Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

[Yiddo]

I think they will give him a couple more games while they are sorting out another manager then he will get sacked.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I think they will give him a couple more games while they are sorting out another manager then he will get sacked.

Thursday could be a very big game for our chances of being in Europe next season. I think Mason has more chance of getting a result than Santo at this point in time

 

[elyid]

He speaks Spanish and French, which covers all our starting players bar Skipp, Son and Kane.

For me Gallardo looks the next super manager in the making. Potter I'm a big fan of, but Gallardo could be the best in the world for this coming decade. A Poch++

Also Gallardo is available now (out of contract at the end of the Argentinian season in a few week). Potter won't leave Brighton mid-season I'm fairly sure; he seems an honourable guy.

Yeah I would also be very happy with Gallardo & noticed the Argentinian season finishes 12th Dec (I think).

He seems quite a passionate guy, and we def need someone who really cares about the role (and won't take brick from the players).

 

[Baleforce]

If Levy were leading an organisation in any other walk of life he’d be gone, given his incredibly poor decision making over the last three or four years.

Or he’d be killing it, as the competition wouldn’t be able to cheat the way they can in football.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Remove the toxicity for whom, though? The first game under Mason, Winks will start, and Alli will start - for Ndombele and Lo Celso, both will be galling, since they are both players without talent or skill right now, who will only be starting because they're Mason's mates.

It will bring the fans a bit of peace for a couple of weeks as the football improves, but the dressing room might not react as positively.

I think that's unfair. We know Ndombele was having Ramadan-related issues at that time. Mason also actually played Lo Celso over Alli in the cup final.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Yeah I would also be very happy with Gallardo & noticed the Argentinian season finishes 12th Dec (I think).

He seems quite a passionate guy, and we def need someone who really cares about the role (and won't take brick from the players).

Seems a sense in Argentina that he's definitely off (to Europe) then too: https://www.espn.com/soccer/argenti...to-give-marcelo-gallardo-the-perfect-send-off

 

[AdamB]

Thursday could be a very big game for our chances of being in Europe next season. I think Mason has more chance of getting a result than Santo at this point in time

Or Cathro? Will be interesting to see whether he gets fired with Nuno, or whehter we find another role for him. Difficult to tell from the outside how he's perceived

 

[Gazza]

I think that's unfair. We know Ndombele was having Ramadan-related issues at that time. Mason also actually played Lo Celso over Alli in the cup final.

Ramadan come around all the time so it's not anything new for a football player to adapt to ... especially a professional one of that being paid north of £200k a week

 

[DeanoAustin]

I think that's unfair. We know Ndombele was having Ramadan-related issues at that time. Mason also actually played Lo Celso over Alli in the cup final.

There's a narrative around Mason too that I think is unfair - i.e. that he plays his mates. Ndombele played the first game under him and put in one of the worst displays I've seen in recent memory. Not just in brickness but he didn't try a leg v Southampton. He was rightly dropped for the final. Like you say, Mason played GLC over Alli which gets forgotten about.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Ramadan come around all the time so it's not anything new for a football player to adapt to ... especially a professional one of that being paid north of £200k a week

But if it has caused his fitness to drop 20% because he's not managed it as well as most players do these days, that affects team selection. We know Mourinho wasn't exactly a diet and fitness kind of coach, which was the situation Mason inherited

 

[DubaiSpur]

I think that's unfair. We know Ndombele was having Ramadan-related issues at that time. Mason also actually played Lo Celso over Alli in the cup final.

Actually, you're entirely right. My apologies, I didn't actually verify that.

Fair enough, he might give the players a lift.

Ramadan come around all the time so it's not anything new for a football player to adapt to ... especially a professional one of that being paid north of £200k a week

True, but I think @Gutter Boy 's point is that Tubby's characteristic inability to take care of himself meant Mason had to drop him. Which is fair.

 

[Dicko]

So no insiders tweeted any update yet?

 

[paxtonwolf]

So no insiders tweeted any update yet?

Thought he had been sacked about 2 hours ago ...according to sources

 

[Yiddo]

So no insiders tweeted any update yet?

Loads of people on twitter saying he has gone via mutual consent but its all gonads as usual.

 

[Mcfee]

If Nuno does go, Levy and Paratici should hold their hands up. They appointed a defensive manager and asked him to play attacking football with a squad that only has 2 players capable of putting the ball in the net regularly.

It actually baffles me the football side of the club.

Yes, to spend nearly 3 months and come up with Nuno when there was an opportunity to revolutionize the whole footballing structure looked like a complete cop out.

 

[Jurgen the German]

I think that's unfair. We know Ndombele was having Ramadan-related issues at that time. Mason also actually played Lo Celso over Alli in the cup final.

Whoever the next manager is, Alli and Winks should be two of the first names to be out of the door. Mason coming in (even temporarily) probably means those two get more game time which is the opposite of what we need now.

 

[Jurgen the German]

Or he’d be killing it, as the competition wouldn’t be able to cheat the way they can in football.

He definitely hasn’t been killing it in the last 5 years. Not backing Poch, bringing in Jose, sacking Jose the week before a cup final, taking circa 2-3 months to replace him, appointing Nuno. It’s a catalogue of errors which would get a manager sacked.

 

[AdamB]

Whoever the next manager is, Alli and Winks should be two of the first names to be out of the door. Mason coming in (even temporarily) probably means those two get more game time which is the opposite of what we need now.

Yes, I was thinking the same earlier. In theory, the DoF structure should mean that a change of manager doesnt change those sort of decisions

 

[StephenH]

Yes, I was thinking the same earlier. In theory, the DoF structure should mean that a change of manager doesnt change those sort of decisions

There is little point in getting rid of any players before the new manager has spent time with them

 

[Hashegotthesackyet?]

He definitely hasn’t been killing it in the last 5 years. Not backing Poch, bringing in Jose, sacking Jose the week before a cup final, taking circa 2-3 months to replace him, appointing Nuno. It’s a catalogue of errors which would get a manager sacked.

Levy/Para may as well be scouting the replacement for Nuno’s replacement.