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| Managers Thread; Spain sack Lopetegui. Yes, really. | |
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| Ricky Spanish | 17 Nov 2017, 07:45 AM Post #5861 |
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Michael O’Neil is a bit of a feniany name for sevco fans to take to. |
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| nails | 17 Nov 2017, 08:19 AM Post #5862 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Frank De Boer is the latest to be linked to see hun
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| Marado | 17 Nov 2017, 08:48 AM Post #5863 |
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I'll give you a war you won't believe.
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I’m not convinced O’Neil is a great manager tbh. I think the stars have aligned for him slightly and he’s hot property just now. He should make hay while the sun shines and take the US job cos managers in particular can experience a rapid fall from grace. Owen Coyle was being offered the Celtic job and being linked with various premiership teams not that long ago. |
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| JamesM | 17 Nov 2017, 09:55 AM Post #5864 |
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USA isn't on offer (for now). The presidency of their federation is up for election in February and they won't appoint a manager before then. https://twitter.com/GrantWahl/status/930052571380797440 Come to think of it, this probably explains why the SFA are in such a hurry (unusually for them). Edited by JamesM, 17 Nov 2017, 10:51 AM.
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| fatboab | 17 Nov 2017, 10:30 AM Post #5865 |
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this. In a nutshell. You have hundreds of examples of managers/players who just clicked, and whose fall from grace was as alarming as their rise was spectacular. See Moyes, Lennon, etc etc. If the USA is a serious offer, he should be booking a taxi to the airport already. |
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| BardseyCelt | 17 Nov 2017, 11:16 AM Post #5866 |
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Pretty much agree. His success with NI has been built on being really hard to beat and well organised. They have one excellent centre half in Evans, and a few decent defenders apart from that. Scotland has Tierney. That's it. I'm not convinced he will see the same success with us. He's a better option than Malky, Lambert, McLeish etc mind you. |
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| The Gorbals Urchin | 17 Nov 2017, 11:19 AM Post #5867 |
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Bit harsh on Lennon Bolton where in total melt down during his stint ,I'm sure he paid the cleaners and such himself |
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| fatboab | 17 Nov 2017, 11:20 AM Post #5868 |
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I meant more the fact that Bolton were his option. He thought he'd get much better.
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| The Gorbals Urchin | 17 Nov 2017, 11:25 AM Post #5869 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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| Govan Super Casino | 17 Nov 2017, 11:37 AM Post #5870 |
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He rushed into it because he wanted to get back in the game, I think if he'd waited he would have got a better offer. Bolton were about to crumble. If not O'Neill for Scotland then who? It's a pretty uninspiring list of potential managers. |
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| hazy | 17 Nov 2017, 12:25 PM Post #5871 |
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Getting on a bit
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I’d uproot my family to Somalia for £2.5m a year |
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| Forza | 17 Nov 2017, 12:37 PM Post #5872 |
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Considering retirement
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Plenty in favour of taking the US national team manager job, which is understandable on salary and quality of life grounds. Great opportunity. I don't think it would stop me being totally bored and detached from it though, in all honesty. If criss crossing the States and Canada watching MLS games every week is your thing, then great. Great way to see a good part of the world. However it's the same qualification teams over and over again (Mexico last time, Mexico this time), the same Gold Cup tourney (Mexico this time, Mexico last time). It's also about inheriting a pretty lacklustre US squad that now has the expectation of reaching a World Cup, when clearly there are major issues to be resolved. The Scotland job can be as thankless a task, but if you live and breath football as I suspect Michael O'Neill does, I reckon there is quite a pull in being involved in football where the sport actually seems to matter a bit more. Nevertheless, if he goes and makes a decent fist of the US, he could maybe cut out a bit of a niche for himself as an international manager gun for hire. The Bora Milutinovic of the 21st century. |
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| Ned Rise | 17 Nov 2017, 12:45 PM Post #5873 |
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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Reads like a veritable why's why of football management. |
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| LeedsTim | 17 Nov 2017, 12:51 PM Post #5874 |
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Italy, Spain, Argentina, basically anyone but England.
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I have no enthusiasm at all for this guy taking over Scotland. Surely we should be aiming higher than him. |
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| popeyed | 17 Nov 2017, 12:54 PM Post #5875 |
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Climbing walls while sittin' in a chair.
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That's the level we're at. 10k a week is hee haw these days. Need to start paying Chinese money to get a top coach in at international level. |
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| Ned Rise | 17 Nov 2017, 01:00 PM Post #5876 |
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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I don't think he'll be forced to deny he was offered the gig at Ibrox because he was a Catholic, anyway. I know things have changed over there beyond anything Aldous Huxley could have predicted, but I doubt I'll ever hear the words "I'm not here to say Mass" coming out the mouth of their new Irish boss. |
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| 15not25 | 17 Nov 2017, 01:09 PM Post #5877 |
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| PaulieWalnuts67 | 17 Nov 2017, 02:17 PM Post #5878 |
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Getting on a bit
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In no way did Sherwood do well at Spurs. |
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| Dannybhoy95 | 17 Nov 2017, 03:05 PM Post #5879 |
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Champions Again Olé, Olé
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I agree. In his two qualifying campaigns he's had piss easy groups. The Euro's had Greece, Faroe Islands, Finland, Hungary and Romania. And the WC group was San Marino, Azerbaijan, Czech Rep, Norway and Germany. Meanwhile Scotland have had total carrots of groups. Germany, Poland, ROI and ourselves for 3 places. Then we got scudded with England, Slovenia and Slovakia battling it out for 2 places. On the face of it, sure, NI qualifying is an achievement. But you scratch the surface and look what he's working with. A 'back 6' of McGovern, McAuley, Evans, Brunt, Davies and Hughes. Hughes aside, that's easily a mid-table Premier League defence. |
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| van Doesburg | 17 Nov 2017, 03:28 PM Post #5880 |
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Ricki Fulton, "Glasgow Rangers' Groundbreaking Signing" |
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