Taxi for Sousa

[Dour]

Don't forget we all have to be so appreciative of what MM has done here, you know things like, raising our position in the league, buying the stadium, reducing debt, reducing the outlay on agents etc. :icon_wink

Proud.

 

[Graz]

Paulo Sousa's future as manager of Leicester is in the balance following Tuesday's 4-3 defeat by Norwich, with the Foxes still rooted to the bottom of the Championship.
Full story: the Times (subscription)

From BBC Gossip page.

 

[teblin]

Swansea fan put this on FT:

http://forum.planetswans.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=84601

Don't know how true it is but it is an interesting read.

 

[Leesoh]

In other news, the BBC is reporting that bears use woods as toilets.

 

[escos66]

More breaking news from the times:
Judith Chalmers has got a passport!

 

[spionfox]

Swansea fan put this on FT:

http://forum.planetswans.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=84601

Don't know how true it is but it is an interesting read.

One of the replies was as follows:

*****


Very disturbing. No wonder 2 Leicester players are virtually on strike

How can they tell?
*****

Well it made me laugh.

 

[camberwell fox]

What do you mean 'how we have just treated NP'? Regardless of what happened, the only person who decided to leave LCFC and join Hull is NP himself.

Are you being serious?

You mean to suggest that NP after a successful season here was approached by Hull (those giants of the English league) to take over there and just decided to up sticks and leave even if the money MAY have been slightly better?

Hull FFS, he was pushed, i have no doubt in my mind whatsoever.

 

[Filthy Rich]

You mean to suggest that NP after a successful season here was approached by Hull (those giants of the English league) to take over there and just decided to up sticks and leave even if the money MAY have been slightly better?

Yes.

 

[camberwell fox]

Yes.

Then why do you think that?

 

[Redditch Fox]

Its diffficult to credit that NP would have found Hull to be an attractive proposition unless he was being pushed out of the door by Leicester.

He obviously thought he needed to be out - and out quickly. Otherwise, he would have waited for a better opportunity.

As for Sousa this was Milan at his worst. He tends to make poo0r manager appointments - and he obviously bought into to do a deal with the new owners or for whatever reasons including simple bad judgement - the idea of a trendy manager playing fancy football.

Result as per usual - disaster.

We've got serious problems but Sousa is a major part of the problem not part of any difficult set of solutions.

 

[kanefire166]

Many are comparing SOUSA`s start to O`NEILLS

Here is the math

O`NEILLS first games

23.12.1995 Grimsby Town away D2-2 3 37
01.01.1996 Millwall away D1-1 3 38
13.01.1996 Stoke City away L0-1 5 38
21.01.1996 Sunderland home D0-0 5 39
03.02.1996 Luton Town home D1-1 7 40
10.02.1996 Portsmouth away L1-2 10 40
17.02.1996 Port Vale home D1-1 8 41
21.02.1996 Wolves away W3-2 6 44
24.02.1996 Reading away D1-1 6 45


THATS 8 POINTS FROM 9 GAMES TAKING US FROM 3RD TO 8TH IN THE TABLE

SOUSA`S FIRST 9 GAMES

07.08.2010 Crystal Palace away L2-3 14 0
14.08.2010 Middlesbrough home D0-0 16 1
21.08.2010 Burnley away L0-3 24 1
28.08.2010 Reading home L1-2 23 1
11.09.2010 Coventry City away D1-1 23 2
14.09.2010 Cardiff City home W2-1 20 5
18.09.2010 Qpr home L0-2 22 5
24.09.2010 Portsmouth away L1-6 23 5
28.09.2010 Norwich City away L3-4 24 5

THATS 5 POINTS FROM 9 GAMES TAKING US TO 24TH IN THE TABLE

The teams they inherited were both very good but SOUSA is still behind in the points table and 16 places worse off.

I`m all for giving the man a chance but now look at his last 10 results for Swansea

13.03.2010 Sheffield Wednesday home D0-0 4 60
16.03.2010 West Bromwich Albion home L0-2 5 60
20.03.2010 Queens Park Rangers away D1-1 4 61
23.03.2010 Blackpool away L1-5 5 61
27.03.2010 Ipswich Town home D0-0 5 62
03.04.2010 Cardiff City away L1-2 5 62
05.04.2010 S****horpe United home W3-0 5 65
10.04.2010 Bristol City away L0-1 6 65
17.04.2010 Barnsley home W3-1 6 68
24.04.2010 Sheffield United away L0-2 7 68
02.05.2010 Doncaster Rovers home D0-0 7 69

So in the last 19 league games as a manager he has taken 14 points lost 11 and kept 5 clean sheets!!

SORRY GUYS BUT I`M STARTING TO PANIC!!!!

 

[homer]

Many are comparing SOUSA`s start to O`NEILLS

Are they

 

[Spanky Fox]

Are they

Homey,

It's just a copy and paste from FT, of course he didn't do it properly as no one here is comparing the two :icon_lol:

 

[David Gwilliam]

The problem with bringing in a new manager is that they can take a number of games to assess the players - this was one of Holloway's problems. Meanwhile the club is in upheaval and players are working out whether or not they respect the new boss.

The last time we needed to change a manager at this time of the season Gary Megson was appointed. This was best described at the time as "underwhelming” and the result was a disaster. All the names mentioned Coleman (perhaps the least bad), Southgate, Robson, Dowie carry baggage and are underwhelming.

The problem with not bringing in a new manager is that the Sousa problem gets worse. Every sensible fan knows not sacking Sousa is postponing the inevitable and I would guess the players know it too.

If you pose a problem you should come up with an answer and mine is Chris Powell. My guess is that to appoint Chris Powell as manager would raise spirits in the dressing room and give us a manager who knew what he was doing.

 

[homer]

Homey,

It's just a copy and paste from FT, of course he didn't do it properly as no one here is comparing the two :icon_lol:

Thank god for that - I thought I'd entered a twilight zone where we had all been vigorously debating the comparison between O'Neill and Sousa endlessly - with all sorts of arguments taking place that required a clear set of stats to prove the point once and for all


The whole world has gone mental. FACT

 

[Boy Genius]

My guess is that to appoint Chris Powell as manager would raise spirits in the dressing room and give us a manager who knew what he was doing.

Like we did with Rob Kelly?

 

[spionfox]

My guess is that to appoint Chris Powell as manager would raise spirits in the dressing room and give us a manager who knew what he was doing.

You are making two mighty big assumptions.

 

[Redditch Fox]

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If you pose a problem you should come up with an answer and mine is Chris Powell. My guess is that to appoint Chris Powell as manager would raise spirits in the dressing room and give us a manager who knew what he was doing.

I'm not aware of any evidence that Chris Powell would make a decent manager. He might be a succcess but he might be just another blind alley. However, there is more than sufficient evidence that Sousa is hopeless and Powell could be at least a stop gap whilst the situation is sorted. At any rate Powell is a reasonable short term option allowing us to get rid of Sousa now, then win the next home game and proceed from a better basis. Hopefully, Milan could see this change as the right moment to acknowledge that he is part of the problem - and move back to Pompey where he demonstrably wants to be.

 

[bocadillo]

I'm not aware of any evidence that Chris Powell would make a decent manager. He might be a succcess but he might be just another blind alley. However, there is more than sufficient evidence that Sousa is hopeless and Powell could be at least a stop gap whilst the situation is sorted. At any rate Powell is a reasonable short term option allowing us to get rid of Sousa now, then win the next home game and proceed from a better basis. Hopefully, Milan could see this change as the right moment to acknowledge that he is part of the problem - and move back to Pompey where he demonstrably wants to be.

Milan isn't going to go until he has got his money - and why should he? By all accounts that could take anything up to a couple of years. And I can't be the only one who is starting to think that there is an odd delay on the naming of the third 'investor'; somebody on whom the whole deal relies.

 

[spionfox]

I can't be the only one who is starting to think that there is an odd delay on the naming of the third 'investor'; somebody on whom the whole deal relies.

Events on the pitch have probably meant that quite a few of us had put that to the back of our minds.

But now you mention it...........