I don't know why, I somehow feel sorry for him.
Telegraph Investigation: England Manager Sam Allardyce For Sale | Big Sam leaves England job
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He'd lose his job if they hadn't just hired him. As it is he'll probably just get a slap on the wrist.
I always believed Ravel.
Arise, ye chosen.
Specifying that one involves a Premier League club suggests that the others don't. With how they're stringing it out it's clear they really want to get people talking so I suspect their idea of who qualifies as high-profile is different from yours and mine.
I hope that if Sam Allardyce is sacked that England now go for a young manager, i mean lets face it England have been flopping since 1996, can anyone do a worse job than the any England manager in the past 20 years? probably not.
Lets stop messing about and get someone in who has a passion to build something, we have some very good young talent.
Sam is effective, give him a task and he will deliver it, but like Roy Hodgson he is "safe" so we probably won't progress much in the next 4 years if he stays.
Lets stop messing about and get someone in who has a passion to build something, we have some very good young talent.
Sam is effective, give him a task and he will deliver it, but like Roy Hodgson he is "safe" so we probably won't progress much in the next 4 years if he stays.
Is it just me or this is a complete nonsense story by the Telegraph? I'm not one of Sam's biggest fans but he has said or did nothing here but his face will be over the papers tomorrow
If the FA sacked him tomorrow then he should sue them for wrongful dismissal
If the FA sacked him tomorrow then he should sue them for wrongful dismissal
I thought it was a satire until I read the article. Quite a serious one, that is. Hopefully it will be sorted out quickly.
I'd imagine him telling agents how to circumvent FA rules is a legitimate problem for the FA.
Oh Sam, you fecking idiot. I'd be surprised if he can survive this.
I'd be surprised if he can survive this.This is hilarious
Great news for England though, the FA might hire someone decent now.
Great news for England though, the FA might hire someone decent now.
He's got the balls england have lacked. Give him a contract extension for being such a boss.
You realise this is England right? It's going to be Pardew or Bruce, neither are as good as Big Sam. I'd like Bruce to get it though and do well, but I wouldn't expect it.This is hilarious
Great news for England though, the FA might hire someone decent now.
#WayneRooneyforManager
Zero fecks given, thats the Allardyce motto.
If it gets him to retire, I'm all for it.
Big Sam: good at circumventing complicated transfer laws, not so good at getting Wayne Rooney to play where he wants him.
He's got to go for that.
There's always been rumours about his shady dealings so this is hardly surprising.
There's always been rumours about his shady dealings so this is hardly surprising.
Manchester City??? Great idea!! Oh, right you mean England. Sorry
Get Eddie Howe in!
"...but, but he's too young" can be damned, we've won nothing with the last few dinosaurs.
"...but, but he's too young" can be damned, we've won nothing with the last few dinosaurs.
This is right up there with the Sven Goran Eriksson News of the world sting with the fake sheikh. The FA backed Eriksson then, so it will be interesting to see what they do now.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/16/pressandpublishing.football
In Sam's defence, I read that he did say that he would have to clear this arrangement with the FA.
I don't really care what happens with this because I believe that if Sam Allardyce is our best hope as England manager, we are going nowhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/16/pressandpublishing.football
In Sam's defence, I read that he did say that he would have to clear this arrangement with the FA.
I don't really care what happens with this because I believe that if Sam Allardyce is our best hope as England manager, we are going nowhere.
That would be quick.
I'm sticking with Wednesday because the FA will want to make it look like they've considered this carefully.
He already is.
To me this is a clear cut case of corruption. He has a duty towards the FA and deals like the ones discussed in the videos would keep him from making a neutral judgement (Does he call up someone his client has invested in? Does he not call him up if he isn't willing to cooperate...).
Him talking about helping them violate the rules of his own employer (disallowing 3rd party ownership) is really just the icing on the cake.
This is so absurd I wouldn't be surprised if he was drunk out of his mind when talking to those journalists.
This is brilliant. Now watch the FA ruin it by hiring Southgate...
Leave him alone. I reckon he will get more out of the England team than any of the other bland feckers we've had recently.
I hear Bielsa is available.
I want him to get sacked just for fallout. Should be some great viewing.
*grabs popcorn*
*grabs popcorn*
This will end up as one massive clusterfeck. At first thought I'd say it's game over for Sam, but I would definitely take punt on him surviving this.
I mean look at FIFA and Uefa, you'd think that after Blatter and Platini things would really change, in reality Infantino is just another crook
I mean look at FIFA and Uefa, you'd think that after Blatter and Platini things would really change, in reality Infantino is just another crook
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Give it a couple of weeks in the England job and he'll have abandoned his sophisticated tactics, instead favouring Chris Smalling knocking up constant long balls to Andy Carroll.
Best to sack him now before England suffers another embarrassment. We were not going to get anywhere with him anyway. His strategic intent most likely involved Rooney playing until he is 40, with some long ball, direct football gameplan.
"Big Scam" - you can't beat Sun headlines
I think this would be genius appointment. Bielsa is exactly the type of manager England needs IMO. They need a little more though like Germany of 14 years ago. Bielsa would be perfect for the Klinsmann/Low roles but England really needs someone to protect the manager and work the bureaucracy the way Bierhoff did for Klimsmann and Low.
Bielsa is perfect from a tactical and training perspective. With most of the best young English talent now being trained by a diversity of the best continental managers in Mou, Pep, Klopp, Wenger, Poch, Conte the NT team manager really needs to be someone with a footballing vision to bring them all together. Big Sam isn't that person, but I think Bielsa could be. His style is perfectly suited to England for me. No one ever accused a Bielsa side of not putting in shifts. That alone ensures he'd be loved by the English press. He is familiar with modern concepts of pressing, counter press, juego de posición, and tempo control. And his concepts can mesh with all the foreign mangers the young generation of English footballers are being managed by. His football is exciting and attractive.
His weakness though is he would really need a Bierhoff type to manage the bureaucracy and administration for him because that would be his downfall.
They'll probably opt for Gordon Brittas.
His one big chance at the top level and he does this. You'd think managers will be smarter than footballers. Apparently not.
Not when they used to be footballers
