Alex Neil can still look back a proud man. Did brilliantly when he first arrived and took the club to the Premier League. Absolutely destroyed Middlesbrough in the Playoff Final.
Struggled in the prem, but what promoted side doesn't? fans can hardly be unhappy.
Hasn't worked out this year for him but not a terrible season, just a bit up and down. I imagine the board wanted to do a Dyche with him and see if he could get them straight back up.
Needless to say, fans on the Norwich Forum are celebrating his departure. Just cementing my conclusions that football fans are the biggest morons on the planet. I suspect the problem is that Neil didn't win the champions league.
Seen Norwich a few times this season and have definitely under performed this season. The manager appeared to stick to a rigid diamond formation with one striker even when they were losing. Their defense looked really fragile. Lots of fan unrest. I wonder if the timing of his sacking (Friday) was after Glasgow Rangers announced the appointment of a foreign manager, a job that Alex Neil was apparently connected with, and would have saved the club a 2 million severance fee. Just a thought.
he walked out last season, the relationship has been bad for a while .. can't think of a fire fighter manager who is available to come in to save the YoYoing 'Boro .. could be yet another North East double, boro and the Mackems for the drop
he walked out last season, the relationship has been bad for a while .. can't think of a fire fighter manager who is available to come in to save the YoYoing 'Boro .. could be yet another North East double, boro and the Mackems for the drop
And if Newcastle were to drop out of the top two and so fail to come back up...
Leaves the whole of the North East without a Premier League team
he walked out last season, the relationship has been bad for a while .. can't think of a fire fighter manager who is available to come in to save the YoYoing 'Boro .. could be yet another North East double, boro and the Mackems for the drop
He was missing for the game at the Valley, so missed the stressball disruption, then curiously came back straight after
Agnew was disappointed to see Jordan Rhodes, his nephew, sidelined by the manager and offered no chance to show whether his Championship goalscoring feats could be replicated in the top tier. Part of the problem was Karanka felt Rhodes, now at Sheffield Wednesday, did not fit into his 4-2-3-1 system and could not operate as a lone striker.
You really have to despair at club ownership these days.
Looks like Wolves are set to sack Paul Lambert because he wanted to have control over the players that get brought into the club... note this is a Manager who came in and saved Wolves after they decided to hire Walter Zenga (replacing Kenny Jackett) this time last season... Now after Lambert has saved them from relegation, they're going to replace him with another foreign Manager in ex-Porto boss: Nuno Espirito Santo!!
The old school way of managing seems to be on its way out. There's a lot of "head coaches" about and a number of clubs actually have a transfer panel. Chelsea and spurs being two of them
I know it's not the traditional way of doing it but a transfer panel I think is a good idea, provided the people on it are competent.... and thus it will never work under RD.
I know it's not the traditional way of doing it but a transfer panel I think is a good idea, provided the people on it are competent.... and thus it will never work under RD.
Yeah but Katie enjoys doing it herself so end of discussion.
You really have to despair at club ownership these days.
Looks like Wolves are set to sack Paul Lambert because he wanted to have control over the players that get brought into the club... note this is a Manager who came in and saved Wolves after they decided to hire Walter Zenga (replacing Kenny Jackett) this time last season... Now after Lambert has saved them from relegation, they're going to replace him with another foreign Manager in ex-Porto boss: Nuno Espirito Santo!!
Owners like this really do deserve relegation forced upon them each season... the fans however do not!!
Lambert is probably better off out of it. Was always doomed from the moment he said he'd be mainly looking at British signings whereas Wolves now only tend to buy players who are managed by Jorge Mendes.
Lambert is good enough to get another, if not better, championship job.
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Struggled in the prem, but what promoted side doesn't? fans can hardly be unhappy.
Hasn't worked out this year for him but not a terrible season, just a bit up and down. I imagine the board wanted to do a Dyche with him and see if he could get them straight back up.
Needless to say, fans on the Norwich Forum are celebrating his departure. Just cementing my conclusions that football fans are the biggest morons on the planet. I suspect the problem is that Neil didn't win the champions league.
Overall, a good 8.5/10 appointment I'd say.
The manager appeared to stick to a rigid diamond formation with one striker even when they were losing.
Their defense looked really fragile.
Lots of fan unrest.
I wonder if the timing of his sacking (Friday) was after Glasgow Rangers announced the appointment of a foreign manager, a job that Alex Neil was apparently connected with, and would have saved the club a 2 million severance fee. Just a thought.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39255049
where p = piss = poor = performance .. & ISWC = instant, sack, with, compensation
Leaves the whole of the North East without a Premier League team
Looks like Wolves are set to sack Paul Lambert because he wanted to have control over the players that get brought into the club... note this is a Manager who came in and saved Wolves after they decided to hire Walter Zenga (replacing Kenny Jackett) this time last season... Now after Lambert has saved them from relegation, they're going to replace him with another foreign Manager in ex-Porto boss: Nuno Espirito Santo!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39896630
Owners like this really do deserve relegation forced upon them each season... the fans however do not!!
Lambert is good enough to get another, if not better, championship job.
Oh hang on!!
Wasn't aware of their recent financial injection, but would imagine the investors had quite high expectations for this season.
4 games is madness, but not remotely surprising in this day and age.