Can't believe Ten Hag is gone. He was doing a great job and should have been given more time
Beating Man City in the FA cup final helped him keep his job initially and apparently Ten hag took 1 more point than Ferguson did in the same amount of games.
Man United were a Global football team even before social media and they need to be a top 4 team and contenders.
Tough gig but well paid Job for the next incumbent.
RVN will put himself in the shop window for a decent managers job even though unlikely to be United as every loss is a "disaster" as Ex United players go on about ad nauseam on various TV and social media platforms.
Burton isn't an attractive job for an established manager. They're main success has generally been with young managers
Burton is an absolute car crash. Taken over by a Swedish concern in the summer, they appointed one of their directors as 'Sporting Director' who proceeded to 'headhunt' Mark Robinson as head coach (who had an astonishing 20 League One games without a win at AFC Wimbledon in 2021-22 before they sacked him). They then signed a British record 23 new players based on statistical data, very few of whom had any League One experience. The rumour is that the Sporting Director sources and signs the players with no input from the coach: Robinson appeared to confirm that a few weeks before the transfer window closed when he said he had no idea what was happening with the squad or whether any more players were being signed.
Is it any wonder Robinson extended his winless League One run to 31 games before the bullet came his way?
Who exactly do Burton think they are going to get? How many head coaches would be willing to work under those conditions, if the rumours are true?
The two leading candidates appear to be former Lincoln & Swindon disaster Mark Kennedy and some bloke from a club in Iceland. Presumably the supermarket chain, not the country.
Further developments at Burton: Sporting Director Bendik Hareide (son of Iceland manager Age, incidentally) has stepped down for an indefinite period due to family circumstances. He is being replaced by Icelander Olafur Pall Snorrason, who had two spells with Bolton as a player at the turn of the century without making an appearance and had one season managing an Icelandic second division side in 2018. Some strange thinking there. Can't wait to see who gets the manager's job there.
Further developments at Burton: Sporting Director Bendik Hareide (son of Iceland manager Age, incidentally) has stepped down for an indefinite period due to family circumstances. He is being replaced by Icelander Olafur Pall Snorrason, who had two spells with Bolton as a player at the turn of the century without making an appearance and had one season managing an Icelandic second division side in 2018. Some strange thinking there. Can't wait to see who gets the manager's job there.
A manager is always 3 games away from getting their P45
420 matches in two spells with 387 of those in his most recent seven year stint. You don't last that long without knowing what you're doing especially at a club like Coventry which has been in turmoil for most of his tenure. In the summer of 2023 they sold Gustavo Hamer and Viktor Gyokeres for a combined £36m. I'm not sure that he was given all of that to build the team. He won't be out of work for long that's for sure.
Talking about Gyokeres, of course he scored hat-trick against City this week to make it 23 goals in 15 games for Sporting this season and a total of 64 goals in 67 appearances since he left Brighton. For just £1m!!! The £20m that Sporting paid Coventry looks a relative snip, given the likes of Arsenal and United as potential purchasers and this has to be one of Tony Bloom's biggest financial mistake. Not that he makes, to be fair, that many of them.
This is up there for one of the craziest decisions I've seen for a while. Robins I thought had so much credit in the bank that he'd get the time to turn things around. Won't be out of work for long I'm sure, Hull should probably be straight on the phone if their owner hasn't lost the plot.
This is up there for one of the craziest decisions I've seen for a while. Robins I thought had so much credit in the bank that he'd get the time to turn things around. Won't be out of work for long I'm sure, Hull should probably be straight on the phone if their owner hasn't lost the plot.
Utter madness. I can only guess something happened in the background that we aren’t privy to like he was sniffing around for a job and CCFC got wind of it.
Utter madness. I can only guess something happened in the background that we aren’t privy to like he was sniffing around for a job and CCFC got wind of it.
if not then it’s absolute lunacy from them
Coventry were 17th in the Championship so despite being the 3rd longest manager at one club in the top 4 tiers after Pep and Weaver at Harrogate (his Dad's Chairman) Mark Robins loses his Job.
When you sell your main striker Viktor Gyökeres to Sporting Lisbon for 20 million who would've thought they may struggle once a guy with 41 goals in 110 apps leaves !
45 goals in 43 games and 15 assists at Sporting Lisbon has elevated him to top trumps and helped Reuben Amorim get the gig at Man United.
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Beating Man City in the FA cup final helped him keep his job initially and apparently Ten hag took 1 more point than Ferguson did in the same amount of games.
Man United were a Global football team even before social media and they need to be a top 4 team and contenders.
Tough gig but well paid Job for the next incumbent.
RVN will put himself in the shop window for a decent managers job even though unlikely to be United as every loss is a "disaster" as Ex United players go on about ad nauseam on various TV and social media platforms.
Is it any wonder Robinson extended his winless League One run to 31 games before the bullet came his way?
Who exactly do Burton think they are going to get? How many head coaches would be willing to work under those conditions, if the rumours are true?
The two leading candidates appear to be former Lincoln & Swindon disaster Mark Kennedy and some bloke from a club in Iceland. Presumably the supermarket chain, not the country.
Talking about Gyokeres, of course he scored hat-trick against City this week to make it 23 goals in 15 games for Sporting this season and a total of 64 goals in 67 appearances since he left Brighton. For just £1m!!! The £20m that Sporting paid Coventry looks a relative snip, given the likes of Arsenal and United as potential purchasers and this has to be one of Tony Bloom's biggest financial mistake. Not that he makes, to be fair, that many of them.
Checking their recent results, they haven't even been that bad. They lost their lost game vs Derby, but won the previous ones against Boro and Luton.
if not then it’s absolute lunacy from them
Coventry were 17th in the Championship so despite being the 3rd longest manager at one club in the top 4 tiers after Pep and Weaver at Harrogate (his Dad's Chairman) Mark Robins loses his Job.
When you sell your main striker Viktor Gyökeres to Sporting Lisbon for 20 million who would've thought they may struggle once a guy with 41 goals in 110 apps leaves !
45 goals in 43 games and 15 assists at Sporting Lisbon has elevated him to top trumps and helped Reuben Amorim get the gig at Man United.