The Manager Sacked/Hired Thread 2014/15

[Paddingtonwolf]

Their fans will moan at Pulis ball next season. But they will be spending it in the top flight.

 

[Penk Wolf]

I give him a month before he falls out with Peace.

 

[Alan]

It'll be interesting to see what comes of Varela and Sessegnon in Pulis' system.

 

[Boozad]

Jammy bastards. I don't like Pulis but he's streets ahead of Mel and Irvine.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

I give him a month before he falls out with Peace.

Exactly, he walked out of Palace because of lack of funds and Peace will not fund anything in January.

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

Pardew on £2m a season? Jesus H

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/30/alan-pardew-crystal-palace-manager

 

[Del Woppio]

I gather pardew is the lowest paid manager in the league currently, on about £500k

 

[Lord Knows]

Chris Hughton has been confirmed as Brighton manager on a three and a half year deal. Fair contract that which says they are a club looking to retain someone for the long term. I think along with Blues they can climb the table. Leeds Rotherham and Millwall more likely relegation candidates.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Their fans will moan at Pulis ball next season. But they will be spending it in the top flight.

Doubt there will be many complaints if they're playing like Pulis' Palace rather than Stoke. Proved himself to be less of a dinosaur than everyone thought down there and Albion's squad doesn't really look like it's set for going back to his old ways.

 

[big mean bunny]

I really hope that West Brom stick to their principles and don't hire Pullis and change their once much lauded set up. Pullis is a short term idea, but one that goes against the amount of youth development and behind the scenes scouting that they do, hiring someone whose ideas are so drastically different to that would be a terribly short sighted decision. I notice that the press and the ex player base pundits are now all quickly sticking the boot into clubs who don't let managers (predominantly ex players, with little to no training in business, sports management, phycology, sports science) have control over who is bought.

Even in most sectors, the CEO, Director, Headmaster, Boss, doesn't have total say over personal decisions and recruitment.

 

[Stan Hullis]

About to be confirmed as their new head coach apparently.

 

[Tony Towner]

Pulis won't go to Albion. He won't take a Head Coach role, he's old school and would want full control and Peace won't change the structure to accommodate him.

Accurate as always

 

[andyc225]

The football he serves up is absolute dross but he'll keep them up, unfortunately. I was hoping for a dream team of Downing and Kelly.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

As Mark says his Palace team were decent to watch. It's just at Stoke he always had the fall back of going back to his mutants whenever things were getting sticky, hence the likes of Tuncay never getting a fair shot.

He's a very good organiser and pragmatist, if I were Peace though I would keep an eye on that transfer record at Stoke. He bought an unbelievable amount of shit, all dead money as well.

 

[Lord Knows]

Peter Taylor sacked by Gillingham, I guess he could do some scouting work for Wolves.

 

[Tony Towner]

A bit like Allardyce, you would expect Pulis to keep a half decent squad up. Albion have one of those, so I think this appointment will as good as guarantee their safety from now onwards.

Albion fans have a misguided view that their club should play pretty football, even though in the last 30 odd years they probably only played something like this for a year or two under Mowbray. Be interesting to see how it pans out with them in a couple of years if they are playing pragmatic football that gets the right results.

 

[Lupo]

Albion are keeping their structure but have promised Pulis full control over first team affairs and transfers in and out. Hmmmmm, we'll see. I can see Peace backtracking on that a bit once Pulis is in place and a row brewing

 

[Edgmond Wolf]

Bugger

 

[jd1981]

A bit like Allardyce, you would expect Pulis to keep a half decent squad up. Albion have one of those, so I think this appointment will as good as guarantee their safety from now onwards.

Albion fans have a misguided view that their club should play pretty football, even though in the last 30 odd years they probably only played something like this for a year or two under Mowbray. Be interesting to see how it pans out with them in a couple of years if they are playing pragmatic football that gets the right results.

I'd debate whether their squad is decent IMO it's of poor quality and players who should have moved on, I expect Albion to invest in a bit of width and pace in January.
I agree about the WBA fans midth about them having played great football, managers in the past 25 years have included Birkenshaw, Buckley, Smith, Megson, Robson, Irvine and now Pulis says it all.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

A spine of Foster-Lescott-Mulumbu-Berahino is decent for a lower mid-table team. The players around them let them down, players like Morrison, Brunt, Dorrans have gone stale, McAuley and Olsson were great for them for a few years but both past it now. Then there's awful random foreign dross like Gamboa, Davidson, Varela, Blanco, Ideye etc clogging up the squad.

I'd say they are no better or worse than Palace as it stands. They need points quickly as you have mentioned, will Pulis deliver them? Good chance he will but long term that squad needs gutting and the approach changing.