Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Mad isn’t it? Sacking a manager and having a plan what to do in the aftermath
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Sack race 22/23 season
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I wonder what that feels like
YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £50m
No coincidence
Sorry gary
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Turns out GON wasn’t the strangest sacking of the day.
Surprised at this, maybe Corberan going to Leeds and he coming home to The Baggies
GP_Monty
Player Valuation: £8m
Most of their fans wanted him gone after the playoff first leg and some of them gave him some racist abuse. I'm hoping 'mutual consent' means he's told them to get rodded.
Will Dance For Chocolate
Player Valuation: £50k
For all the negative comments, Lampard saved you the season before last but I bet you wish he'd have been let go last summer. Then, when you're into the season, you end up not knowing when the right time is to get rid of him and kept him in the job too long. Then you had to cast around trying to find someone willing to take on a sinking ship midseason and Dyche had to work with what he had, no preseason with the players and you ended up surviving by the skin of your teeth.
O'Neil did well to keep us up but as a rookie manager, he was learning on the job and making some bad mistakes. The Premier League is no place to do that. We were lucky to get away with it last season but I don't think we would have got lucky twice.
So the owner had a choice. Give him the £60m or whatever it is he's investing this summer to spend on players and know the chances are he'd be sacking the guy he let spend that money by Christmas or be ruthless with O'Neil and appoint the man he wanted in the first place. Iroala had been approached as his first choice when Parker left but said he didn't want to join a club midseason.
I understand the owner has completely set himself up to be disembowelled by the media if it fails, but the thought of another season watching O'Neil's football and the likelihood of relegation with him in charge makes it the right call in my opinion.
Anyway, if it fails badly it simply means we end up in the Championship which is a far more fun league to be in. Something none of you will know, but trust me when I say the Premier League is rubbish to watch in comparison when you have skin in the game.
Meanwhile, O'Neil has a nice payoff, a handy looking cv and the chance to learn the trade in the Championship as surely someone will offer him a job there. He leaves with thanks from AFCB fans rather than where it would have ended in a few months, with a similar opinion of you on Lampard.
O'Neil did well to keep us up but as a rookie manager, he was learning on the job and making some bad mistakes. The Premier League is no place to do that. We were lucky to get away with it last season but I don't think we would have got lucky twice.
So the owner had a choice. Give him the £60m or whatever it is he's investing this summer to spend on players and know the chances are he'd be sacking the guy he let spend that money by Christmas or be ruthless with O'Neil and appoint the man he wanted in the first place. Iroala had been approached as his first choice when Parker left but said he didn't want to join a club midseason.
I understand the owner has completely set himself up to be disembowelled by the media if it fails, but the thought of another season watching O'Neil's football and the likelihood of relegation with him in charge makes it the right call in my opinion.
Anyway, if it fails badly it simply means we end up in the Championship which is a far more fun league to be in. Something none of you will know, but trust me when I say the Premier League is rubbish to watch in comparison when you have skin in the game.
Meanwhile, O'Neil has a nice payoff, a handy looking cv and the chance to learn the trade in the Championship as surely someone will offer him a job there. He leaves with thanks from AFCB fans rather than where it would have ended in a few months, with a similar opinion of you on Lampard.
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