manc-mag 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Mort with zero football credentials to make the appointment btw. Career lawyer ffs. How many chairman know anything about football? The finer points of coaching? Which player a team needs? Chairman tend to be rich men who are good at business. Just like Mort. The toffs in charge of all the big clubs grew up playing rugger! Mort can go through a CV like anyone else and im sure hes got enough sense to not just sit in his office looking on wikipedia for the next manager. Im sure they have advisors and experts that are helping out. Point being it's his first appointment in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big TRon 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Just saw a previous interview of Sky's Spanish football corespondent who recommended an up and coming young manager (Deschamps) as an ideal candidate and reckoned Ashley might have been pointed in his direction. He seemed to rate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6822 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Nee offence but so what? Hes done a far more professional job than out last 'experienced' chairman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Nee offence but so what? Hes done a far more professional job than out last 'experienced' chairman. None taken but it's axiomatic what I'm saying. He's got no track record. The 'toffs in charge' of the other clubs (as you put it) might not be football coaches themselves but they've at least had a bit more grounding in the game. None of this is a comparison to Shepherd btw. I regard Shepherd as monumentally incompetent. Mort is merely yet to prove himself competent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Nee offence but so what? Hes done a far more professional job than out last 'experienced' chairman. Only time will tell. The timing of the sacking leaves a lot to be desired. Very much straight out of Shepherd's book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big TRon 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 (edited) Nee offence but so what? Hes done a far more professional job than out last 'experienced' chairman. Only time will tell. The timing of the sacking leaves a lot to be desired. Very much straight out of Shepherd's book. Hardly. Shepherd would sack a manager a few games in, fucking up an entire season. Mort is merely calling time on a season which died a month ago. Assuming we can stay out of the relegation mess, the rest of this season could prove a good springboard for the next campaign giving the new man time to take stock. Edited January 15, 2008 by Big TRon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 31 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Nee offence but so what? Hes done a far more professional job than out last 'experienced' chairman. Only time will tell. The timing of the sacking leaves a lot to be desired. Very much straight out of Shepherd's book. Hardly. Shepherd would sack a manager a few games in, fucking up an entire season. Mort is merely calling time on a season which died a month ago. Assuming we can stay out of the relegation mess, the rest of this season could prove a good springboard for the next campaign giving the new man time to take stock. Souness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I really don't know what to think. I don't follow continental football much so I have no idea how he lines his teams up. Why isn't he still at Juve out of interest? I'm intruiged as to how Mort came to see him as the answer seeing as how neither him or Ashley are footballing men? Hopefully it's a tip off from Wenger this time rather than that turd Kemsley. People above him forcing signings on him IIRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14000 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Deschamps for the Toon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Pretty much a 'come and get me' plea, if I ever saw one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 31 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 At least we know he's interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Pretty much a 'come and get me' plea, if I ever saw one. I'm expecting it to be denied tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 172 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Pretty much a 'come and get me' plea, if I ever saw one. Fuck come and get me !, go and get it Didier !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 There was really no need to get rid of Allardyce without a replacement lined up though, you can't get away from that. It weakens our position dreadfully. Even if inquiries were being made while Allardyce remained in charge then so what. He'd no doubt have got to know about it but it's hardly like he'd have chucked it all in and let us go down. That would've meant the end of his managerial career and that's the only thing that matters to BSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First direct quote from Deschamps... I have had no official approach from Newcastle but I am flattered to be linked with such speculation," Deschamps told The Daily Telegraph. "It would be an exciting challenge. Newcastle are a big club." Pretty much a 'come and get me' plea, if I ever saw one. I'm expecting it to be denied tomorrow. Just as Oliver puts the finishing touches to his "Deschamps to be unveiled as new Toon boss" article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 There was really no need to get rid of Allardyce without a replacement lined up though, you can't get away from that. It weakens our position dreadfully. Even if inquiries were being made while Allardyce remained in charge then so what. He'd no doubt have got to know about it but it's hardly like he'd have chucked it all in and let us go down. That would've meant the end of his managerial career and that's the only thing that matters to BSA. I think Redknapp was the replacement with Ashley and Mort expecting him to take the job. It's more of a case of there was no plan B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 There was really no need to get rid of Allardyce without a replacement lined up though, you can't get away from that. It weakens our position dreadfully. Even if inquiries were being made while Allardyce remained in charge then so what. He'd no doubt have got to know about it but it's hardly like he'd have chucked it all in and let us go down. That would've meant the end of his managerial career and that's the only thing that matters to BSA. I think Redknapp was the replacement with Ashley and Mort expecting him to take the job. It's more of a case of there was no plan B. Aye, I agree totally. Fucking naive in the extreme then to just let BSA walk off with 6 milion in his back pocket. "Fucking stay and sort it until we have a definite agreement from the man we want you fat cunt" Should have been the line. What was BSA gonna do like? Walk out at that point and risk his entire contract payout? And even if he did we'd have been no worse off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 31 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 At least it looks like for once our "Plan B" might be better than our first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 At least it looks like for once our "Plan B" might be better than our first one. Definitely, a complete blessing in disguise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 At least it looks like for once our "Plan B" might be better than our first one. Definitely, a complete blessing in disguise. True enough. Sheer accident like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 He's on his way, just seen Ken Dodd driving the taxi from the airport the Didi man commeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Seriously failing to get worked up by any of the names suggested so far. Do what I done. Come to terms with the fact that McLaren is out of work and had spoken to Ashley about the role. That they seem to be targeting free managers. Realise that McLaren could end up being the one. Suddenly, Deschamps & Houllier become very interesting prospects. I came to that very conclusion yesterday. the longer it goes on the more i will worry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Big TRon 0 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I really don't know what to think. I don't follow continental football much so I have no idea how he lines his teams up. Why isn't he still at Juve out of interest? I'm intruiged as to how Mort came to see him as the answer seeing as how neither him or Ashley are footballing men? Hopefully it's a tip off from Wenger this time rather than that turd Kemsley. People above him forcing signings on him IIRC Cheers. So he wasn't sacked then. This looks promising as someone has obviously put a word in for Deshcamps, probably Houllier as mentioned earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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