Poll: Sack Race 2014/15

Who's getting it?


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It's a really jerky way to walk away. Kind of stinks like waiting long enough to try and force the owners into backing him as it's too late to replace a manager. He didn't know how much money he was going to get any time during summer till today? If you thought you could negotiate more money you might wait till about now then make an ultimatum, I'm going to walk unless I get 20mil to spend as I want right now. Thinking that with 2 days to go the owner would give in. I can see that being the situation.

Some managers like to spend silly and get all uppity when told how much money they can spend.

Being upset that Caulker (edit, remembered that wrong) chose a different team, not surprising, Pulis plays dire football. Michu choosing Napoli over Palace... seriously, blame the board for that? What kind of moron is Pulis. What player in their right mind would choose a bottom half Palace over living in Italy and playing in the champs league.... is he retarded?
 
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Seems like a lot of fans(from mail in/call in things) are saying, Pulis wanted to overspend on average players again(like at Stoke) and were glad the club told him where to stick his demands and pretty glad he left regardless of staying up last year.

Staying up doesn't create an automatic right to spend more than you can financially afford, particularly for a manager with a crap eye for talent.
 
After the performance Palace put in against Arsenal yesterday I'm surprised that he felt so strongly about getting new players that he would walk out, why is it managers today seem to think they have the divine right to buy lots of players of their own choosing and get rid of those they don't like? management is about getting the best out of what you already have and signing players only when the funds become available... it's no wonder so many clubs get into financial difficulty with the unnecessary turnover of players due to managerial changes.
 
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You may have a point but equally the relationship between the manager and the board is a two-way street and if a manager is promised XYZ but only ends up with WX then he may feel the relationship is untenable.
 
I think Van Gaal will have a difficult few weeks ahead of him, teams are less afraid of Man Utd now and a few poor results will see the pressure pile onto him, he really needs to get a win at Sunderland to steady the ship (from last season).
 
Big sam will surely be the first to go! Not popular with the fans/chairman and he can't win playing the style they want.
 
Got to go with Poch at Spurs. Can't see Levy keeping him for too long. I'll give him until November and then I can see Levy firing him. Probably making him their 3rd longest serving manager or something...
 
Got to go with Poch at Spurs. Can't see Levy keeping him for too long. I'll give him until November and then I can see Levy firing him. Probably making him their 3rd longest serving manager or something...

This is ridiculous, AVB got over a year at Spurs and got fired after in his second season inspiring the most turgid football Spurs had played in over a decade, being unable to score and pretty much being a douche in terms of refusing to use some of the players the club bought. Regardless of if he was involved in buying some of those players or not (with no proof which way it happened), turning your nose up at a good player to make a point is retarded, if you were playing fantastic winning football that would be one thing, but woeful boring football where he lost to anyone top half... nope.

Poch did great at Southampton, got them playing good football. He improved them no end in terms of fitness/system/pressing, playing the modern game. He is everything AVB isn't, he doesn't alienate half the team from day one, play absurd tactics because they worked 3 years previously in a different league and got the team playing great together. No reason to think he can't do similar at Spurs. As long as Spurs aren't awful and aren't playing dire football there is no reason to think Spurs would fire him. Outside of losing 10 games before xmas he won't get fired this season.

AVB was fired for being crap and for making them worse, his record against the top half was shocking and he was taking the team backwards. Sherwood's record was far superior and probably 80+% of people on here thought he should be fired also(I have no idea why).


As for the rest, interesting pieces this weekend on Hull. Before Bruce got fired from Sunderland they had a woeful end to the previous season and a terrible start to the new one before he got canned. Hull had a similarly woeful end to last season, the team were getting significantly worse over time and if that continues he could be facing the same thing again.

West Ham, Carlton Cole on for 84 minutes with both Zarate and Valencia on the bench, the latter got about 10 minutes with extra time, the former didn't even get on the pitch..........

The really stupid thing is, while Carlton Cole is a big and strong player, his one very good season and one decent season was under Zola, he played as a front partnership and the team were playing fast fluid attacking football. He actually looks hopeless at the front of Fat Sam's hoofball team which makes him being played even more odd. Fat Sam appears to think because he looks the part(being a big strong player) he will play the target man well.

My dad's a West Ham fan so i kinda like them or hope they do well, Fat Sam makes them awful to watch and hope he gets fired soon.
 
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I went for Pardew.

Big Sam is the obvious choice, but I have a feeling Pardew has one more pint of crazy in him just itching to break out. When and how it'll surface I have no idea.
 
I think Van Gaal will have a difficult few weeks ahead of him, teams are less afraid of Man Utd now and a few poor results will see the pressure pile onto him, he really needs to get a win at Sunderland to steady the ship (from last season).

Personally think Woodward will go (or be demoted) before LvG.

At the end of the day LvG has vast (winning) experience at this level where as Woodward looks /sounds like a headless chicken when trying to sign top level players (although he is probably amongst the best at getting global "brand partners")
 
Personally think Woodward will go (or be demoted) before LvG.

At the end of the day LvG has vast (winning) experience at this level where as Woodward looks /sounds like a headless chicken when trying to sign top level players (although he is probably amongst the best at getting global "brand partners")

LvG was sacked in his second spell at Barcelona with them in 12th place in the league and only 3 points above the relegation spots. That spell was mired with problems. He fell out with many players and made some really bad buys.

He doesn't have a flawless record and I really think he is going to do poorly at Manchester United.
 
Wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Vincent Tan it seems. How to make sure you never get another job in the Premier League.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/malkay-mackays-crystal-palace-offer-4081081

Seems odd that if it was just malicious with no truth to it that it wouldn't effect anything.

The deals being done by those two at Cardiff was, odd, the ridiculously expensive unknown striker who was dog ****, by all accounts being given a limit for transfers and Moody allowing Mackay to go over it. Suing for 7.5million but giving up on it so easily and apologising. Lots of people would apologise if they got a big cash pay off so it's not proof of anything but those cases often take a very long time and didn't. When you couple odd transfers and Tan's reaction, the court case going away and Palace being so easily scared off, makes me think there is something behind it.

The dodgy Palace getting tactical information from Cardiff was also pretty dodgy.

What I don't get is why Palace would choose Mackay, a guy who had the team performing woefully in the premier league before he was fired, who didn't buy well in the prem league and really showed nothing in the 18 games he got before being fired. Cardiff started off with a bit of belief but they were basically getting worse every game till he was fired.

Sherwood improved Spurs football significantly after he took over, made some calls, benched under performing players like Sandro and gave a couple of youngsters a significant chance while scoring points well.

If you were looking at just those two one had the team on a downward trend, the other improved his team significantly.
 
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