Window Cleaner

He was a great motivator of men in a very mixed race side. Captain dependable and a fantastic defender even if some of his tackles were straight red. I just can't see him getting pushed around and from what i read his management at Espanyol the cinderella club in Barcelona wasn't too bad until they had a financial crisis. Don't forget the Spanish government made football clubs pay or greatly reduce their debt levels last year. It would be like us under the Dutch duo, a lose lose situation..

not the impression he gave from sous entendus in his interview the other day.

other way round, Punch had a barney with Crosby at the start and it all derived from there. In the end NC stepped in and wiped the slate clean.

Apparently we won't be signing anyone else...or so it's said. We have a good squad, in fact if anything we need to get rid of some dead wood but who knows if it will still be dead wood with better coaching. No doubt the amount of instantly accumulated dead wood vis a vis the PL has been a concern to the Chairman. The casting aside of Lee and Mayuka must have really rankled with him and to be honest some of our rumoured transfer targets were laughable but then perhaps it was just agent talk. What we must not forget is that Punch who looks a really handy PL player was cast aside by NA and his sidekick Crosby and that proved a big mistake.

What better job ? He has no credentials to obtain a PL post with any of today's better teams. Villa perhaps but that's no better than Blackpool with the players they have. He had a fantastic squad with us and didn't use it very well sometimes.

There is nothing wrong with Pochettino as a manager as far as I'm concerned. Then again I had the pleasure of watching him for 3 seasons at PSG as a player..

We have seen that that isn't the case with QPR and Fulham. Small grounds big budgets.15000 STs brings in about 7 million £ after VAT, a drop in the ocean when compared to 40 million £ TV money, a guaranteed 18 million of which comes from Overseas TV rights. So in theory the match going fans aren't even as important as the foreign TV viewers income wise..

Just been reading through the announcement on the OS. Now I'd say from that that we are not integrating our youngsters into the first team in sufficient quantity and that is being held against Nigel. Shaw isn't enough perhaps, perhaps we aren't attracting sufficient quality to the academy to provide first team players and are having to buy too many in. I'd say coaching and development side of things is being called into question.

Probably now got one and we can move on with the next stage. Hope it works out

doesn't have the stature to manage Chelsea though.

would have seen the Chelsea game and as some pointed out last week there is a certain amount of consistency involved in our structure. Anyway our first team picks itself.

Voted yes because I doubt if it's been done lightly and there must be some reason that we don't know about. If it was on results it would have been after the Sunderland game or even before it when we had a break.

Depends what they have to spend. The ossature of our side was here pre-Adkins, Lambert,Fonte,Lallana,Schneiderlin. It would take a whole lot of money to get 4 players of that quality into a NPC side already. To get us out of the NPC in 1 go we spent another what 10 million ? So to get a side equivant to our NPC side you'd need about 30 million £ on today's prices with some pretty big pay packets to match. Blackpool have a few good players but it's not the SFC side that finished the NPC last season.

Adkins Top flight record; P22 W5 D7 L10

But we don't know why he's been suddenly sacked, it should have been done a while back, last break just before we got arsed on by Sunderland due to a shockingly bad goalkeeping selection. Something may have gone on in the background that we cannot possibly know about. Pochettino has been available for a couple of montrhs so why today. There's more to it than meets the eye I expect.

Well as this thread is anything but welcoming to the new man I suggest to the mods that we shut it down and start again when it's cooled off a bit.

Err since 1959 so that's what ? 53 years.

Jesus you're behaving like schoolgirls, it's shameful it really is. Still he won't read it so it doesn't matter.

It was always when and not if

Why does everything always have to be about Lambert, he's one of 16 or 17 first team players.

watch the xenophobia eh !!

Never been one to have my tongue in my pocket me, I post what I think. Gets me into all sorts of trouble but hey what can you do.

If you haven't heard of Pochettino it's because you're insular and not because he's not well known. Great player in his day. Hard man, he'll take less nonsense than NA in my opinion.

I wish

If he tightens up the defence a bit on Saturday and Sunday we might not be behind at half time and then go on to win. Defence was still a shambles at times on Wednesday. We had to deploy 4 midfielders very deep to get them out of hock on occasions.