Adkins is front runner for the job!! While I initially thought poor Pompey, he took us on a run which almost resulted in us making the playoffs. it was the following season he was pony.
Adkins is front runner for the job!! While I initially thought poor Pompey, he took us on a run which almost resulted in us making the playoffs. it was the following season he was pony.
Adkins is front runner for the job!! While I initially thought poor Pompey, he took us on a run which almost resulted in us making the playoffs. it was the following season he was pony.
Ah, this will be the former Huddersfield manager appointed by their former Football Director, Stuart Webber ... who is the current Director of Football at Carrow Road ...
Darren Ferguson's had his break, time to return again for his 11th spell in charge
I know you're kidding, but it actually wouldn't surprise me that much, and makes some sense - 2 out of the 3 times he's left its because he's not been able to keep them in the Championship, but his record with them in L1 has been good.
Remarkable really, the 4th time he's been made manager there.
How do you hire a guy you got rid of 3 times already. If it didn't work then, why will it work now?
Suppose they always know there is a chance of him winning promotion to the Championship with them
He's achieved that three times already
Trouble is they equally know he cant hack it in the Championship, so whats the point of him helping them get promoted to the Championship THEN find a new man to lead them in the Division above, and it still potentially doesnt work because the new Manager hasn't had the time to work with the squad
It looks like David Wagner will be the new Norwich boss
Confirmed. Rolling 12 month contract, so not a massive vote of confidence. Andy Hughes (our former player) promoted from loan manager to 1st team coach
Looks like Roberto Martinez is about to be named the new Portugal manager.
He must have a very good agent to get that gig after the shit show of Belgium's world cup.
There is no doubt that Belgium underperformed in the WC and perhaps Martinez did overstay his welcome. But this is, by all accounts, a very difficult group to manage due to the inherent factions within the squad. Martinez, for the most part, managed to keep them together but for that final year or so when the apparent splits become more evident once again. There are three other aspects to take into consideration.
One is the is the ageing nature of the squad (no less than seven of their so called best starting XI are 30 or older), two is the absence through injury (hadn't kicked a ball in five weeks 'til he came on) of the man who has 68 international goals to his name and who was clearly unfit when he was thrown on and three is that Belgium actually had two of the four eventual semi finalists in their group - they drew with one (Croatia - ranked 7th) and lost to the other (Morocco - 11th). We don't know how we might we have done without Kane (and only had the equivalent of Batshuayi to replace him with) and with those two teams in our group as opposed to USA (13th), Wales (24th) and Iran (28th). Equally, how many of Belgian's squad, apart from KDB, would get into our side?
Overall Martinez had a 70% win rate from 80 matches and Belgium lost 11 games in that time with more than half of those defeats coming in his final year or so in charge. Southgate, by comparison, has a 60% win rate and England have lost 14 of their 81 matches with him at the helm. And England, if we take the transfer values of the respective squads as a measure, have an infinitely better group to select from.
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How do you hire a guy you got rid of 3 times already. If it didn't work then, why will it work now?
He's achieved that three times already
Trouble is they equally know he cant hack it in the Championship, so whats the point of him helping them get promoted to the Championship THEN find a new man to lead them in the Division above, and it still potentially doesnt work because the new Manager hasn't had the time to work with the squad
Similarly Paul Warne repeatedly took Rotherham up and got relegated, but they stuck with him and he repeated this several times before leaving.
Or Farke who knew how to get Norwich promoted from the Championship, something Dean Smith failed at
It seems that last time it was Ferguson who chose to leave
Paul Hartley has returned to Cove Rangers as boss just seven months after leaving the Scottish Championship club.
Hartley, 46, guided the Aberdeen-based outfit to two league titles as Cove ascended to Scotland's second tier before moving to Hartlepool in June.
However, after being sacked in September, he returns to the Balmoral Stadium to replace Jim McIntyre.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64172874
Could this mean Garner returns to the County Ground?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64139270
He must have a very good agent to get that gig after the shit show of Belgium's world cup.
There is no doubt that Belgium underperformed in the WC and perhaps Martinez did overstay his welcome. But this is, by all accounts, a very difficult group to manage due to the inherent factions within the squad. Martinez, for the most part, managed to keep them together but for that final year or so when the apparent splits become more evident once again. There are three other aspects to take into consideration.
One is the is the ageing nature of the squad (no less than seven of their so called best starting XI are 30 or older), two is the absence through injury (hadn't kicked a ball in five weeks 'til he came on) of the man who has 68 international goals to his name and who was clearly unfit when he was thrown on and three is that Belgium actually had two of the four eventual semi finalists in their group - they drew with one (Croatia - ranked 7th) and lost to the other (Morocco - 11th). We don't know how we might we have done without Kane (and only had the equivalent of Batshuayi to replace him with) and with those two teams in our group as opposed to USA (13th), Wales (24th) and Iran (28th). Equally, how many of Belgian's squad, apart from KDB, would get into our side?
Overall Martinez had a 70% win rate from 80 matches and Belgium lost 11 games in that time with more than half of those defeats coming in his final year or so in charge. Southgate, by comparison, has a 60% win rate and England have lost 14 of their 81 matches with him at the helm. And England, if we take the transfer values of the respective squads as a measure, have an infinitely better group to select from.