Spoony
The People's President
...and then got sacked.
Yeah but I was talking about instant impact, generally new managers do for a month before tailing off.
...and then got sacked.
Yes...but did they all vastly improve their clubs' points return? On average a new manager only makes an improvement of 0.1 points. Sure it's just cold stats but I'd love to see how well the ones you mentioned actually did in the league.
There's two things that annoyed me about him saying that. Firstly, the sheer egotistical stupidity to publicly criticise your manager, and secondly, suggesting that he tries harder in training or "ups his intensity" when he's told he's going to play.
The whole reason for not telling players the team until on the day is to try and keep EVERYONE's intensity and effort up and prevent people being lazy. Is Rio suggesting he should be above this? He has been our worst player this season, which is quite a fete.
I don't understand why he was given a new contract to be honest. If I was manager, at best he'd be told in no uncertain terms to keep his mouth completely shut and that he'd better be working harder than most in training from now on. Though given his performances this season I'd probably just tell him to feck off. He's causing all the problems I was worried would also come from Rooney (who's been the polar opposite).
Why pay to keep an aeging liability around if the only thing he brings to the table attitude wise is lazyness and disrespect?
Yeah that's how I saw it at the time. His stint at Real must've put us off. That said he had the ego to take over at United.
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.Here's what I said about United potentialy appointing Moyes just as Fergie retired last season:
And here again just prior to him being appointed.
It's almost depressing how predictable some of you lot (and Rio Ferdinand) are.
What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.The whole reason for not telling players the team until on the day is to try and keep EVERYONE's intensity and effort up and prevent people being lazy. Is Rio suggesting he should be above this? He has been our worst player this season, which is quite a fete.
If we could find a manager to salvage a top 4 spot this season and appoint a proper replacement in the summer we've done the right thing.Two of those ended up getting sacked midway through the very next season, and the other left before he was able to.
None of the trio that I listed spent any of that money in their success though. So that point is invalid. And nope, just listing examples where sacking someone has had a positive impact.
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.
Have to agree he's getting stick for irrelevant shit like press conferences and interviews or blatantly made up stuff like us being horribly defensive and negative in every game we happen to play shite.
But it's not some fans on the internet that has made the job impossible. The job isn't impossible, it just takes a top manager to be successful in it, which Moyes isn't. He's being criticised because he's in 9th place, he's not in 9th place because he's being criticised.
The same would apply to Mourinho though. You're the leader of a rather large (and petty) anti-Mourinho movement on here, see how you've managed to deem Mourinho a failure so far for Chelsea for having them 3rd and in the CL knockouts. He'd be getting the same unwarranted stick Moyes but from different posters, hanging on every impassive comment he makes in a press conference in a desperate attempt to convince he's said something disgusting and disrespectful.
I think it did put the board off. However I think Jose shows respect to people who deserve respect, not to people who think they deserve it.
...and then got sacked.
...and then got sacked.
If we could find a manager to salvage a top 4 spot this season and appoint a proper replacement in the summer we've done the right thing.
If results are still shit for the rest of December and no signs at all, I think they will make a move before the January window.It would be quite difficult to see him getting sacked, unless he loses the dressing room, in which case the chances would increase.
...and replace him with 'Arry?If results are still shit for the rest of December and no signs at all, I think they will make a move before the January window.
...and replace him with 'Arry?
I'll phone Benitez and ask if he's up for it...
What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.
I think a while ago vs Chelsea in the UCL away SAF told Giggs he would be starting that game 4 weeks before it came around and told him to be ready for it. If my memory serves me correctly he was awesome that game.
"Whatever he did would be classified as failing"... That's simply not true, having us 9th in the table playing terrible football is classified as failing, as it should be.
Have to agree he's getting stick for irrelevant shit like press conferences and interviews or blatantly made up stuff like us being horribly defensive and negative in every game we happen to play shite.
But it's not some fans on the internet that has made the job impossible. The job isn't impossible, it just takes a top manager to be successful in it, which Moyes isn't. He's being criticised because he's in 9th place, he's not in 9th place because he's being criticised.
The same would apply to Mourinho though. You're the leader of a rather large (and petty) anti-Mourinho movement on here, see how you've managed to deem Mourinho a failure so far for Chelsea for having them 3rd and in the CL knockouts. He'd be getting the same unwarranted stick Moyes but from different posters, hanging on every impassive comment he makes in a press conference in a desperate attempt to convince he's said something disgusting and disrespectful.
If we lose our next two games in the league (Villa and West Ham) making it four league defeats in a row, without a win in 6, then I think he'd be sacked.
What happens if you have a really bad couple of training sessions and don't expect to be picked for the next game only to hear the team news and you're starting a hour before KO. I know people will say "for the amount they get paid... etc..." but they are only human at the end of the day and IMO being mentally ready for a game is just as important as being physically fit.
I think a while ago vs Chelsea in the UCL away SAF told Giggs he would be starting that game 4 weeks before it came around and told him to be ready for it. If my memory serves me correctly he was awesome that game.
That's exactly what I'm implying. If a player doesn't expect to play then he's handed a start I don't think he would be as prepared had known about it earlier.I don't get what you're issue is there. Unless you're implying that a player wouldn't want to play because they had a couple of bad training sessions?
How can you say it's had a positive impact when they literally all left within a year and someone new was brought in to have a positive impact?
And didn't Grant take over directly from Mourinho? Who's now ended up coming back and taking over a worse Chelsea side than the one he was originally sacked from?
Well our top two transfer targets were Thiago and Fabregas going by the rumours. Moyes also tried to sign a LB's in Baines and Coentrao and going by Evra's form this season you can see why.
But yes the Fellaini transfer was concerning. Was clearly a panic signing
I didn't say tell all the player a week before training but SAF and SMB used to tell players 1-2 days before a game for them to get ready for it.What happens if a week before a game, Moyes tells Rio he's not playing because Smalling is, then the day before the game, Smalling gets injured and Rio hasn't bothered to prepare himself properly?
If we lose our next two games in the league (Villa and West Ham) making it four league defeats in a row, without a win in 6, then I think he'd be sacked.
Huh? Surely unless you're a complete spastic you prepare for each game as if you're going to play, in which case having a bad cuple of training sessions makes no difference to if you'd been told you were playing a few days prior?
What happens if a week before a game, Moyes tells Rio he's not playing because Smalling is, then the day before the game, Smalling gets injured and Rio hasn't bothered to prepare himself properly?
Pretty much this:Have I missed something? Seen rio mentioned a couple of times on here today
This manager’s a bit different in that he doesn’t name the team beforehand,’ said the United centre back in a BT Sport interview.
‘You don’t really get to know the team. The old manager used to give you a little bit of an idea if you’d be playing and stuff.
‘When you know you’re playing, the intensity goes up a little bit more on matchday. Even if you’re not sure you are playing, you still need to try and get to that level of intensity you’d be at if you knew you were in the team, but it’s hard.
'You spend a lot of nervous energy thinking, “Am I playing?” or “Am I not playing?” and you’re just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman.
If results are still shit for the rest of December and no signs at all, I think they will make a move before the January window.
I didn't say tell all the player a week before training but SAF and SMB used to tell players 1-2 days before a game for them to get ready for it.
I said that example of Giggs to highlight being mentally ready is just as important as being physically fit and I question whether being told on the day of a game is the best way to go about it.