Gordinho
Banned
If AVB were to move on I'd positively welcome a Tony Pulis/Charlie Adam management dream team. :^)
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O/T Manager Sack Watch
- Thread starter Jordinho
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If AVB were to move on I'd positively welcome a Tony Pulis/Charlie Adam management dream team. :^)
charlietheyid
Banned
Saudi Sportswashing Machine's Alan Pardew will become the second longest-serving manager at a Premier League club - a mere two and a half years after taking charge.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
aren't wasps looking for a new coach?
Me too. Maybe we can get in Martin Keown as an adviser.
Straight out of the Redknapp/Allardyce school of management: Spend high on aging, average footballers with little to no re-sale value. Complement with freebies on even higher wages.
Second part is the more interesting, purchase price is a useless stat, as is net spend.
Time and time again the Scum scenario highlights that, they never are in the top 4 or 5 "spenders" but their wage bill is consistently in top 2 or 3.
Superted
Jonathan Woodgate
Scum's net spend is always out of whack as they got stupid prices for players like Anelka, Overmars, Petit. I'm sure I'm missing a few others. Our net spend wouldn't look too bad if we got fair value for C*ntbell.
Lost Mango
Pascal Chimbonda
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Based on a quick google and looks at some swissramble and guardian graphs their wage to turnover seems to be around 70%. Not quite as good as ours, but not terrible either. Probably sensible for a club their size.
The point about re-sale value is a good one though. I think I'm right in saying that Begovic is likely to be their first player to move to a "top club" since Pulis took over. We've seen clubs that have spent considerably less on transfers produce much better and much more coveted players. Just look at Wigan and Swansea for example. Considering how much money Pulis has been allowed to spend on bringing in players that's pretty awful.
Net spend isn't completely useless, it must be seen in context of course though.
It does seem like their owners have injected a considerable amount of money into the club for them to be able to sign players like Kenwyne Jones, Peter Crouch, Wilson Palacios etc.
Robbo
Paul Walsh
That's incredible. Imagine if Arse get rid of Wenger (not highly unlikely?) and Saudi Sportswashing Machine sack Pardew (pretty likely), then the longest serving PL manager will have just two seasons in charge of his club. Wow.
Lily White
Clive Wilson
Stoke have contacted mark Hughes about taking over as manager. That should relegate them next season \o/
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
I really hoped next season would be another tough one for them, skirt with relegation, maybe even go down.. if they get Hughes then I'm laying money that they do.
I think he's ok:
Blackburn - did well; was highly regarded
Man C - did well; weren't they 4th when he was fired and then they finished 5th?
Fulham - think he got them to 9th and left after 1 season as realistically that's about as high as they will ever finish
QPR - kept them up in first season; then admittedly spent a lot of cash of players past their sell-by date
I think he's far from useless