In The Times today and sincere apologies if it on here elsewhere (I checked the first 3 pages) or if it upsets anyone.
Basically he didn't know what a mess we were in post relegation and that we lacked ambition....I did type the full (albeit brief) quote earlier but it didn't save.....
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As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.
1) We were in as steady position as anyone can be post-relegation with the payments and the Bent / Young money.... reinvest that well and you've got a couple of seasons to get us back and all is a-okay, doing fine thanks
2) He must've had one of the biggest budgets in the division that first season back down so how can he say we lacked ambition.
You slimy Palace w*nker, shame on me for ever singing your name.
Us being bottom of the table, and losing every week when we should have been challenging for promotion should have been a clue.
Ok Big Nose, whatever.
What he learnt along the way
Reading
“I didn’t really have too many failures. I was building an exciting young team and enjoying coaching and naively thinking that’s what’s going to happen for the rest of my career.”
West Ham United
“It was learning about the media, what the media wanted. I was naive with the media: I had no training and I didn’t understand why people were attacking me. I learnt you couldn’t win all the time. I already had a thick skin but it started to thicken up at West Ham. I learnt about the politics of football and they were one of the reasons I left.”
Charlton Athletic
“I learnt the impact of relegation, which I had inherited. I wasn’t told how big an impact that would be. I was slightly deceived by the agenda.”
Southampton
“I like to think I set some good things in motion. Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all went on to have great England success. I learnt that the relationship with the chairman is important.”
Newcastle United
“I was well armed. I am always confident I can make teams better. The club had just been promoted and they wanted a different approach. They didn’t want to sign older players such as Michael Owen. I learnt that you have to show strength and dignity.”
I take it that he learnt so much about the impact of relegation with us he thought he'd do his best to drag us through it again! Our Holloway!!
West Ham also ended badly for him.
Very dignified when he had that spat with Pellegrini and you could lip read him saying "F*ck off you old c*nt".
A great lesson in dignity.
Yep, I like him.
Said that pardont had also said on many occasions he wanted to manage charlton
I'm glad it is now clear he was talking about West Ham because it was the suggestion he wasn't media aware enough by the time he arrived at Charlton which I found incredulous.
I believe we were decieved in thinking he was any good, he landed here, sucked the remainder of our resources dry, bullied staff with his ascerbic tongue and arrogant attitude, and failed miserably.
His touchline behaviour alone at Newcastle reveals more about his character than his self delusion when he reports on his experience here. Newcastle fans, West Ham, Southampton and us are all wrong are we Alan?
Look in the mirror, you are riding the wave of a team already mostly assembled, at a poxy club that isn't close to sorting out it's stadium issues, and you're going to blow all their money on your latest vanity project. The amazing thing is you keep getting away with it Alan. In my opinion you are a deeply flawed character and sadly one day you won't get what's coming, because you have exploited your very limited ability to become a multi millionaire.
You are the perfect example as to why life is unfair.