I find it hard to disagree with
@davek mate. If allardyce approaches this job with the quick fix attitude of his previous jobs he will leave us worse off. Look at every team he's left, they've all been worse off. We actually need a real DoF with Sam in charge, someone who will buy smart and not leave us in a mess while Sam just does the football and training.
But he doesn't want a quick fix. We did. We offered him that and he said he wanted a longer contract.
Now the board have finally realised how utter garbage we are and gone back to him to name his terms.
People bang on about him leaving teams worse off.
The calibre of teams he has managed, is it surprising that when he has left, they eventually go down.
Blackburn, Sunderland, Newcastle and Bolton were all premier league teams when he left them. Their boards are responsibly for their relegation for not investing properly in there own teams, Venkys , Ellis Short, Mike Ashley, all stood by and watch their clubs implode,
Give the man a bit of credit, he has kept some right tripe clubs in the premier league.
This will be the biggest club he has ever managed, with the biggest cash backers he has ever had.
As i have said before, he is certainly not my first choice, but given our position at the moment, we cannot attract the calibre of manager we all want.