Mandaric Out ??????

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Whilst at present fans are continually calling for the head of Megson maybe the anger and frustration is being directed at the wrong bloke. Since MM has taken over we have not progressed on or off the pitch.

He sacked Kelly and replaced him with Worthington.

After 5 games realised Worthington was not the right man and replaced him with Allen.

Allen was sacked after 4.5 games.

Mandaric recruits Megson and after 6 games at least 50% of the fans would like to see him gone.

The truth many of us me included were blinded by the prospect of an experienced football money man taking over our club, hiring a big name manager and signing big name players who play sexy football all the way back to the prem ala Pompey.

What many of us failed to take into account was MM's horrific record of managerial appointments, lets face facts MM invariably hired unproven managers or fallen has beens who were happy of the opportunity, he got lucky when he appointed Redknapp and then he went and royally fcuked it up and when Arry left look how they nosedived, yet again due to Mandaric's poor judgement, only for MM to get lucky and attract Fishface back.

Granted his "investment" saved the club at the time but at least the previous board seemed to have some form of blue print and long term business plan especially under Levein, all we seem to have at present is a short term view and it clearly isn't working. In hindsight maybe it would have been more beneficial to have had somebody like Martin George involved who maybe carries less financial clout but who has more astute football admin acumen.

When Mandaric joined it was with a great deal of enthusiasm and optomism this is evaporating fast IMO. He seems as unwilling and unable to attract a quality manager as the previous board, all of Mandaric's appointments have IMO been names that the previous board could have attracted and no doubt afforded.

He has made several promises which have failed to materialise namely identifying and hiring the best available manager to take us forward, the evidence suggests otherwise, mainly on the whole plumping for the desperate and out of work cheap option or the lower league grateful for the opportunity to step up cheap option, hence we are sat in exactly the same type of position we have for the last 3 or 4 seasons, invariably less stable on the football side than we have ever been.

We appear to lack any long term plan / objective or realistic way of achieving it, I genuinely fear that MM's ego and use of spin and the media is deflecting the criticism from himself for the failings of the club. We have not progressed under Mandaric except for the fact that we have squandered substantial monies on more second rate players and managers since his arrival.

He has learnt the square root of feck all from any of his previous mistakes and it would seem that unless Arry is prepared to walk away from Pompey to manage us, which is highly unlikely, then we will continue to this cycle until eventually MM gets bored and flogs us on in what may well be a worse state than when he got us.

I have lost a lot of confidence in Mandaric and how he is running the club and I genuinely fear we are nothing more than the mad old farts little play thing, to allieviate the boredom of old age.

I will agree with you on one thing MM's record of selecting good managers is completely piss poor at both Portsmouth and LCFC.

The appointment therefore of HR I put down to a fluke and leaves us hoping for another fluke at some point over the next 2/3/4 seasons.
 
I agree.

Milan clearly belongs to the hit and miss management school - most of his decisions look wrong - but in the past he has come up with a winner.

I feel sorry for him - he throws money at his own ego and most of it (so far) has gone down the drain.

However, I am more worried about Milan walking away from the mess that his LCFC rather than hopeful of there being any better alternative. he desparately needs a decent manager (I'm afraid this does not inclde Megson) or director or whatever alongside him to mediate his judgements. At Pompey he was lucky to have Harry - and we shall find out now whether Mandaric without Harry can cut it.


That is pretty much what I have been trying to say, my fear is that Mandaric has no more idea of getting us back into the big time than the board he replaced and what kind of mess will be left in the aftermath.

The problem is it is becoming blatantly obvious that Mandaric cannot cut without Harry and his time at Pompey demonstrates that as well, I also believe that Mandaric's farcical handling of the Redknapp saga coupled with his dubious managerial record since taking over our club has meant that the calibre and ability of manager he can attract in the future is likely to get poorer and poorer. If Megson is potted as expected before the year is out then I only begin to wonder who the feck is going to be appointed next.

IMO Mandaric has lost a lot of standing and respect within the football world and I am seriously beginning to doubt whether he is the right man to lead our club.
 
This was all pointed out at the time. But he's here, now, and although this season looks like being a write-off, the future's not entirely bleak. Hopefully megson won't get us relegated and will stay long enough that some decent managers become interested again. And then MM has pledged to bang in another £3million next summer. So, if it's this shite this time next year, then that's the time to call MM out.
 
Even knowing what we know now or realising what we should have known - There was still no other option. Mandaric brought hope and although some of that has disappeared we are better off with him than without him.
 
Yes it was quite right that we all knew that the MM 'backseat' manager style was always going to limit the circle of managers he could attract.

I suppose what some of us hoped was that whilst a great manager could make average players great, the MON model, if you assembled a team of great players would they still need a great manager to stay great, the current Chelsea model?
 
Even knowing what we know now or realising what we should have known - There was still no other option. Mandaric brought hope and although some of that has disappeared we are better off with him than without him.

Spot on...

End of.
 
I was well ahead of the game on this one!
 
PFKAKTF FOX. Are you completly mad
Mandric may not be everyones cup of tea. but he is the only hope we have.
 
We have not had instant success but how often does that happen. Talk of 'milan out' is just ridiculous...

If he was not here we would be rooted to the bottom of the table right now!

Our total so far is poor but without the few decent players we have got we would be a lot worse.

Perspective people!!!

Two decent midfield players and a decent striker and we will be looking a lot better.
 
How can anyone criticise MM. MM has put money in the club and brought in 14 players. He puts his hands up to his mistakes.

The majority of us wanted Kelly out sooner then he was out; he replaced him with someone who has had experience in this division (Wortho), we stayed up last season. This season he hired MA who brought in over 14 players to the club then fired him after 3 months; MM put his hands up, saying he made a mistake. GM rightly or wrongly is our manager; if he doesn't bring us success he will be fired. MM is showing us fans he is willing to act, spend money and bring success to the Walkers Stadium, surely we should all get behind him rather then criticising him :102:
 
How can anyone criticise MM. MM has put money in the club and brought in 14 players. He puts his hands up to his mistakes.

The majority of us wanted Kelly out sooner then he was out; he replaced him with someone who has had experience in this division (Wortho), we stayed up last season. This season he hired MA who brought in over 14 players to the club then fired him after 3 months; MM put his hands up, saying he made a mistake. GM rightly or wrongly is our manager; if he doesn't bring us success he will be fired. MM is showing us fans he is willing to act, spend money and bring success to the Walkers Stadium, surely we should all get behind him rather then criticising him :102:

He may of put money in and spent a bit but at the end of the day if the money being spent is on the wrong thing then its a waste of time and money .

Im not saying MM is doing that but you start to think that way ,the big fcuk is he got his hopes up and ours and now its atart to bit him on this arse .

Belive me he is not happy the way things are going player wise ,by that i mean player at the club and trying to get players in but they are "working on it " :icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll

quote of the week

*we are working on it *
 
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He may of put money in and spent a bit but at the end of the day if the money being spent is on the wrong thing then its a waste of time and money .

Im not saying MM is doing that but you start to think that way ,the big fcuk is he got his hopes up and ours and now its atart to bit him on this arse .

Belive me he is not happy the way things are going player wise ,by that i mean player at the club and trying to get players in but they are "working on it " :icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll

quote of the week

*we are working on it *

Well surely no one is naive to believe many of the signings were MA2's choice - Campbell & Hayes yes, maybe a couple more, but the bulk of them he hadn't seen play

So there most be a combination of people at fault including Milan, Don Mackay & maybe even Lil Fucillo who had a scouting role.

Then there was mention of MA2's agent by Milan at the meeting last week, that baffles me.

Have to remember Pompey also used to have a massive squad & several signings never made a 1st team appearance, sounding familiar....
 
I don't buy the idea that there was/is no alternative to Mandaric.

The simple fact is, Mandaric wants to get us to the Prem and then sell us so he can make a profit. Fair enough. But in order for him to do that, it requires LCFC being bought by someone else.

Does anyone think Mandaric will be here forever? No. So, ultimately, someone else will buy him out. There has to be an alternative for MM's plan to work.

It amazes me that so many people think MM is the be all and end all of LCFC. He has, according to many, "saved" the club. Yes, we were in the shit. We had been for several years in fact. But had Mandaric not bought us, someone else would have done, sooner or later. The further down we went, the cheaper we'd have become. OK, true, we may have been in limbo for another few months, even a couple of years, but I don't believe for one minute that MM is "the saviour of LCFC". He's just the current owner.

With so many clubs being bought and sold lately, I don't think it would have been too hard to find a different owner. It will be more difficult now though, as MM wants a profit, so our "value" will be artificially higher.
 
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