The managerial merry-go-round

It also feels not too dissimilar to when we came straight back down in 1999 following that horror show season and BFR fiasco.

We were all suffering with delusions of adequacy and relevance and talking about (then) high profile high stock names like Hoodle and MON.

We ended up with a recently retired England midfielder whose managerial experience was a few less than stellar games leading Sampdoria from the stands.

We all tried to convince ourselves that it was an exciting progressive thinking marquee coup of an appointment.

He'd still be in the top half of our post-Frank managers.
That's be an ugly ranking game.

History seems to have treated him more kindly. The players of the time tend to talk highly of him.

Tricky did at the time as I recall.

I think his main problem was not winning the division at a canter at his first attempt.

Bournemouth sack Gary O’Neil.

Blimey.

Possible link to the story in the Other Club Football thread?

He’s only 40. Seems like that’s an older manager in the other story,

More likely it's just a case of "thanks for keeping us up, now we're executing our long term plan and you don't fit into it" from the new owner. Wonder if this will be Jesse Marsch's glorious return?

Bournemouth Echo says new manager will be announced later today. Hope it's someone shit, I wouldn't mind seeing Bournemouth relegated along with Brentford, Sheffield United and Wolves.

I like your thinking. Let’s relegate more than three and preferably teams we don’t like which admittedly is most of them.

We will be champions in no time. It worked for Manc citeh. (Premier league probably won’t relegate them for a mere 100 infractions).

The muff thing is a curiosity.

Glad to see others are way more basketcase than us.

Chicago: Management material.

Bournemouth, Brentford and Burnley would be the b-team into b-league dream.

Sounds like it's Iraola from Rayo Vallecano. Seems to be an up and coming young manager, Leeds tried to get him when they sacked Marsch.

Wow. Cheers, boss.

Bet they get Potter.

Edit: what do I know? Fuck all,

I think Potter is problematic. He did a magnificent job at Brighton because he was given time and support to do it. No Premier League club will do that as they'll want pretty immediate results, something he struggled to deliver at Chelsea with ridiculous resources at his disposal; a well resourced Champ club would be ideal but he probably doesn't want to drop to that level.

His ideal is probably a club like Forest or Leeds, clubs with the resources to let him build and realistic ambitions to be top half of the Prem. It's going to be very difficult to find one of those that will give him time to deliver though - Brighton really was a case of perfect club, perfect time, perfect circumstances. Maybe he'll go back there when De Zerbi gets poached by a top European club next season.