Poll: Sack Race 17/18 Season

First for the chop?

  • Bilic

    Votes: 18 27.3%

  • Wenger

    Votes: 6 9.1%

  • Conte

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • de Boer

    Votes: 29 43.9%

  • Benitez

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Shakespeare

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Hughes

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Howe

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Clement

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Mourinho

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Total voters
    66
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mmj_uk said:
He said he wasn't interested in the job a few weeks ago, I guess Everton are desperate about staying up as he's never got a Premier League team relegated.
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No **** Sherlock, which team wouldn’t be desperate to stay up. 6m is nothing to stay up. He stated he was interested and then withdrew when it looked like the club where going elsewhere. He stated he wasn’t interested when it looked like he wasn’t getting the job.

6m is small change compared to what footballers get paid, that was always fergies moan that his stars got far more than him.
 
Clement at least gets a pay off, he should have walked when they sold their two best players and expected to compete in this league.
 
BaZ87 said:
What's the odds on Pulis to Swansea?
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None by the looks of it, seems like they are interested in De Boer. Who when managed Palace didn’t win a single game iirc.

Looking forward to Swansea being dumped out of the EPL.
 
Well Hughes has indeed been sacked. Keep chat in here until after MOTD and then I'll move the posts into the sack race thread.
 
Quite right. He'd lost the players, the fans and finally, the board. A lot of sackings are too hasty, but not this one.

Who's next at Stoke from the merry go round then? I'm gonna have a stab at Ronald Koeman.

I haven't got a lot of time for Stoke fans though as when I was up there to watch Arsenal, they were seriously abusive, much more than I would consider acceptable. I'm sure one even kicked the back of my car as I moved off.
 
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Well not surprised Hughes has gone, after the way he stormed off during one of his pressers earlier this month.

Hopefully Stoke go down this year, another team I won’t miss lol.
 
Yas786 said:
Well not surprised Hughes has gone, after the way he stormed off during one of his pressers earlier this month.

Hopefully Stoke go down this year, another team I won’t miss lol.
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I think he had a bad attitude about the whole thing. Just seemed annoyed with everyone including the fans. Felt like he was trying to deflect the blame onto others at times, instead of taking responsibility and acting civil towards people rightly questioning his recent performance.
 
I think at this stage an extension is best for all involved, it's no good working under the assumption things will definitely implode. His time at Man Utd so far hasn't been the 'norm' so perhaps he's started averagely and will end up getting better, rather than the other way around. I know the club want to keep him long term, whether that's feasible remains to be seen.

Given how things haven't exactly gone as planned so far this season though, it's a big risk (as with most things).
 
Robbo said:
I think at this stage an extension is best for all involved, it's no good working under the assumption things will definitely implode. His time at Man Utd so far hasn't been the 'norm' so perhaps he's started averagely and will end up getting better, rather than the other way around. I know the club want to keep him long term, whether that's feasible remains to be seen.

Given how things haven't exactly gone as planned so far this season though, it's a big risk (as with most things).
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I honestly don't believe that. We know Utd looked at nearly every other option before going to Mourinho and Mourinho's still the same manager they didn't want to appoint. He'll always be putting more pressure on the club to keep giving him more and more money to spend, his pet dog will be out peddling his propaganda and as with this Conte business, he's going to behave like a ****. Now, just like when they appointed him, they're willing to tolerate it because they want to establish themselves at the top table, not risking finishing 5th and missing out on the CL, and he's seen as the safest bet. Sooner or later they'll lose patience with him, probably when they're satisfied that they're place in the CL is safe or another candidate becomes available that can meet their requirements without all the baggage.

I know I made a joke about it in the transfer thread and Moses mentions it above but I doubt the pay off situation will be much of a factor. I'm sure there will be various clauses that protect Utd in the event that they sack him - LVG's admitted that he only got paid as long as he was out of work and I can't imagine Mendes will take long to find Mourinho another club.
 
They did look at other options first but that was due to pressure from select people within the club, Woodward and the Glazers are business first and Mourinho has the most impressive track record on paper. That is what I understood anyway, there's no way of knowing for sure.

I don't get the impression they are waiting for someone better to come along, because without going for an up and coming manager which is a gamble, who is there?

I know these payoffs aren't a great deal of money to a club of our financial standing, but the £8m to get rid of Moyes after 9 months was pretty awful. :p
 
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