stones, who cant get a place in a poor England team, is worth 40/50m, What price is the manager they seem hell bent on worth ?
Brooking is a joke, good player, but a yes man if ever there was one, another Seb Coe imo. Another blazer. ( Bibliography Smug.)
Bri, I agree about the compo, but Sam is on a relatively short contract so for the FA to pay it up will be peanuts to them. FFS they were paying the last clown more than any manager at the Euro's so the 3 to 4 million we will get in compensation is a drop in the ocean, if we get anything at all.
Eh? Hear this all the time. Contracts aren't just valued at length. He's under contract with us, we can charge what we want. The FA don't set the compo we do! He's our manager! We can charge as much as we please, and we should be putting a high price on this inconvenience. You might be happy for the FA to **** us up the arse, rape us of a manager and transfer window and take nothing in the process and you clearly are if you think we're entitled to nowt. Not me. It's our contract. We could value it at 100 million if we so please. I'd be putting a 40m price on his head and adding a million a day until they make a formal approach to buy out his contract.
England are deep in the midst of their latest root and branch post-tournament inquest, but Michael Graham blasts them for catching Sunderland in the crossfire. Nobody said that it was going to be easy for England after their frankly humiliating Euro 2016 performance. There needed to be an inquest and it needed to messy. Heads had to roll and fresh options needed to be sought. That’s all fine. No complaints from me on that score at all. In fact, if the FA decided to just hang the lot of them and start again from fresh, I doubt there would be many dissenting voices after that summer debacle. What I do have a problem with, however, is the fact they have essentially dragged a Premier League club into limbo and holding it hostage while they take a leisurely stroll through their options. If the FA decide to go for an English manager, then it probably has to be Sam Allardyce. I accept that. He’s not an especially inspiring name, but when the alternatives are Steve Bruce and Alan Pardew, Big Sam suddenly looks comparatively good. But – and it’s a question very few seem to be asking – what of Sunderland in all this? How is this even remotely fair or respectful to them? The Black Cats kick off their Premier League campaign in less than a month at Manchester City, and right now, through no fault of their own for once, have absolutely no idea who will be in the dugout. More to the point, prospective new signings have no idea either, severely limiting their manoeuvrability in what is a very limited window of opportunity to strengthen a squad that needs it more than most. Let’s face it, after so many years fighting against relegation, Sunderland can be a tough sell to most players anyway. Add in the fact that they are unable to even tell players or their agents who the manager will be and you’d might as well just forget about the telephone, get the Sudoku book out, and head off for a tactical workday toilet break for pretty much as long as you want. Even if Sunderland can persuade their top targets to sign amid managerial uncertainty, who’s to say the any replacement coach will even want them, anyway? Then there are the current players and staff, who were at a training camp in Austria this week trying to prepare for the new season while their own manager was back in England interviewing for another job. I’m sure Allardyce’s team of coaches were well briefed, but all the work and time invested on the current plan isn’t likely to do much good if a new manager suddenly arrives with little use for it. The point is that, yes, the FA have a duty of care to the England team. It’s something they need to look after and get right. It’s perfectly fair. But they also have a duty of care to the clubs in their association and, more importantly, to the integrity of competition in the Premier League – so by showing such flagrant disrespect for a club’s well-being to the point of taking an active, deliberate role in destabilising it, they are pretty much failing their remit on every single count right now. Still, what should we expect from the boffins and berks behind the current England set-up? Michael Graham
If this is the case and you are right then fair enough, take them for as much as we can, I just thought we could only get back what we were paying Sam, this situation is unprecedented as far as I can recall in the 50 odd years I've been following football, why do we always seem to get the ****tiest end of the stick.
Brooking is the worst type of self serving reciprocal sycophant and the kind I detest ........ your comparison with Coe is deadly accurate.
Works like a transfer mate. We can value his at what we please and ask what we want. Fine line between upsetting your manager who you've allowed to speak to them but yeah it's up to us. But surely Sam can appreciate how damaging this is so can't complain if we up the price. He should have think himself lucky as we've allowed him to be interviewed. But this is taking the piss now and there's also a fine line between maintaning respect for your manager and being walked all over be the interested party
Didn't the FA do the same with West Brom over Hodgson ........ iirc though, that was the end of the season. They could've done all this pre-Euros, in secret, and had Hodgson's replacement lined up if he failed which I totally expected.
They should have waited till the window closed imo and not for an immediate appointment either. England should have had a caretaker in for this domestic season. It's only five games.
It's Captain Fishpaste. A freelance Journalist who owns the Roker Report. Decent chap with good views. His rep took a bit of a bashing during the Di Fanti era for overly bigging it up and spreading a lot of excitement about it. When it went tits up he took quite lot negativity a lot of which got personal. On twitter, facebook, rtg and on here though the personal stuff was mainly on twitter and rtg where he got it bad. Got bashed everywhere and the Roker Report suffered quite a bit for it. He's completely stand off with Roker Report now as he's getting loads of work in the Media. A lad named Gav runs RR now but Fishpaste still owns it.
Let's hope that someone from the FA reads his stuff - mind you they probably wouldn't take any notice even if they did.
Totally agree with this, poncy Southern Englishmen, gained things in their chosen sport I agree but as basic human beings could make a man flip and do some serious damage..
They were probably hoping to change their 'R's for 'W's and get spongy face Hodgson to change his mind..
Going back to the Michael Graham article which is well written, it's just a pity none of the national media and I include TV & Radio have mentioned the damage/potential damage this is doing to our club. We're the FA doing this to Spurs, Chelsea or Man Utd then you wouldn't hear the last of it, oh hang on none of them have an English manager.
It's their way and world, they wouldn't know transparency until the window cleaner was shoving a shammy down their throats..
