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It is a shame really, as I always found West Brom's support to be a convivial bunch, and it is a grand old club steeped in working class traditions and with a solid history.  But I really will enjoy seeing that grifting fat cunt lose regularly.

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8 hours ago, Dr Jinx said:


He won’t be given that long.. be gone by end of November at the latest.. it’s exactly what he wants. Man is an absolute charlatan, all he sees is his next severance package to add his his retirement nest egg. He’ll take as many of them as he can get.


Thats why I said close to relegation, he won’t get that on his CV as they’ll have to give him his annual payout.

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Honestly I reckon by constantly being sacked a short while into long contracts, he must have made more money as a manager than some seriously successful managers who do well enough to stay to the end of their contracts before moving on.

 

This "rewarding people for failure" mechanism surely needs to end? If I were a chairman I'd have some clause in there that "If we provide you with X transfer funds and you're not in Y position by Z date, you're gone with nothing".

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4 minutes ago, Chris_R said:

Honestly I reckon by constantly being sacked a short while into long contracts, he must have made more money as a manager than some seriously successful managers who do well enough to stay to the end of their contracts before moving on.

 

This "rewarding people for failure" mechanism surely needs to end? If I were a chairman I'd have some clause in there that "If we provide you with X transfer funds and you're not in Y position by Z date, you're gone with nothing".

 

Only desperate managers would accept something like that, and it has been Bruce that has been approached by clubs, not the other way around, so why would/should he accept something like that when his services are in demand?

Clubs just needs to be better at recruitment.

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8 minutes ago, Conjo said:

 

Only desperate managers would accept something like that, and it has been Bruce that has been approached by clubs, not the other way around, so why would/should he accept something like that when his services are in demand?

Clubs just needs to be better at recruitment.

 

I don't think only desperate managers would accept that. I think confident managers would accept, if the targets were realistic and you genuinely believed in yourself, and young hungry ones. Don't forget, "we can sack you for nothing (or a smaller fee than your full contract) if you fail to hit X" doesn't mean "we WILL sack you if you fail to hit X" - Extenuating circumstances like injuries etc can always be factored in and the board must still have a genuine desire to change manager in order to get rid of you.

I do agree that it would be a difficult sell for many though and we're a long way short of it becoming a thing, but I find it genuinely disgusting and offensive watching people like Bruce, Pardew etc lurch from failure to failure with £Xm payouts all the time.

 

The managerial recruitment scene needs an overhaul, where such failure is not rewarded. They need either short contracts so that payouts are minimised, or payouts are linked to achievements.

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28 minutes ago, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said:

:lol: Nee club crest on that polo shirt genuinely makes him look like a gas fitter.

Gas fitters worldwide now up in arms and boycotting bacon 

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1 hour ago, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said:

:lol: Nee club crest on that polo shirt genuinely makes him look like a gas fitter.

"That's being a landlord and heating engineer for you.  As I've said many, many times, a bit of carbon monoxide is nothing to worry about.  Some of my tenants have rode their luck at times, but if one of them dies then we dust ourselves down and go again."

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10 hours ago, Chris_R said:

Honestly I reckon by constantly being sacked a short while into long contracts, he must have made more money as a manager than some seriously successful managers who do well enough to stay to the end of their contracts before moving on.

 

This "rewarding people for failure" mechanism surely needs to end? If I were a chairman I'd have some clause in there that "If we provide you with X transfer funds and you're not in Y position by Z date, you're gone with nothing".


“But but how can A work under such pressure?”

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2 hours ago, RodneyCisse said:


“But but how can A work under such pressure?”

 

How can they work knowing that if they fail to meet expectations, they won't get millions of pounds as a reward for failing?

 

I dunno, same as the rest of us manage?

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Only job in the world you get paid your full contract for being totally shite. Its not right but it is what it is. 

 

Imagine signing a multi million contract knowing you will get paid if you fail!! 

 

Meet Steve Bruce. Epic failure on just about every managerial level. 

 

 

Edited by Dan Gleebals

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