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RE: General media gossip - Blue Baggie - 30-12-2023
Potter and Ashworth still being linked to Man Utd
New owner Ratcliffe wants them apparently.
RE: General media gossip - Blue Baggie - 02-01-2024
Rooney has left the building.
RE: General media gossip - BaggieSteve - 02-01-2024
(02-01-2024, 13:20)Blue Baggie Wrote: Rooney has left the building.
All of a sudden, our appointments of Irvine, Pardew and Bruce don’t seem quite so bad
RE: General media gossip - Blue Baggie - 02-01-2024
Obviously they want another name.
Lamps - Gerrard - Terry.- Parker - Neil
I'd be after Cooper if he's interested.
RE: General media gossip - Stairs - 02-01-2024
Other than during his playing days, and restricted to his antics on the pitch, the man is a disaster.
Clearly he was never going to make punditry his career as he can hardly put a sentence together (or be understood) and so god know why people thought clever feet meant cleaver football brain.
The sad thing is that he will have been well paid during his time there, he will be paid handsomely to leave and some fool will agree a contract with him to rinse and repeat the disaster somewhere else.
It's the only industry on the planet where incompetence is not a handicap!
RE: General media gossip - talkSAFT - 02-01-2024
Bang goes that move he made to buy Vardy!
RE: General media gossip - drewks - 02-01-2024
(02-01-2024, 16:12)Stairs Wrote: Other than during his playing days, and restricted to his antics on the pitch, the man is a disaster.
Clearly he was never going to make punditry his career as he can hardly put a sentence together (or be understood) and so god know why people thought clever feet meant cleaver football brain.
The sad thing is that he will have been well paid during his time there, he will be paid handsomely to leave and some fool will agree a contract with him to rinse and repeat the disaster somewhere else.
It's the only industry on the planet where incompetence is not a handicap!
Why do club owners think that a great player will automatically be a great manager?
Time and time again it's been exactly the opposite - the most glaring example, I think, is the late, great Sir Bobby Charlton whose playing career surpassed most others but counted for nothing in his pretty unsuccessful manager career.
It MAY put a few more through the turnstiles in the early days; it MAY attract a few players who wouldn't otherwise have signed, but ultimately it's about the complex ability to MANAGE, not play.
Indeed, I think I'm right saying that most of the very successful managers through the years have had very modest playing careers...?
RE: General media gossip - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 02-01-2024
(02-01-2024, 18:37)drewks Wrote:(02-01-2024, 16:12)Stairs Wrote: Other than during his playing days, and restricted to his antics on the pitch, the man is a disaster.
Clearly he was never going to make punditry his career as he can hardly put a sentence together (or be understood) and so god know why people thought clever feet meant cleaver football brain.
The sad thing is that he will have been well paid during his time there, he will be paid handsomely to leave and some fool will agree a contract with him to rinse and repeat the disaster somewhere else.
It's the only industry on the planet where incompetence is not a handicap!
Why do club owners think that a great player will automatically be a great manager?
Time and time again it's been exactly the opposite - the most glaring example, I think, is the late, great Sir Bobby Charlton whose playing career surpassed most others but counted for nothing in his pretty unsuccessful manager career.
It MAY put a few more through the turnstiles in the early days; it MAY attract a few players who wouldn't otherwise have signed, but ultimately it's about the complex ability to MANAGE, not play.
Indeed, I think I'm right saying that most of the very successful managers through the years have had very modest playing careers...?
Yeah, it's not even difficult to understand why great players seldom make good managers. It stands to reason that a footballer who's had a natural gift from the earliest age, suddenly put in charge of mere mortals who have to work hard at their craft, won't have the first clue how to improve them because he never had to tackle these obstacles himself. Cruyff is probably the all-time exception, but he'd already been instilled with a lot of tactical understanding and initiative through total football in his playing career, and when he became a manager he was hardly working with duffers at Ajax and Barcelona.
RE: General media gossip - Blue Baggie - 09-01-2024
Blues appoint TM. Good decision IMHO.
RE: General media gossip - Blue Baggie - 24-01-2024
The takeover has gone very quiet.
One week of the window left.
Generally transfers are very quiet.
I thought we would have binned Kelly for sure.