Silhillvilla
Vital Football Legend
That really shouldn't be difficult if we have competent people running the clubTo my mind , only if a significant improvement is lined up and ready to go.
That really shouldn't be difficult if we have competent people running the clubTo my mind , only if a significant improvement is lined up and ready to go.
That really shouldn't be difficult if we have competent people running the club
No. Not falling into that trap. We've already covered this. Facts are smith is now an absolute liability and has to go.Go on then . Enlighten me ?
But Manure don't let the manager buy the players, or even have much of a say in it, and Spuds don't buy players if they can possibly help it.Every managerial appointment is a gamble to a certain extent. The stars have to align to find the right man, for the right price and who can work with the players he has (or have the resources and support to bring in his own). We only need to look at the likes of ManUre and Spuds in the past five years to see evidence of clubs with massive resources being unable to get things right. Nobody would have thought that Moyes, VanGaal and Mourinho would be seen as managerial failures, given their prior success. Chelski, for all their trophies have been decidedly hit and miss (Villas-Boas, Benitez, DiMatteo for example). Even Guardiola had to spend a quarter of a billion pounds to try and get his defence right.
Then you look at Villa down the years. Who thought that John Gregory would be the right man? Journeyman utility player with very little managerial experience, plucked from Wycombe. Whereas O'Leary and Lambert were both viewed by many as the ideal candidates....
No. Not falling into that trap. We've already covered this. Facts are smith is now an absolute liability and has to go.
Really not a good comparison, genuinely.That's a cop out.
I 'll quote Ron Saunders in his programme notes for the home game v Southampton in 1981 after we had been beaten 2-0 by Spurs the week before and got loads of criticism and had been written off by the press.
Confucius said
"When you hark to the voice of the knocker
And listen to his hammer fall
Remember the fact
That the knockers act
Requires no brains at all"
Really not a good comparison, genuinely.
2021 , 35 games. Facts.
It's starting to look more like 'noise' to be honest. The did great to get us out of the shit but last summer wasn't an exhibition of serious ambition at all.The noises the club have made since NSWE took over, in terms of ambition, I would expect us to at least try for the very best managers we can realistically get. (Or even unrealistically, tbh)
We have to sell the shit out of the project.
And if we fail to get any of them, well at least we tried, and we then look at whoever is on our “tier 2” list of candidates.
Shall not be happy if we go straight in for a Terry, Potter etc. (Neither of which I would consider “tier 2”)
It's starting to look more like 'noise' to be honest. The did great to get us out of the shit but last summer wasn't an exhibition of serious ambition at all.
IMO the task to genuinely crack the top 4-6 consistently is too big for us. It will take enormous spending consistently. It will take a lot of time to build the club up commercially to secure the profits required to spend so big.
I'd be quite surprised if the owners interest in the club will be sustained for the time this project will really take. I hope I'm wrong, but the task seems too big given where football has gone.
Yes two weeks to fix this fucking mess nothing personal Smith you're just not a very good Premier League manager.