He is totally nuts, of that I have no doubt. however, he is a great character and I hope he comes back into football and does well..
He's not fit to manage hoss **** shovelling IMO. No one disagrees modern football players are worthless overpaid slimy ****wits but constantly popping up on TV to chastise and berate publically a set of players with thius sentiment he was then supposed to put together a team was idiotic suicide. I don't give a **** if he ever manages again in the UK and certainly have no regrets at all he was peddled from us. Possibly the worst ever manager in our entire history.
I've often asked people to state, out of all the multitudinous insanity, what's the maddest thing that stands out in their opinion.
Our appointment of him in the first place perhaps? Gus was on out radar but we baulked at the £2m compensation required. That could have been the costliest mistake in our history tbh. Luckily sense prevailled and Poyets arrival was delayed only briefly.
He's moved into The Flat with Steve Bruce and Alan Pardew! Does anybody else listen to the Wise Men Say podcast? If not, you won't have a clue what I'm on about
MON had left us with a squad of unfit players who weren't acting professionally and making their own rules. If asking the players to improve their diet is insanity I'd like to know how the likes of Arsenal get away with it. Perhaps this fella might know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9aUnQ5-UM
Him approaching the fans the way he did makes me think some of it may be exaggerated but not completely untrue mate.
I completely agree with the dietary changes. The thing that pisses me off is that it's been standard practice at a lot of clubs for quite a few years. Tottenham brought it in under Ramos, admittedly he didn't finish all that cleverly there, but as it was PDC it was seen as madness not method.
For me it was his crazy press conferences that stood out...He would just say exactly what he thought with no thought of diplomacy or the consequences..
That's my point though mate. I'd bet Ferguson, Mourino, Wenger, Rodgers, etc have all said things that sounded twice as crazy but, because we're little Sunderland, he was portrayed as a nutcase. Mourinho spent most of last season criticising his players, complaining that they didn't have a striker & claiming they had zero chance of the title while 3 points adrift.
PDC would slag off individuals though, which I have never really saw from one of the top managers since Brian Clough, who was also crazy by the way...
He said Hazard wasn't a team player and that he wasn't happy with him. I reckon he also had a go at Oscar and said he was only interested in playing for his national team.
Mourinho can get away with that sort of behaviour though. He's won a **** load of trophies so players just have to take it on the chin and trust his methods. PDC had got Swindon promoted. Let's face it, hardly a massively boastful record.
PDC inherited a crock of sh*t from MON who must be one of the biggest disappointments I have ever seen at Sunderland. He did a great job to keep us up even with the press hammering him. OK the players mutinied but as many say what he said was true. Hope he gets a start and proves a few people wrong. St James that year deserves respect.
My point is that Di Canio was trying to instil the same kind of basics as you'll find at the top clubs. He was asking for the players to be fit, to train & eat properly and to commit themselves to the club. We'll never become a club, that can take it on the chin, unless the players can apply themselves without sulking. It's a chicken & egg thing isn't it?
PDC never had a chance, he had stood on the wrong toes,at least it got rid of Milliband, probably a worse signing than Jozy and Danny combined.
Bit of a catch 22. As I said earlier, I agree with what he tried to implement, just think he needed to try to implement it far better than he did.
