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Maybe that was why Marcus had to go. You can't really accommodate 2 bald people with strange goatees at the same club. They would have felt self-conscious
by Great Knolly » 19 May 2009 12:42
by West Stand Man » 19 May 2009 12:44
adamh4608
Are you another plastic fan
by swansea jack » 19 May 2009 12:50
Top Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
by I was there at Elm Park » 19 May 2009 13:07
swansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
by Plymouth_Royal » 19 May 2009 13:12
swansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
by Thaumagurist* » 19 May 2009 13:16
DeathyIan Royal
You could probably reasonably expect to see us fork out maybe £1m - £1.5m each on two players (of course this is dependent on us wanting players at that price and not finding what we want elsewhere, or refusing to pay over the odds if they aren't wort it). Or £2m - £2.5m on one player and a few bargains adding up to no more than about £750k
SERIOUSLY - You're in a world of your own mate!! Not a fecking chance we would spend money like that.
by IMAMATEOFJOVSKY » 19 May 2009 13:17
Plymouth_Royalswansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
those spanish kids have done really well from what i've seen and im pretty sure the were signed from former la liga teams and B teams. no need to call him a twit though!!
but saying that i still wouldnt want martinez. Martinez wouldnt know anything about the way we're run or our crop of youngsters. And from what i've read on the OS, madjeski is looking for a manager that would fit right in and use our younger players as well as have a budget for necessary players.
by winchester_royal » 19 May 2009 13:22
by swansea jack » 19 May 2009 13:44
Plymouth_Royalswansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
those spanish kids have done really well from what i've seen and im pretty sure the were signed from former la liga teams and B teams. no need to call him a twit though!!
but saying that i still wouldnt want martinez. Martinez wouldnt know anything about the way we're run or our crop of youngsters. And from what i've read on the OS, madjeski is looking for a manager that would fit right in and use our younger players as well as have a budget for necessary players.
by Sun Tzu » 19 May 2009 13:49
swansea jack As mentioned all over the board, there's only one person that fits that description who also comes with a glowing Portuguese reference.
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by loyalroyal4life » 19 May 2009 14:27
DeathyUke Hmmm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cambridge_utd/8055111.stmCambridge accept Brabin approach
Brabin guided Cambridge to the Blue Square Premier play-off final
Cambridge United chairman George Rolls has confirmed that the club have given manager Gary Brabin permission to enter talks with a Football League club.
The U's lost 2-0 to Torquay in Sunday's Blue Square Premier play-off final.
Rolls told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "We've had an approach from a club much higher than us. I felt it was right to give him permission to speak to them."
Brabin, a former Blackpool midfielder, has been linked with the vacant manager's post at Bloomfield Road.
Brabin has enjoyed a hugely impressive first season at the Abbey following his arrival from Southport last summer.
"Hopefully Gary will show some loyalty to us. We gave him a job when he'd only been in football for five or six games," he said.
"We gave him a huge budget last year, more money than Jimmy Quinn the year before. I just hope he stays around and tries to build again for next year."
Brabin spent big on his way to guiding the U's to the play-off final for the second successive season.
Scott Rendell, Lee Phillips, Andy Parkinson and Phil Bolland are just some of the big names players to have arrived at the club over the past year.
"We've got to run the club as a business and become solvent, we can't have people putting their hands in their pockets every five minutes to bail us out.
"We've got to act as a business and act sensibly. There will be cuts, but we can still push for the play-offs again."
Rolls could not confirm whether or not Brabin would take assistant player-manager Paul Carden with him should he decide to move on, but expects the situation to be resolved within the next few days.
Manager on the cheap, the traditional Reading way? Perhaps Rendell filled him in on our setup?
Or Ferguson on his way from Posh, Babin to take over at Posh?
Blackpool perhaps.
by Top Flight » 19 May 2009 14:50
swansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
by Im Spartacus » 19 May 2009 16:18
Top Flight
I'd also be happy with a return for Pardew.
Top Flight
McGhee wouldn't be bad either.
by holsgrove breaks a leg » 19 May 2009 16:19
Top Flightswansea jackTop Flight I wouldn't be upset if Boothroyd joined as he is a good tactician. But I'm not sure I want his style of football.
McGhee wouldn't be bad either and Martinez could also be a possibility, although with Martinez I'm worried that he might go and sign crap Segunda and Tercera division players out of Spain who he thinks can play in the English Premier League and soon find out that they are not good enough for the Championship either.
I hope all Martinez's Spanish signings are as bad as Rangel, Gomez & Bauza. While were at it, I hope all his signings are as bad as the Spanish kids, Bodde, Gower et al who were signed for the princely sum of virtually bugger all but were part of the team that completely tore your ex-Premiership posers apart at home. I'm more than happy for you to stay 'worried' and leave Martinez alone.
Twit.
Well those great players that you are talking about only managed to get you an 8th placed finish. Thats not much use if you are gunning for promotion.
This coming season is a critical season in Martinez career really. If we took him now as our manager its a massive gamble because he hasn't yet proven that he can achieve anything useful yet.
If he is able to progress Swansea again this year and move them into the play-offs then thats more proof that he may be a good manager.
by Thaumagurist* » 19 May 2009 16:35
Im SpartacusTop Flight
I'd also be happy with a return for Pardew.Top Flight
McGhee wouldn't be bad either.
Bloody hell you're a forgive and forget type aren't you. I wouldn't want either of those treacherous b@stards anywhere near our club.
Not that I hold a grudge or anything
by Darren Caskey's Dietician » 19 May 2009 17:16
by Millsy » 19 May 2009 17:20
DeathyIan Royal
You could probably reasonably expect to see us fork out maybe £1m - £1.5m each on two players (of course this is dependent on us wanting players at that price and not finding what we want elsewhere, or refusing to pay over the odds if they aren't wort it). Or £2m - £2.5m on one player and a few bargains adding up to no more than about £750k
SERIOUSLY - You're in a world of your own mate!! Not a fecking chance we would spend money like that.
by Millsy » 19 May 2009 17:26
Royal RotherStill it means Coppell's supposed millions are still there ready to be used.
No, it really doesn't, honestly.
The world was in a different economic position when he didn't spend the money you believe was available, as was the club. Things are different now and whatever surplus funds you believe were never spent will just be used as part of the overall budgeting process for 2009/10 onwards - there isn't a chance in hell that the board will say to the new manager, "Steve didn't spend £10m of what I would have given him in the last 2 seasons, so you've got that for starters.".
by Millsy » 19 May 2009 17:29
Ideal Just praise your lucky stars we are not owned by an icelandic company..like West Ham.. who are now being taken over by some mysterious banking entity, who will no doubt be seriously reluctant to spend any money, and will not accept any yearly deficits.
by Thaumagurist* » 19 May 2009 17:35
Darren Caskey's Dietician So, I bumped into Pardew (I say bumped into, what I mean is saw him in Woking, and walked over) and outright asked if he has been contacted. His answer was simply "I wouldn't go back, and the chairman wouldn't take me back. It was a great time at Reading, and I enjoy going back from time to time, but I will never return in a working capacity". I asked about Rodgers, and he said he could see Rodgers at Reading, but wouldn't be pushed on if he knew anything more.
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