Clement Sacked?

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Did TF go after him ...and didn't he turn us down....which is why we went with our dream manager CR....or am I making that up
 
Only in football could you appoint someone with no experience, allow him to spend tens of millions of pounds on assets likely to depreciate (£6m for Johnson FFS) and then sack him eight months later when he's performing to what anyone on the outside would consider a satisfactory level to be replaced, at least temporarily, with someone else with no experience.
 
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Watford_R said:
Only in football could you appoint someone with no experience, allow him to spend tens of millions of pounds on assets likely to depreciate (£6m for Johnson FFS) and then sack him eight months later when he's performing to what anyone on the outside would consider a satisfactory level to be replaced, at least temporarily, with someone else with no experience.
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There must've been a serious issue for that to happen. Who's Darren Wassall? Surely keeping Clement on would've been preferable.
 
QPR999 said:
There must've been a serious issue for that to happen. Who's Darren Wassall? Surely keeping Clement on would've been preferable.
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A mediocre footballer and previous caretaker after Clough left apparently. I'm normally a bit like Rainman when it comes to players we've played against but never heard of him.

That's not to say he's not a good coach and club man, but they now have an expensive gamble on someone like Pearson when Clement looked likely to get playoffs. Bizarre.
 
Watford_R said:
A mediocre footballer and previous caretaker after Clough left apparently. I'm normally a bit like Rainman when it comes to players we've played against but never heard of him.

That's not to say he's not a good coach and club man, but they now have an expensive gamble on someone like Pearson when Clement looked likely to get playoffs. Bizarre.
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I agree completely. Something serious has happened there.
 
Kilburn said:
Perhaps he could help us out on the training ground for the rest of the season (akin to Harry bringing in McLaren)?
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Hmmmm let me think about that. Nope. We weren't big enough or wealthy enough for him to buy us success, the way he was taught. He was found out. He would have been at Loftus Road as well.
 
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YorkshireHoopster said:
Hmmmm let me think about that. Nope. We weren't big enough or wealthy enough for him to buy us success, the way he was taught. He was found out. He would have been at Loftus Road as well.
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Can you really say he's been found out? A hugely successful assistant who had his first club as manager top of the league recently and only five points off the top at the time of his sacking. I'd love our managers to have been found out that much.
 
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Watford_R said:
Only in football could you appoint someone with no experience, allow him to spend tens of millions of pounds on assets likely to depreciate (£6m for Johnson FFS) and then sack him eight months later when he's performing to what anyone on the outside would consider a satisfactory level to be replaced, at least temporarily, with someone else with no experience.
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Actually there's quite a good analogy with financial traders. Most of the 'rogue traders' (or at least the ones who have been caught) were young men playing with huge amounts of money, out of their depth and left to get on with it by their seniors, who denied all knowledge and culpability when things went tits up.
 
Watford_R said:
Can you really say he's been found out? A hugely successful assistant who had his first club as manager top of the league recently and only five points off the top at the time of his sacking. I'd love our managers to have been found out that much.
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When was the last time a number two at a club like Real was not hugely successful? It might have something to do with the No. 1, the players, the billions at the owners disposal and just possibly he might have made a small contribution. Why make the assumption he is going to be a success when basically he has not had to graft and learn his trade?
 
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To sack him when they are 5th, and just after the transfer window shuts seems like madness. Maybe there's more to it than is being said.

It fact it sounds like something Rangers would do.
 
sb_73 said:
Something very odd going on.

http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Der...sacking-Head/story-28694411-detail/story.html
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It get's even more bizarre. Derby are perfectly poised to grab an automatic promotion place. They are 5 points off the top two and are looking good for the play-offs. They are potentially throwing this opportunity away by appointing an unknown. Even if they bring Moyes in there's no guarantee of them bettering the position Clement has already achieved. Maybe your point of Clement rejoining Ancelotti at Bayern has some truth, but even then you would think Mel Morris would say ok that's fine. You can do that. But in the meantime do your best to get us up and we'll take it from there and part company with the best of wishes for the future.
 
YorkshireHoopster said:
When was the last time a number two at a club like Real was not hugely successful? It might have something to do with the No. 1, the players, the billions at the owners disposal and just possibly he might have made a small contribution. Why make the assumption he is going to be a success when basically he has not had to graft and learn his trade?
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Lots of Madrid managers and assistants have been flops. You don't get the jobs he's had at Chelsea, PSG and Madrid under Ancelotti, one of the best managers of his generation, if you've not got something. He's worked his way up through relatively lowly youth team jobs to get where he has so I don't know how much more learning of his trade you want him to do. He had Derby in a great position too.
 
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I believe there was criticism of his style of football. Labelled 'boring' by many Derby supporters.

Instructed the players to never give the ball away needlessly, which resulted in many sideways and backwards passing.

Still, a very strange decision to sack someone whilst in the Play Off positions. Middlesborough kept faith with Aitor Karanka after last seasons Play Off Final defeat and look to be reaping the benefit of that patience.
 
Surely this has to do with Derby ****ting themselves after spuking over 30 mill in transfer fees and a huge hike in players salaries? Despite what they are saying it must be a bit of a Prem or nothing this season, I struggle to believe that they don't have big FFP sanctions coming their way. We have been massively reducing costs and still have the Prem payments coming our way, something Derby don't. Screams of desperation after overspending, something we know oh too well about, they aren't alone I think a few chairman are feeling the pressure with the amount being spent in the Championship this year
 
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