Sparky's Replacement

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Who should replace Sparky

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Avoid relegation this season. Don't care which manager achieves it, or how much they have to rely on other clubs being worse than us. Then appoint Rafa in the summer when he inevitably leaves Newcastle at the end of his contract.
 
Quote from the thread when we took Hughes on:

Onionman said:
I'm sure I'm alone but I now see us going down. I'm much more pessimistic with Hughes here.

The book Soccernomics made the point several years ago. I'm paraphrasing from memory but this is the gist:

English football teams decide (after a particularly bad result) to sack their manager. Then they look around for a middle-aged white male English manager who's been sacked by their club for incompetence and pay him a vast sum to do the job at which he was so bad that his last club fired him.

I thought more of our club than this and I'm terribly pessimistic about the rest of the season, a very unusual situation for me.

I sincerely hope I'm proven wrong.

Vin
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I was wrong about the relegation but here we go again.

Vin
 
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As great as staying up was last season, my concern was Hughes getting the job full time out of a sense of duty, but even with that pessimistic attitude, I still didn’t think things would be so desperate so quickly.
I find myself consistently mystified with his team selection.
Only one of his signings is a regular. He ****ed up pre-season by working on a formation which was abandoned after 45 minutes.

I will be the king of wishful thinking, but the board have to act quickly and appoint someone for the long term before it gets past January.
Either a successful manager from a championship club or abroad, but definitely a manager who is on the up
 
If Hughes is given the push, I wonder about Kelvin Davis? Would he have the backing of the players? If Hughes did have the players support, then SFC would not have caved in so spectacularly at the City of Manchester Stadium.
 
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Southampton manager Mark Hughes could be sacked if Saints fail to beat Watford on Saturday, with Sam Allardyce set to replace him. (Mirror)

<laugh>
This will be hilarious!

Even you lads must appreciate that the Wum Gates of Hell will be opened to their fullest, yeah?
 
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