Ronald Koeman Sacked

[davek]

Yep and the fact is he was only really interested in signing a proven Premiership striker and the only one on his list appears to have been Giroud - clueless!

Irresponsible too. He wrecked this season. There is no getting away from that, even if he's trying to persuade all his Dutch audience that he was undermined. He wasn't. He just plain failed because he's an arrogant and clueless manager...as his CV underlines.

 

[Toffeelover]

Spot on mate and from what I've been told he wasn't the slightest bit arsed when we sacked him. Says it all really.

No he won't be, walking off with a multi million pound compo package.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Koemans tactics and attitude to setting up the team hadnt changed massively from last season. The difference was Lukaku being gone.

Not having a player in your team who can be relied on to regularly score goals is a massive issue and can easily cause morale to drop. Our squad with the exception of Lukaku is not weaker than the previous year.

If you look at just the Brighton and Burnley games, a goal scorer would have likely yielded another 4 points. That alone would have had us at least 11th, which is not a sackable position.

Disagree mate. I agree Lukaku is part of the problem but not THE problem. We were pretty bad in that 10 game spell last Autumn when Lukaku was playing in every game. And our away form has been ropey throughout 2017, mainly due to the negative tactics employed by Koeman. Lukaku played in more than half of those games. Plus our home form post Xmas last season was probably as much down to the form of Barkley as it was Lukaku. You could also include Coleman in that as our season fell away after he got injured. Davies and Schneids were also in top form and Baines was also a lot more influential.

There's no guarantee that somebody like Giroud would have made a difference, and even so the additional 4 points would only have papered over cracks. The performances against Arsenal, Burnley, Spurs, Chelsea, and even Bournemouth, were worse than anything I saw last season bar Chelsea away. It's not just the league form either. The football played in the 9 EL games so far has been awful, apart from 45 mins against Split (when he played with wingers I believe). Some of those ties were against teams Waterloo Dock would give a decent game.

No for me, blaming everything on not bringing in a top striker is taking the easy option. There has been so much more wrong with our football this season.

 

[jceverton]

Irresponsible too. He wrecked this season. There is no getting away from that, even if he's trying to persuade all his Dutch audience that he was undermined. He wasn't. He just plain failed because he's an arrogant and clueless manager...as his CV underlines.

Agreed and with what has happened since he was appointed and what was known about him previously what were the board thinking when they appointed him?!

 

[Goat]

Irresponsible too. He wrecked this season. There is no getting away from that, even if he's trying to persuade all his Dutch audience that he was undermined. He wasn't. He just plain failed because he's an arrogant and clueless manager...as his CV underlines.

Evening Toffee, the season wasnt ruined, he left while we were still in 4 comps.

The people who ruined our season are still in charge.

Not signing a Striker is negligence, im considering a class action lawsuit for emotional distress.

 

[maccavennie]

Evening Toffee, the season wasnt ruined, he left while we were still in 4 comps.

The people who ruined our season are still in charge.

Not signing a Striker is negligence, im considering a class action lawsuit for emotional distress.

Let me know how you get on with that lawsuit Goat because if you won there'll be a good few thousand following suit

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

What lost Koeman his job, we were utter turd, and the bellend was at the helm of that utter turdness.

 

[Goat]

Let me know how you get on with that lawsuit Goat because if you won there'll be a good few thousand following suit

Its a class action fam, that means im doing it for us all!

 

[Connor]

Its a class action fam, that means im doing it for us all!

Afternoon Toffee, get me in on this.

 

[COYBL25]

giroud would have got no service with Koemans wingless flops!

He'd have had to get on the end of an occasional aimless hoof though Joey, so at least he'd have had something to do every now and then.

 

[maccavennie]

Its a class action fam, that means im doing it for us all!

Your a good man Goat and I appreciate you doing it for us all, you are the forum version of Unsworth, fostering a togetherness not seen since we lost on penalties against West Ham in the FA cup 3rd round replay where we all raised a glass to Joel the losing hero

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I will say this in his defence

He didn't have Coleman, Barkley, Bolasie and Lukaku this season

Having all four of them missing was cataclysmic

Now granted, Lukaku was because he sold him, but if the other three hadn't been hurt I doubt we'd be having this conversation

Ross may not have liked him, but he would have still turned up if picked, as he showed last season

 

[riddick]

I said this before the season started, you can't just twiddle your thumbs and do the whole 'awwww shucks' routine in football waiting for a player to decide. There should have been players sorted to replace Giroud immediately when he said no. The idea of "you can't give a player of Giroud's importance a deadline" has left us where we are.

 

[Goat]

Afternoon Toffee, get me in on this.

Im on the phone to my brief here C.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Im on the phone to my brief here C.

The ghost of Rex Makin!