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The Managerial Merry-go-round

ikky

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Wouldn’t be surprised if they go for Allardyce to save them from possible relegation.
 

ikky

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Looks like they’re looking at former RB Leipzig manager Ralph Hasenhuttl. Better than the old boys network.
 

allatsea

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Well done Hughes. Mugged off yet another Chairman and club and leaves with further millions to fill his ever growing bank account. How can so many normally very astute businessmen lose their collective marbles when then become Chairmen of football clubs ?
 

rossdapep

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Nobody's still at the club from when they had a philosophy, which is an even bigger problem. The Liebherr daughter who took over after her father passed has sold 80% to a Chinese businessman and pretty much all the middle men have left too. They need to rethink the structure of the whole club, not just the manager.
Ahhh, didn't know that. Makes sense why it's all gone belly up.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Mark Hughes must be the most overrated manager of all time. I've seen absolutely nothing from him to suggest he deserves jobs in the PL. How he got the Man City job years ago still staggers me.

More than Shhhteve "how you shhay" McLaren?

There are more than a few men out there that have been pretending to be football managers for years and years and keep stealing a living doing it.

Tell you what thought, I'm sure Sol is ready to ditch Macclesfield already.
 

LSUY

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Mark Hughes must be the most overrated manager of all time. I've seen absolutely nothing from him to suggest he deserves jobs in the PL. How he got the Man City job years ago still staggers me.

I guess some chairmen think if someone was a great player then they're going to be a great manager as well. Look at Lampard and Gerrard. There's no way either of them would have got Derby and Rangers as their first jobs if they had been run of the mill footballers.
 

'O Zio

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Well done Hughes. Mugged off yet another Chairman and club and leaves with further millions to fill his ever growing bank account. How can so many normally very astute businessmen lose their collective marbles when then become Chairmen of football clubs ?

I think it's a difficult one for the chairmen because in some ways they're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Rightly or wrongly, when clubs are in trouble if they appoint a manager who's got lots of experience e.g. Big Sam, Moyes, Hughes, Woy etc. then if it works out it's seen as a "safe pair of hands" doing what they do best, and if it doesn't work out then it's seen as them having not had a chance e.g. because the club left it too late to bring them in or the problems are with the squad he has to work with etc. but it's not usually seen as a massive mistake by the chairman to hire Big Sam. However, if the club hire some flavour of the month foreign manager (e.g. Garde, Pellegrino etc.) and it doesn't work out, then the chairmen get absolutely crucified for bringing in a manager with no experience of a relegation battle/the league etc.
 

dontcallme

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Mark Hughes must be the most overrated manager of all time. I've seen absolutely nothing from him to suggest he deserves jobs in the PL. How he got the Man City job years ago still staggers me.

From memory he did a good job at Blackburn. I remember a number of his players spoke very highly or his training methods and dedication to fitness.

They lost players and he replaced them well. But he, understandably, started to moan about how they couldn't keep replacing high quality players.

So if memory serves me correctly his first two jobs, Wales and Blackburn,were a relative success.

But since then he took jobs at clubs with money and he didn't know how to spend it. Good mate of mine is a Saints fan and I said to him at the time of his hiring that Hughes was done. I don't think Hughes has any desire to manage a small club that will lose any high quality player they buy or produce and he doesn't have the skilset to manage a topend club.
 

Marty

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Mar 10, 2005
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From memory he did a good job at Blackburn. I remember a number of his players spoke very highly or his training methods and dedication to fitness.

They lost players and he replaced them well. But he, understandably, started to moan about how they couldn't keep replacing high quality players.

So if memory serves me correctly his first two jobs, Wales and Blackburn,were a relative success.

But since then he took jobs at clubs with money and he didn't know how to spend it. Good mate of mine is a Saints fan and I said to him at the time of his hiring that Hughes was done. I don't think Hughes has any desire to manage a small club that will lose any high quality player they buy or produce and he doesn't have the skilset to manage a topend club.
Absolutely this, his Blackburn side was good to watch with Bentley, Gamst Pedersen, Santa Cruz, Tugay and more. And he almost got Wales to a tournament at a time where they had a really poor side.

He just never moved on from 2008. I don't remember him being such a grumpy sod before he left Man City either, it was as if he changed completely as a person and man manager after they sacked him.
 

tototoner

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Mar 21, 2004
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Complete and total mayhem in the Alan Pardew household.

The phone rings in anticipation of being offered an interview about the Southampton managers job. Then brutal reality as it turns out it was an ambulance chaser asking if he had been in an accident.
 

spursfan77

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Aug 13, 2005
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Complete and total mayhem in the Alan Pardew household.

The phone rings in anticipation of being offered an interview about the Southampton managers job. Then brutal reality as it turns out it was an ambulance chaser asking if he had been in an accident.

If there’s one club he wouldn’t be welcome back at above all others it’s southampton. Have a google as to why he was alleged to have left last time!
 

tototoner

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Mar 21, 2004
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If you mean Jose Fonte I dont believe that, after Pardew was sacked Fonte went public on how much Pardew helped him at Southampton and Pardew tried to sign him again when at Palace.
 

Marty

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Mar 10, 2005
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There rumours that Puel could be about to get the push from Leicester.
If I'd pissed away my best chance of a trophy this season by playing a weakened team because I'm "prioritising survival" while sitting 8th in the league I'd expect to be sacked for unprofessionality and terrible judgement.
 

Dougal

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If I'd pissed away my best chance of a trophy this season by playing a weakened team because I'm "prioritising survival" while sitting 8th in the league I'd expect to be sacked for unprofessionality and terrible judgement.
Sounds exciting. What is it you do for a living?
 
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