Slutsky is our problem?

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I know, but he's gone along with all that selling, and seemed to think the loans would show up big. I just don't know what he's about to get out of these players. In particular he must be able to get a defence organised, whether they are young or not. I doubt they'll give him much spending in January either. Anyway the owners decide and I think he'll keep here unless he walks, but I don't see any improvement likely. I'm not even sure how much the players are backing him really.

You are clearly very silly.
 
Issue seems to be he is unable to motivate the players at his disposal. Even he admits he can't figure out why the players capitulate & ship poor goals. Is this due to his command of English, his personality (ie too jovial) or the players don't respect him & his methods ? He is finding motivating a team of Championship players far harder than motivating CKSA players. Overall the squad is fairly strong & as nice a bloke as he is Slutsky is failing to motivate them & organise them (our defense is shocking as has been for weeks now but we see no improvement). Get Ian Ashbee in as his assistant ? He is a City legend that commands respect & would be able to fire up the players & get them to show some fight (& the one's who fail to respond can be dropped & sent on their way in Jan)

Looking at wiki, in his time at CSKA, there was very little squad movement in his time there and he only found success from his third season onwards.
 
Question for you Sergey, why hasn't Slutski brought in a trusted assistant? I assume he had assistants at Volgograd, Elista, FC Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA & the Russian national team? Who does he bounce ideas off?
original I think he tried to get someone in during the summer, but part of the reason was given to 'visa issues'. From what I hear that might be something to do with a certain owners ability to or wanting to, pay. And I don't mean by Barclaycard Visa.

ALLAMS OUT!!!
 
Decent points but the players we sold in the summer were the same players who got this club relegated and conceded 80 goals in doing so. Personally I thought it was good business although I would have liked to have kept Tom Huddlestone
We also kept Dawson, Meyler and McGregor from last season's squad. So the backbone of the team was still in place although the injury to Hermandez was a massive blow.
We have bought some talented players but it does seem as though Slutsky doesn't know how or where to play them. He also looks like a nervous wreck on the touchline and appears to offer no instructions or anything.
I think he will be given more time but a huge improvement is required quickly.

Christ.

backbone still in place - ey, you what?

bought some talented players - which one?
 
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Someone on humberside said the rumour sweeping the city is his is slutsky’s last game regardless of the result.

Have to admit it hasn’t swept my way
 
Someone on humberside said the rumour sweeping the city is his is slutsky’s last game regardless of the result.

Have to admit it hasn’t swept my way
Nigel Adkins name came up a few days ago didn't think anymore about it till today when a couple of city old heads who keep in contact with ex city players brought it up again . Can anyone see it happening
 
Nigel Adkins name came up a few days ago didn't think anymore about it till today when a couple of city old heads who keep in contact with ex city players brought it up again . Can anyone see it happening

Adkins out of work? Check.

So, maybe. Just depends on Slutsky's contract. If he's got a 3-year contract then it's not happening. Someone mentioned something about him not relocating his family over here until he's been in the job 6 months. Maybe there's a mutual termination clause at 6 months (9 December). If that's the case then, maybe.
 
Adkins out of work? Check.

So, maybe. Just depends on Slutsky's contract. If he's got a 3-year contract then it's not happening. Someone mentioned something about him not relocating his family over here until he's been in the job 6 months. Maybe there's a mutual termination clause at 6 months (9 December). If that's the case then, maybe.

Yes, I think in an interview he said that his family would come over if he was still in the job by Christmas.
 
original I think he tried to get someone in during the summer, but part of the reason was given to 'visa issues'. From what I hear that might be something to do with a certain owners ability to or wanting to, pay. And I don't mean by Barclaycard Visa.

ALLAMS OUT!!!
If he wants an assistant I would try Debbie McGee, she’s got a few tricks up her sleeve !
 
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Slutsky isn’t the best man for the job but it seems, at the time, he was the only man willing for the job under the circumstances.

I believe there were a number of names allegedly interested, Slutsky got the job because Ehab thought he`d utilise his friendship with Abramovic, and get a team on the cheap. He is under performing on a massive scale, the squad we have aint no world beaters, but an organiser would get a better tune out of them, give them belief, and get us further up the table then we are currently. I like Sluts as a bloke, but as a manager he couldn`t organise a piss up in a brewery