For many years MON has been regarded as a top 4 manager by many pundits and fans, tipped for Man U many times. He will either fail with us like many before him, hopefully not or he will work his magic and bring us success. That said I would say that even in my most optimistic mood we are a long way off becoming a top 4 side, players, location and cash being three reasons. Now my fear and yes it is a doom and gloom fear but a fear all the same, MON succeeds and this year gets us to mid table safety. He spends big in the summer and next season has us challenging for a top 8 place, lets go ultra optimistic and say challenging for a top 6 place. Then SAF decides its time to hang up his track suit and come calling. I know we will have had a good few years and will be able to attract a top manager and I know there is not a lot we can do, just like when a top 4 team come for a player. It would still piss me off mind, maybe I should just enjoy the ride and stop getting so maudlin.
Live for today Syd, don't worry about what will happen tomorrow or next season or the one after that. We still have a long way to go together! Live the dream.
Think he's on a 3 year contract as well mate, not enough time to keep us up, rebuild and start challenging. The one bright spot in all this though is O'Neills decent cup record which is what we have been missing since 2000 (I think semis against Millwall). That is where we could surprise a few people, not this year mind but possibly next.
There is no way on God's earth that MON will end up at MAN U...It will either be an ex player or a top foreign manager... My big hope is that MON and Sunderland will be a marriage made in heaven...
I seen to remember we had this very same conversation 2.5 years ago when Bruce signed. Mon is 60 next year and I imagine, no disrespect intended, that they will target a younger man. My Bev is David Moyes or someone like the 'special one' himself. Mon is a mackem at heart and is at a club he can now make his own. Just as his great mentor Brian Clough would have wanted to do, I think this is a perfect match between manager, club and fans. Bruce had the same opportunity to be fair but couldn't quite grasp the nettle in the end. Where he failed, I absolutely believe Mon will succeed and in a way that Hughes or some big foreign coach wouldn't have. Mon has this clubs history and passion coarsing through his very veins, in The same way it does Niall and up as fans. If you hear Quinn and ONeill talk, you can tell Ellis Short does now as well. We are back on track and long may that continue.
i think when SAF retires, the Special One is nailed on for the job. And i think he wants it - he liked the Prem. and he sure as hell doesn't mean Blackburn.
Does MON seem like the kind of bloke who would take a job where the best you could achieve is maintain the status quo? Not for me. He likes a challenge. We by some fantastic quirk of good fortune are a deeply personal challenge for him. A match made in heaven. "I want to win Football matches so I can stay longer" He won't leave till he either achieves his dream or admits defeat. He is after all, a Mackem.
I met a bloke on holiday a couple of years back who was an active member of the official man utd supporters club, goes to all the agms with club officials etc.. He told me that as far as the supporters club are concerned they truly believe that the special one is nailed on to succeed SAF.. When he was at Inter and Fergie was umm-ing and ah-ing about when to retire Jose only every took one year contract extensions.. Fergie has indicated he's staying for a few more years and Jose took a three year contract at Madrid.. It could all be coincidence, but the bloke I was chatting too was 100% sure, it's jose's job to turn down..
I have no fear of MON leaving to join another club. At 59 if he is successful here he will want to enjoy it and do the one thing very few do in football, retire while still at the top.
If MON was successful here, why would he leave? (Lets not forget as a youngun he opted to support SAFC rather than the more glamorous ManU.) If he wasn't successful here why would Utd want him? As has been said, it was talked about if Bruce was successful here, he would be off to Utd. As to Bruce, this was just a very well paid job. No personal ties to SAFC.
Too right. Darren Bent is a self centred Darren Bent supporter and **** anyone else. His personal and working life can totally collapse around his greedy bulging wallet for all I care. He has made his bed at those giants at Villa and he can flaming well lie in it from now on. NoN does have history and very much shares a real common passion with us all, not the lip service Judas paid us. Yes its just a job at the end of the day but one with that bit of something special attached. He is here to fulfill a lifetime dream for both himself and his old mentor Brian Clough.
So did Henderson, and more so because he was born and bred here. Didn't make a sh*t of difference when the wallet was produced.
As said MON is 60 next year. It will more than likely be his last job. Given the right backing he will be here for the 3 years to take him up to 62 and beyond. Ellis get the frigging cheque book out. This is your choice, your decision, back the man.
