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Evans to Betsy - managerial comings and goings 2022/23
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Originally posted by multipleman78 View PostGerrard just found out that the time he was allowed to build a team up here in Glasgow is not afforded down South.
I was quite excited when Gerrard joined Villa last year and thought it quite a coup. That we would be able to start attracting a better quality of player etc. However, he seemed to have his favourites - Coutinho, McGinn, Konsa for example, who appeared to be un-droppable. The decision to take the captaincy from Mings and how it was done was poor. And it should never have gone to McGinn. If you were going to take it from Mings, until last night, I would have said give it to Douglas Luiz.
In mitigation, Gerrad can plead the loss of his big summer signings early on. But there just hasn't been any consistency. I'd rather we were consistently bad than sometimes good and sometimes bad.
I didn't know that Beale was the brains of the operation. But ultimately, I haven't really seen any appreciable difference in our performances since he left.
Of the names being bandied about to replace him, the one I haven't seen is Sean Dyche. Thank god. Though that probably means he's a shoe-in...
I hate seeing my club like this.
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostWolves are now in talks with Nuno Espirito Santo to return as manager after being turned down by Julen Lopetegui.
And they have now announced that Steve Davies will remain in charge until the new year.
They have made a complete hash of this!
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Pochettino doesn't want the Villa job apparently.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 21-10-2022, 15:29.
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Originally posted by gt3 View PostI didn't know that Beale was the brains of the operation. But ultimately, I haven't really seen any appreciable difference in our performances since he left.
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I enjoyed this tweet earlier today
https://twitter.com/paul_c_watson/status/1583384643608645632?t=OgJlHIG59_KpuGutmKSH9Q&s=19
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Sometimes if you're a medium fish in a small pool (Gerrard at Rangers) it's better to stay that way than get exposed by the big fish in the EPL. I think he massively underestimated the gulf between the two jobs.
OTOH there seems to be trend for top half Championship clubs to recruit EPL failures for reasons I can't fathom so I won't be susrprised if he rocks up at the next 2nd tier underachievers (the new Steve Bruce in some respects).
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Originally posted by Hot Orange View PostIf you’re sacked at the end of an away game, how do you get home?
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Speaking of Manchester United, and per Lang Spoon and Satchmo's comments just up the page, I get the feeling the likes of Steve Bruce, Mark Hughes, Roy Keane and – more contemporaneously – Gary Neville are great exemplars of what could realistically happen with Gerrard now. Great players and legends at club level, but the old caveat that this counts for nothing when you attempt to move into managing (particularly at a 'big club') is in full effect again now with Gerrard.
With the greatest possible respect to the Scottish top flight, achieving success with an Old Firm club really gives very little indication of how someone is going to fare at a medium-to-large English top flight club where the competition is simply so much deeper. I mean, it would quite possibly be funny to see him try to follow in Klopp's footsteps at Anfield, but even allowing for sentiment he's got little more real chance of ending up there than Hughes or Bruce did of succeeding Ferguson at Old Trafford because the biggest clubs will only ever now contemplate the international superstar managers.
And then the next tier down is the couple of clubs like Villa (where's he's just tried and failed), Newcastle (now moneyed up enough to try to go 'elite'), and Everton (where he's surely never going to go). Yet for someone who had such a stellar time of things as a player and presumably harboured ambitions of repeating that as a manager, it's difficult to imagine him swallowing his pride and ego enough to join the merry-go-round shuttling around between The Likes Of™ Stoke, West Brom, Sunderland, Birmingham, Palace, Southampton, QPR, Sheffield Utd and Fulham, more or less for evermore.
So it's hard to see where on earth he ends up now. West Ham? Leeds? Short of going and trying his hand abroad, if a club the size of say Valencia takes a punt on him like they briefly did G Neville, there seems little opportunity for any vaguely 'glamour' moves that would appeal.
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