Curbs in the Evening Standard
He's been having a chat with Mick Collins“I was told I was on the [Fulham] shortlist but that there were a couple of people ahead of me, so I knew that was going nowhere,” said 52-year-old Curbishley. “I've got to wait and see if the phone rings.
“If you look at my career, my average position in the Premier League is 10th, so that's where I need to be looking. No offence to anyone else but the Premier League is where everyone wants to be.
“I'll maybe have to reposition myself. Who knows? Start over again, if I have to. It's damaged me a bit, because I've been out for a while, and it's hard to come back if you're away for too long.”
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Great manager and I think Fulham will regret not putting him number 1 on the list.
Great manager, but times move on and it becomes ever more difficult for a chairman to take a risk on someone who the fan will see as 'yesterday's man'.
Great manager, but times move on and it becomes ever more difficult for a chairman to take a risk on someone who the fan will see as 'yesterday's man'.[/quote]
Sadly I agree, he needs to look at a reasonable championship team that he can move forward and rehabilitate his reputation.
Maybe more of our fans would appreciate you properly now.
Len's Favourite subject :-)
He's right though.
I think he's expecting too much if he thinks a top ten side will offer him a job.
He was magnificent here but some of his signings at West Ham was dubious and his ability to man-manage 'big name' players must be in doubt if he wasn't able to handle the likes of Danny Murphy, Paul Konchesky etc who are nothing more than 'mid-name' players at best.
probably why he isnt Fulhams number 1 target then
He has accepted that he may have to step back and start again. Sounds like a marriage made in heaven, if he can remember the route to the Valley!
Having said that, Curbs has been out of management for a long time - he's become the "nearly man" - nearly appointed at several clubs now. He may find he has to re-build his reputation by lowering his target - however, at this stage in his life I doubt that he'll want to go down as far as a League 1 club with no money though.
going over old ground here but I'd back myself to keep a side up if I had Macherano and Tevez as well as Reo-Coker and Benayoun plus £50m to spend in the January transfer window
as it was they were dead and buried thanks to results such as 0-6 at Reading and 0-4 at the Valley until Tevez produced the goods in the final 2 months of the season and Sheff Utd somehow managed to lose at home to Wigan on the final day...
clearly Curbs then did a superb job the following season to finish in 6th place but he was lucky not to be overseeing a promotion challenge from the Championship (assuming he was still in a job)
They were not in relegation zone when he took them over.
You could say he actually got them in more trouble than the manager he replaced.
west ham were in the relegation zone when sir alan took over at upton park.
Who the hell can Fulham attract that is a better manager?
Murphy is having some input? K-ryst - I wouldn't ask him to recommend a curry house!
I reckon that plank Al Fayed will appoint Sven.