The Manager Thread...

Quoting Brian Clough , I like it

 

One to two CBs is a bit optimistic, we probably need 3.

 

Me too, I'm liking the cut of his jib and what I'm hearing. Comes across very personable and confident, bearing in mind a new country, city he knows little about, no family with him, no posse/backroom gang with him. Seems relaxed and confident in his own abilities to work with a team unknown to him, obviously his Chelsea connections must help and undoubtedly the draw of City of Culture! Cautiously optimistic.

 

I see Grayson is now favourite for the Sunderland job. It seems they are starting to scrap the bottom of the barrel now everyone else seems to have got their managers in place.

 

What does Nigel have to do to get a job? He's light years ahead of Grayson. Guess mud sticks and owners don't like to be challenged.

 

It does seem strange, though I thought he would have ended up at Boro. Seems Nigel is just to prickly for many.

 

Act like a **** and you get shafted

 

Prickly...love it
I prefer to use the word Prick when talking about the NIgemeister

 

For me he has 2 completely natural fits - Boro and Wendies. The fact that one of these had a vacancy when he was out of work and didn't go for him unequivocally means this is reduced to one now. Carlos could easily be gone by Christmas as his dream becomes a nightmare so it's a question of does he sit tight and wait?

 

I think the words out that he's not quite right upstairs if you get my drift?

 

He's the best 'man' of any of our managers that I've known. Simple as.

 

That sounds familiar, won't end well.

 

Indeed, that's them out of the picture then.

 

http://talksport.com/football/sunde...-preston-says-bookies-favourite-simon-grayson

Grayson has ruled himsen out

 

http://talksport.com/football/sunde...it-process-will-delay-appointment-new-manager

kinda thought yanks owned them?

 

Yes, it's odd how people want to cling to the superficial stuff when they make their assessment of how good or bad a manager was for us.
'Prickly' Nigel was never interested in being Burnsy's pal like SB was.
Ditto Silva - never remotely into being 'mates' with Burnsy. You're a journalist, I'm the coach. You've got you job, I've got mine.
Now people are getting a semi on cos Len's learnt good English in 5 months or he's made some encouraging statements about what he intends to do or how he likes to play.
E allora?
Actions not words.
Let's see how it's going mid November when we've had a few ****ty midweek aways at Ipswich, Wolves etc and see how Leonid is doing.
If Lenny can make us very hard to beat away like Big Nige did, then he's The Man.
Grinding out narrow 1-0 wins, watertight defence and deadly on the counter, is the Road back to the PL.
The side that Nigel, Walsh and Shakespeare moulded was expert in that, but call him sockface if you prefer to ignore the core details of his time here.

 

i think you're fkin nigel pearson