The Managerial Merry Go Round™ - Will Still Southampton manager

[brummie]

23 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said:

Something like that

btw did you see the empty seats at Villa against Brentford.

 

It was sold out, we haven't failed to sell out a home game for ages now. Just ST holders not showing, I guess.

[brummie]

Incidentally, when I go on about Gerrard, remember, I thought it was a stupid appointment (and said so on here at the time) but was absolutely happy to give him a chance, and probably gave him longer than the majority of our fans did. I am the voice of moderation when i talk about him.

 

That is how mind-numbingly fucking horrible his regime was. Like being transported back to 1984.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by brummie

[Kimbo]

Decent appointment. I bet he’s been absolutely gutted watching Howe’s success here and must fancy his chances of doing similar.

[Wolfcastle]

7 minutes ago, brummie said:

 

It was sold out, we haven't failed to sell out a home game for ages now. Just ST holders not showing, I guess.

Fair enough. Was just going off what I could see.

Tend to rely on that with a club down the road inflating attenandce figures.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by Wolfcastle

[gbandit]

Bournemouth’s attacking play has to be the worst in the league, painful to watch them attempting to move the ball round 

[JumpersForGoalposts]

7 minutes ago, Kimbo said:

Decent appointment. I bet he’s been absolutely gutted watching Howe’s success here and must fancy his chances of doing similar.

I can't wait to see the look on his face when we paste them and he realises that Eddie is doing an amazing job at an amazing club and he is stuck trying to pick up the pieces from the devastation slippy left behind, at a shit club with a bunch of cunts for fans. The look on his face will be delicious.

[SUPERTOON]

4 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Bournemouth’s attacking play has to be the worst in the league, painful to watch them attempting to move the ball round 

Still annoyed we didn’t beat them 

[SAK]

Good appointment, hope he does shit.

[toon25]

1 hour ago, LV said:

 

The fella wouldn’t even be able to point Birmingham out on a map 

[Kid Icarus]

1 hour ago, Jack27 said:

 Nonsense is starting 

The 1 like would suggest it's not starting

[elbee909]

Gambling, that's really principled and not exploiting anyone eh 'Mikebetsonstuff'.

[gbandit]

I know Twitter is absolutely rammed with idiots but the Villa fans seem to work especially hard to put themselves as imbeciles 

[TheBrownBottle]

1 hour ago, KaKa said:

 

Some really strange stuff going on between the two clubs. There's a rivalry growing

 

Would love it if Emery bombs. Found his carrying on after our approach extremely irritating.

There’s no rivalry - they acted like complete wankers in 2009 about a club with which they had zero history.  Most of us now get schadenfreude when something unfortunate happens to them, but I can’t say I’m any more arsed when we play them compared to playing anyone else, really.  They’re trying to force a rivalry, and there’s a massive chip on the shoulder down there it seems.  They seem obsessed of late of players and managers going there instead of here (even though this appears to have only happened with Digne.  How did that one work out?).  Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure we all wish we had Emery instead of Howe, Carlos instead of Botman, and Coutinho instead of Bruno …  

[LV]

9 minutes ago, gbandit said:

I know Twitter is absolutely rammed with idiots but the Villa fans seem to work especially hard to put themselves as imbeciles 

Think it comes naturally 

[elbee909]

Emery didn't have the guts or self-belief, that Howe did, to get us out of our situation. Dodged a bullet.

[Joey Linton]

No problem at all with Emery deciding he wasn't good enough to keep us up, his call to make. Exactly the same call as van de Beek made opting to play a bit part role in almost relegating Everton before heading back to sit on the Man United bench in a world cup year.

[cubaricho]

4 hours ago, elbee909 said:

Emery didn't have the guts or self-belief, that Howe did, to get us out of our situation. Dodged a bullet.

 

 

3 hours ago, Joey Linton said:

No problem at all with Emery deciding he wasn't good enough to keep us up, his call to make. Exactly the same call as van de Beek made opting to play a bit part role in almost relegating Everton before heading back to sit on the Man United bench in a world cup year.

Fuck ‘em. And so happy to say that.  

[David Edgar]

5 hours ago, elbee909 said:

Emery didn't have the guts or self-belief, that Howe did, to get us out of our situation. Dodged a bullet.

 

This isn't true from what I've read.  The club fucked up and then wouldn't pay his release.

[Groundhog63]

No Emery bashing here. 

For whatever reason he chose not to bin his club off the day they were playing in Europe. 

Certainly didn't bottle anything or turn his nose up. 

Timing and diplomacy, or lack of, being the issues. Imho

 

As it happens it turned out in our favour. 

[St1pe]

15 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

No Emery bashing here. 

For whatever reason he chose not to bin his club off the day they were playing in Europe. 

Certainly didn't bottle anything or turn his nose up. 

Timing and diplomacy, or lack of, being the issues. Imho

 

As it happens it turned out in our favour. 

Nailed it. 
 

He’s a fantastic manger and still underrated. We were bottom of the league while he was in Europe and arguably pushing for the title. 
 

I was gutted when it fell through but as you said it worked in our favour. I don’t think there’s a manager in world football that could have got a single extra point and changed the culture of the entire club like Howe has. 

[ExiledGeordie]

1 hour ago, St1pe said:

Nailed it. 
 

He’s a fantastic manger and still underrated. We were bottom of the league while he was in Europe and arguably pushing for the title. 
 

I was gutted when it fell through but as you said it worked in our favour. I don’t think there’s a manager in world football that could have got a single extra point and changed the culture of the entire club like Howe has. 

Exactly this. It’s just the way things worked out but it worked out great for us anyway. It’ll be interesting to see how Emery does with this group of players. He’s clearly a great coach and probably has a point to prove still in the premier league. 

[TheBrownBottle]

Yep, I'll add to the 'that's a good appointment' brigade.  Emery is a very good manager - though an actual manager would likely be a step up from Steeeevie Geeee.  Can't see them being troubled by relegation with him in charge; I'd guess he'll get them comfortable in the PL this season.  Pisser that the appointment wasn't next week instead of this, but we should still go into that game with confidence.

[Stifler]

He’s a good manager but I think it will take him a little time for him to change their way of playing to his. He’s a good appointment only if they give him time.

[GeordieDazzler]

He is obviously head and shoulders ahead of Gerrard as a coach and definitely a much better appointment, but to play devils advocate for a few moments;

 

- doesn’t tend to last over 3 years at anyone club and tends to leave before his contract expires, although was sacked at Arsenal

- he’s a more pragmatic coach than attacking one a big complaint from Arsenal fans was a real lack of a defined playing style

- he’s good at setting up teams for matches against bigger opposition as evidenced in some of his results with Villarreal in the CL, however he can struggle when it’s on him to dictate the game 

- there is going to be a lot of pressure from the outset, these owners already got one marquee appointment wrong a second could be fatal for them. 
- The pressure and exposure at Villarreal is far below what will be expected of him at Villa, although he’s been a plenty big clubs earlier in his career. 

 

He will improve Villa, there’s no doubt in that but could be a rather expensive medium term appointment and may not take them as far as their ambitions lie. 
 

 

[Stifler]

I have to kind of disagree with your last point there. Over the last 20 years I’d say Villarreal have been a bigger club than Villa. Villarreal have regularly played in Europe, including the Champions League and have been much more competitive La Liga than Villa have been in the Premier League. Let’s not also not disregard the fact that Villa at one point looked more in danger of dropping to League One than being promoted.