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Milan 17,956 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 I am eagerly awaiting Paul Merson and Phil Thompson's rant over the new Wolves coach. cc @Jas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Vesper 30,172 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Blues Forever said: that sucks, I was hoping he would get hog tied up at Palace, a wreck of a club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blues Forever 1,232 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Nuno dodged a bullet there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 David Wagner steals another job somehow. West Brom fans better be excited to see them run a lot trying to gegenpress and play piss poor with the ball just like his team did at Huddersfield. Whoever takes the Palace job is effectively doomed regardless. Bar Eze, Zaha, Guita, Milivojevic, and a handful of others there isnt a great deal to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 The managerial merry-go-round is spinning so hard and fast right now ‘Look at this tea-timely email, they think my name is pronounced Lager. Still, I guess it’s better than Hatchet Man (the column that goes in hardest).’ Photograph: Jack Thomas/Wolves/Getty Images Scott Murray LAGE TOP The managerial succession at Wolverhampton Wanderers was dealt with in a very calm and measured fashion. Nuno Espírito Santo serenely announced his decision to move on. A backroom administrator gently scratched the nib of a fountain pen across a sheet of quality bond paper, carefully folding the request for a work permit for Bruno Lage then sealing it with wax. The request was delivered by hand to Her Majesty’s Government who issued the required permit, and now Mr Lage has been announced as the new manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers. The entire process was soundtracked by an instrumental version of The Girl From Ipanema, quietly piped through the Molineux PA system at volume setting three. Bruno Lage wants to do ‘great things’ at Wolves after being appointed manager Read more Compare and contrast to Goodison Park, where Napalm Death is screaming out of the speakers, which have all been turned up to 11. The chair in the manager’s office is spinning and all the curtains are flapping, a result of Carlo Ancelotti doing one at great speed the other week. Wow, look at that slightly out-of-condition $exagenarian go! Goodison is a study in tumult, everyone racing around pretending to know what’s going on and that there’s a coherent plan. Antonio Conte and Rafa Benítez having been briefly considered, the new favourite for the vacant managerial position is none other than Nuno Espírito Santo, who has just ended talks with Crystal Palace, and, well, he’s on the market so why not, it’s not as if we know what’s going on or there’s a coherent plan. Speaking of coherent plans, Tottenham Hotspur are still looking for someone to build on the promise of the Keith Burkinshaw era. That 37-year search may come to an end after the Euros, with news that former Everton boss Bobby M is now in the frame. He’d certainly be a good spiritual fit, on account of his commitment to progressive football, and the fact Belgium are The Fiver’s favourites to spectacularly underachieve this summer. Let’s hope Spurs, and indeed Everton, turn these rumours into hard fact soon, because quite frankly the desperation is unedifying. Also, the managerial merry-go-round is spinning so hard and so fast right now, we can barely, as this article amply illustrates, hear ourselves think. QUOTE OF THE DAY “So if you want me to be proactive now you can ask me: ‘How many trophies have you won in your career?’ And I’ll tell you 25 and a half. The half is the final that I didn’t play with Tottenham” – renowned winner of trophies José Mourinho redraws the lines of what constitutes success. José Mourinho: riding his way to half-glories. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images RECOMMENDED LISTENING Football Weekly’s Euro Not 2020 preview special is still here. RECOMMENDED BOOKING Speaking of which, a few tickets are still available for Football Weekly Live’s EN 2020 preview special on 10 June. FIVER LETTERS “I was listening to a bit on TalkSport about something or other to do with Luton Town. As always, the gushing advocate talked about the fantastic, amazing set of fans. Are there any other kind? Every club is apparently blessed with these fantastic, amazing fans. Just once I’d like to hear about a fairly crappy set of indifferent fans, who blow hot and cold dependent of the direction of a variable wind. Anyone know of any?” – Marten Allen. “To add to Phil Smith’s tenuous stretching of the new Euro pot (Fiver letters passim), may I venture to wonder if the competing teams will be drawn in ‘pots’? In other words, Tintin Tin-Pot pot pots?” – Rod de Lisle. “Surely new commercial partners will be sought for the competition – providing opportunities for companies so far underrepresented in football sponsorship eg dog food, and perhaps a well-known UK meal substitute (possible the same company), which would give us the Rin Tin Tin Tintin Tin-pot Pot-Noodle Pot” – Steve Malone. “It seems the only culture The Fiver knows is to be found in yoghurts at Big Website’s canteen. Contrarily to the assertion contained in Phil’s missive, Tintin is not a detective but a journalist! Shame on you!” – Roland Dehousse (and no other disgruntled Belgians). Send your letters to [email protected]. And you can always tweet The Fiver via @guardian_sport. Today’s winner of our prizeless letter o’the day is … Steve Malone. NEWS, BITS AND BOBS The six naughty €nglish $uper £eague rebels have agreed a settlement with the Premier League that will see them pay an expected £20m between them to grassroots causes. That’s really going to sting, eh? Uefa’s ticketing app triumphantly appears to let fans resell tickets on multiple occasions, opening the door to touting and possible crowd problems at Euro Not 2020. Harry Maguire’s ankle is still too knacked for him to take part in England training sessions. Meanwhile, fans attending the opening game against Croatia will be able to use a “vaccine passport” for the first time, Uefa suits have confirmed. Team GB will face Zambia in a Big Sports Day warm-up match in Stoke that 7,000 fans will be allowed to attend. “I’m delighted that we have secured a match on home soil which allows fans to watch us play before we depart for Tokyo,” cheered manager Hege Riise. Team GB pose in front of a Japanese-style pagoda in, um, Birmingham. Photograph: Naomi Baker/Getty Images for British Olympic Association Joey Barton’s trial over accusations he assaulted Daniel Stendel has been put back to November after video-link translation shenanigans. And Lazio have all but confirmed the appointment of Maurizio Sarri as their new boss by posting a ciggie emoji on Social Media Disgrace Twitter. Won’t somebody think of the children! STILL WANT MORE? Speaking of which … we’ve got a competition for younger readers of The Fiver. Barney Ronay offers his Euro Not 2020 scene-setter, at which football can still save the game from itself amid the greed and corporate circus Steve Clarke gets his exclusive chat on with Ewan Murray about his hopes for the Euros, escapades watching Scotland as a boy and shutting out the noise of the England rivalry. Strong background. Photograph: Gonzalo Arroyo/Uefa/Getty Images Get yer latest EN 2020 team guides: today, Spain and Sweden. Get yer latest EN 2020 player profiles: today, Rodri and Kristoffer Olsson. Fans from all 24 EN 2020 teams preview the tournament. Andy Brassell on how Portugal became a European superpower. This week’s Knowledge runs the rule over teams bouncing back from relegation to win Big Cups and Vases, quickfire red cards and more. Oh, and if it’s your thing … you can follow Big Website on Big Social FaceSpace. And INSTACHAT, TOO! THE KIND OF DIVING WE CAN ALL GET BEHIND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Paulo Fonseca in advanced talks with Spurs. Jesus he must of been what their 5th choice… Likes of Naglesmann, ten Hag, Pochettino and Conte all wanted/approached before him. Hope their managerial search keeps going for a few weeks yet. And the longer it does go on, the even more likely that Kane will leave them I think. Conte or Pochettino were probably the only 2 managers on that list who could encourage him to stay or at least have a higher chance. Even that big lump Mido that used to play for Spurs in 2004-7 is tweeting criticising Daniel Levy questioning him and saying he’s more interested in making money than bringing Spurs on another level. 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 17 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said: Paulo Fonseca in advanced talks with Spurs. Jesus he must of been what their 5th choice… Likes of Naglesmann, ten Hag, Pochettino and Conte all wanted/approached before him. Hope their managerial search keeps going for a few weeks yet. And the longer it does go on, the even more likely that Kane will leave them I think. Conte or Pochettino were probably the only 2 managers on that list who could encourage him to stay or at least have a higher chance. Even that big lump Mido that used to play for Spurs in 2004-7 is tweeting criticising Daniel Levy questioning him and saying he’s more interested in making money than bringing Spurs on another level. 🤣 Apparently Fonseca is the main choice of their new DoF Paratici. But overall, Levy has been one confused man in all of this. He said last month that he wanted a manager that plays attacking/entertaining football and uses players from the academy but then suddenly tried to get Conte, even though we all knew that it will never happen for obvious reasons. At least the other names sort of fit into that bill but whoever takes that job is gonna have a tough job on their hands. OneMoSalah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,394 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 What a losers . 😂 Basically they hired the manager who Mourinho replaced in Roma . DH1988 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 hace 24 minutos, milka dijo: What a losers. 😂 Basically they hired the manager who Mourinho replaced in Roma. I mean he’s not done anything particularly interesting in his career. Its not always a fair barometer of how good a manager he is but again underwhelming spells at Porto, bit better at Braga, good spell at Shakhtar then a meh spell at Roma. It looks very middle of the road. Its more the circus of how they’ve gone from looking at 2/3 top class options to scraping the barrel for someone, who’s just been replaced by the man they sacked also 😂. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,394 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) From Pochettino to Conte to Fonseca who ? 😄 Bye , bye Harry . obviously they not have the reputation to take a big name like Conte , Zidane Spuds things . Edited June 9, 2021 by milka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chippy 342 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 After failing to land Conte, Spuds should have taken a punt on Potter, a young, hungry manager with potential who might turn out to be as good as Poch was for them. Fonseca is about as uninspiring as they get, so sometimes I have to feel a little bit sorry for those long suffering fans who never get to see their team even win an egg cup.🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 7 hours ago, chippy said: After failing to land Conte, Spuds should have taken a punt on Potter, a young, hungry manager with potential who might turn out to be as good as Poch was for them. Fonseca is about as uninspiring as they get, so sometimes I have to feel a little bit sorry for those long suffering fans who never get to see their team even win an egg cup.🤣 TBF, Fonseca had a good reputation before he went to Roma. Not sure his reputation has really gone south after the stint at Roma but on paper at least, think he fits what Levy wants at Spurs. And given what Spurs can and can't afford financially, they were never going to attract a top class manager and they have always been a club who build up good teams but never have enough about them to go on and win titles. OneMoSalah and LAM09 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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R2D2 368 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said: Still angry about that FA final even after we won the CL, we got robbed. Edited June 10, 2021 by R2D2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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