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Today's Football 2014/15
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TheFinnFan
Finners
Smokey will get boot soon
Didn't get to see the game but Pellegrini is clearly a dead man walking. What's Jurgen Klopp's situation, surely the outstanding candidate now that Simeone has committed to Atletico?
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
Hands off Pardew though. Just saying like.
Kiwi
Say NO to Ginger Managers
Done well for you, been a real breath of fresh air looking in from the outside. Will the board back him?
Don't know mate, his stock is going up by the day. Wouldn't be surprised to see him headbutting from a Man City dugout next season.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Pardew couldn't handle the situation at a club looking to win things. Imagine that freak under the microscope 24/7 and having to deal with superstar players.
There'd be carnage. He'd be in and out in 4 months max.
He'll be on his arse by Christmas next season. He doesn't have the patience and concentration levels to sustain a club over the medium to long term.
There'd be carnage. He'd be in and out in 4 months max.
He'll be on his arse by Christmas next season. He doesn't have the patience and concentration levels to sustain a club over the medium to long term.
Dave, I really don't think anyone was seriously entertaining the idea that Pardew could go to City.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
No, I know. But he's flavour of the day it seems.
I think he's one of those managers that goes in and gets a team a big lift initially and then his style eventually rubs up players and fans the wrong way. People can forgive arrogance from a genius; they cant bear it from a mediocrity.
It has turned around for Pardew, because I think we all like Palace and hate Newcastle. It will fade as soon as he has his inevitable next episode of course, but I always had a bit of a soft spot for him. Did a good job at the Geordies, like.
On another note, I liked the way he dropped Newcastle like a hot soup instead of the other way around, and the grass didn't turn out to be greener. There's a lesson in there to be learned about loyalty to one's manager.
No matter how much I despise the obnoxious idiot, Pardew's performance and influence this season cannot be easily disregarded.
As Tony Bellow mentioned on Twitter yesterday evening, his management has arguably kept both Newcastle and Palace up this season.
To be fair, I do not think he's a particularly bad manager in a tactical sense, it's just his repulsive attitude that makes many people deplore him.
His relationship with the Geordies is hard to analyse, as they are themselves an egoistic and deluded lot in the mainstay.
If things turn sour at Palace, where he's relatively liked, then I think that will be more telling about his persona than the Toons hating him.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
pellegrini will get rightly sacked end of the season, surely? he fluked the league last season, they really should have run away with it given the standard of the opposition.
they didn't stand much of a chance this season imo because chelsea did brilliant business, but there's no way they should be scrapping with united for 4th.
they didn't stand much of a chance this season imo because chelsea did brilliant business, but there's no way they should be scrapping with united for 4th.
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
He is currently working with a sports psychologist to keep his general blertishness under control. He has always been a bit chippy. even after the semi against RS in 89 when he got the winner he was going round saying "I'm the best £5000 that this club has ever spent." Well the bogs at the top of the Holmesdale didn't have a roof so it's not like we threw our dough around in those days.
I don't mind him now he is with us and he does seem a bit more relaxed. It will go wrong eventually though. Pardew AND Palace. Two candidates for catastrophe separately let alone together.
Meanwhile? Who cares?
I don't mind him now he is with us and he does seem a bit more relaxed. It will go wrong eventually though. Pardew AND Palace. Two candidates for catastrophe separately let alone together.
Meanwhile? Who cares?
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
it's hard to work out if palace have a good team or had two great managers haha they looked hopeless and relegation fodder under holloway and warnock (granted they are both lower league managers) but you wouldn't say they have any players that scream quality - no offence alan.
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