• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Manager Sack Watch

parklane1 said:
The guy is a complete knobhead.
Click to expand...

You can take the boy out of Liverpool but never take.............

He has, like many from that part of the world, a tendency to punch first and think later in the cell.

Same he's quite a bright bloke until he reverts to kind.
 
QPR GO FOR WARBURTON

Mark Warburton is set to be confirmed as the new manager ofQueens Park Rangers, Sky Sports News understands.

The former Brentford, Rangers and Nottingham Forest boss has been out of work since he was sacked by Forest on New Year's Eve 2017

Sky Sports News understands QPR's present caretaker manager John Eustace will remain at the club as Warburton's assistant.



Good move for QPR
 
They are going to get relegated next season.

I know Hughton is a bit too pragmatic for some, a little safety first etc, but he is a bloody good manager and they wont replace him with better.

I wouldnt be at all surprised to see him take over another Championship club, and get them up waving to Brighton as they go past them...
 
What are they expecting their manager to do? He got them to the PL and kept them up twice. They reached the FA Cup semi-final and lost to City.

This is what happens when club owners start dreaming. It usually ends badly, so relegation next season is on the cards.

He is the seventh Premier League manager to be sacked this season.
Click to expand...

Is this a low by recent standards?
 
Last edited:
jts1882 said:
What are they expecting their manager to do? He got them to the PL and kept them up twice. They reached the FA Cup semi-final and lost to City.

This is what happens when club owners start dreaming. It usually ends badly, so relegation next season is on the cards.

Is this a low by recent standards?
Click to expand...

Im not so sure, they were nose diving after spending a fortune the last couple of season, I make them in the top 8 of spend in the last two seasons and they are nose diving. I get the "what do they expect" but I would expect even Chris Houghton would have expected more this season and if he didn't I would ask why based on the backing he had.
 
I think a lot of that backing was simply trying to get a PL squad.

They basically had a mid table Championship squad when they came up.

It takes money just to try and raise the quality a bit all over, its not like they spent big on major talent (or wages).

Their flop striker was a lot of money for them - but he was £17m, pennies in the current market.
 
Potter favourite for Brighton post
Graham Potter is the favourite for the Brighton manager’s job.

Potter has enjoyed a reasonable first season in English football with Swansea following his move from Ostersund in Sweden.

Here is the latest betting stakes, courtesy of Betfair...

Graham Potter 1/8

Phil Neville 6/1

Michael O’Neill 14/1

Laurent Blanc 20/1

Gary Rowett 20/1

David Moyes 20/1

Alex Neil 20/1

Bruno Genesio 20/1

Sean Dyche 25/1


If this is what they are looking at Id have stuck with Hughton
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I think a lot of that backing was simply trying to get a PL squad.

They basically had a mid table Championship squad when they came up.

It takes money just to try and raise the quality a bit all over, its not like they spent big on major talent (or wages).

Their flop striker was a lot of money for them - but he was £17m, pennies in the current market.
Click to expand...

Not in the market they operate its not.

You look at all their signings and 80% have been flops and the majority are within the final third, he went on a spree for wingers and strikers and they have flopped which means they now have an expensive squad for Brighton and are at the cross roads, do they replace expensive players on 3/4 year contracts and stick with the manager, stick and risk going down with a chunky wage bill or twist and try and get a manager that can get the squad singing a tune.

Likes of Montoya,Jahanbakhsh & Locadia were wanted by Europa League level clubs & Hughton couldn’t extract much from them. Gross & Propper regressed.

I can see why he went
 
By default, as a PL club they are among the richest on the planet.

They dont have Emirates Marketing Project money, but £17m isnt a bank busting sum.

And whether they like it or not, they operate in the same market as everyone else - they dont have a special sub-market where £17m represents a big money buy.

They have struggled for goals, hence buying attacking players. Easier said than done when you are Brighton, though honestly I havent seen enough of them to know whether the players are good enough and need to settle or just duds.

Im not suggesting Houghton is a brilliant manager, and couldnt have done better (clearly he could) - I am suggesting he is very safe pair of hands, has done a tremendous job there and deserved time.

Im also suggesting unless you can obviously improve on him theres no point sacking him - and as it stands I dont see that better manager available to them.
 
He has done a tremendous job but in this day and age its for clubs to right look up and look at the example set by Wolves and Watford and that be the benchmark, this is not Stoke 5/6 years ago, this is about progression and just because they are "plucky Brighton" does not mean they should not aspire to more.

I don't buy the who do they think they are and what doe they expect, the obviously expect more and for the 6th biggest net spend in the league and the volume of players they have purchased they should want to look up and not down and so should Houghton.
 
Im not talking about Stoke or them being plucky or any of that nonsense.

Im saying they got promoted with a midtable Championship squad. It needs a lot of investment just to bring it up to a lower Pl level squad.

And even with that squad he has kept them up two seasons now, a remarkable achievement.

I can see he has tried to develop it further and add goals, and it would seem that hasnt worked (yet?), but I dont see that as a sacking offence.

Yes, ALL clubs should aspire to more - but right now Brighton have sacked off a safe pair of hands for wishful thinking.

Hardly a sensible move.

And, potentially in the "who do they think they are" realm - who do they think they will attract as manager (and then players) to really push them on?

I would suggest they are either looking at Pl journeymen like Pardew or rising talent from below. Either a much riskier option than sticking with Hughton IMHO.
 
This is the Premier League not the Bostik league, teams should and will have a clear plan, as simple as it stands, 15th and 40 points, whats next years plan, improve, reality got worse on more spend. Clubs won't accept that and rightly so.

You said they are in the same league as all of us, so they should rightly expect more, its the only way to move forward.

End of the day, fair sacking for me, worse team I saw this season
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I would suggest they are either looking at Pl journeymen like Pardew or rising talent from below. Either a much riskier option than sticking with Hughton IMHO.
Click to expand...

I would suggest thats purely based on your knowledge though not that of the football world where there are literally hundred of talented managers out there with forward thinking ways of management. I bet you would never have picked the manager for Wolves two years ago?
 
Grays_1890 said:
I would suggest thats purely based on your knowledge though not that of the football world where there are literally hundred of talented managers out there with forward thinking ways of management. I bet you would never have picked the manager for Wolves two years ago?
Click to expand...

Probably not (and Im impressed by him).

Wolves undertook a root and branch change with him and invested SIGNIFICANTLY to make it work, as well as making a deal with the devil.

Wolves are also a much more attractive club than Brighton, and historically more significant, so they have a degree of kudos to work with also.

Look at Brighton, who and what they are, what options are there out there?

If their squad really is as bad you say theyll need to replace those poor buys regardless. And its well established new managers, with new ideas will want new players to make it work. So they have to spend money whatever.

Who can they attract? Management and Player wise?

Let me guess, youll just respond with the "its not my job to know/there must be people out there" response, wont you?


I would suggest that yes, while there is talent out there, Brighton will struggle to bring it in.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back