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Who Would You Choose?  

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  1. 1. Who Would You Choose?


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Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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Is is very true. The ONLY person I can remember who thought it was a blinding piece of business was Guillem Balague.

 

I think most of the unhappiness was about the manner of his arrival.

CHAPEL END CHARLIE

CHAPEL END CHARLIE

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Yes I would. It's not his fault that the idiots with money there pay £50m for Sterling.

 

Check what he did with Villareal and Malaga.

 

I'm not really interested in what achieved years ago. Look at how his team spent half of last season 'on the beach' and how he struggled to get a performance out if them - at least in the PL.

Bewildered

Bewildered

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Walter Zenga...let's look at his dazzling CV

 

Brera Calcio

Naţional Bucureşti

Steaua Bucureşti (won league title and made uefa cup last 16, then got fired for bad results)

Crvena zvezda (won the serbian league cup double)

Gaziantepspor (Failed, 5 wins in 17 then quit so he could run off to the middle east)

Al-Ain (sacked after 5 months)

Dinamo Bucureşti (lasted 2 months0

Catania (Did OK, but no more than that)

Palermo (sacked for poor results)

Al-Nassr. (sacked for bad results)

Al Nasr SC

Sampdoria (sacked for poor results)

Al-Shaab (left by mutual consent after bad results)

 

If we hire this guy, he will last 3 months at best.

CB Fry

CB Fry

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Walter Zenga...let's look at his dazzling CV

 

Brera Calcio

Naţional Bucureşti

Steaua Bucureşti (won league title and made uefa cup last 16, then got fired for bad results)

Crvena zvezda (won the serbian league cup double)

Gaziantepspor (Failed, 5 wins in 17 then quit so he could run off to the middle east)

Al-Ain (sacked after 5 months)

Dinamo Bucureşti (lasted 2 months0

Catania (Did OK, but no more than that)

Palermo (sacked for poor results)

Al-Nassr. (sacked for bad results)

Al Nasr SC

Sampdoria (sacked for poor results)

Al-Shaab (left by mutual consent after bad results)

 

If we hire this guy, he will last 3 months at best.

They'll be a hipster along in a minute babbling on about Pochettino and how-will-we-ever-know-how-good-he-is-at-this-level-if-he-never-gets-a-chance.

Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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I'm not really interested in what achieved years ago. Look at how his team spent half of last season 'on the beach' and how he struggled to get a performance out if them - at least in the PL.

 

You are very boring.

shurlock

shurlock

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Walter Zenga...let's look at his dazzling CV

 

Brera Calcio

Naţional Bucureşti

Steaua Bucureşti (won league title and made uefa cup last 16, then got fired for bad results)

Crvena zvezda (won the serbian league cup double)

Gaziantepspor (Failed, 5 wins in 17 then quit so he could run off to the middle east)

Al-Ain (sacked after 5 months)

Dinamo Bucureşti (lasted 2 months0

Catania (Did OK, but no more than that)

Palermo (sacked for poor results)

Al-Nassr. (sacked for bad results)

Al Nasr SC

Sampdoria (sacked for poor results)

Al-Shaab (left by mutual consent after bad results)

 

If we hire this guy, he will last 3 months at best.

 

 

Not quite the footballing equivalent of Tago Mago [iNSERT ANY OTHER RANDOM HIPSTER ALBUM], is it?

CB Fry

CB Fry

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Not quite the footballing equivalent of Tago Mago [iNSERT ANY OTHER RANDOM HIPSTER ALBUM], is it?

Walter Zenga is Australian Lucky Charms with Coconut Milk served in a Tricorn hat. On a unicycle. In Norway.

Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Zenga:

 

Teams managed:

1998–1999 New England Revolution

2000–2001 Brera

2002–2003 Naţional Bucureşti

2004–2005 Steaua Bucureşti

2005–2006 Red Star Belgrade

2006–2007 Gaziantepspor

2007 Al-Ain

2007 Dinamo Bucureşti

2008–2009 Catania

2009–2010 Palermo

2010 Al-Nassr

2011–2013 Al-Nasr

2013–2014 Al Jazira

2015 Sampdoria

2015–2016 Al-Shaab

 

Doesn't really fit the bill does he?

 

Has hallmarks of...

 

1) agent's futile attempt touting no-hoper client who doesn't remotely tick any of Les Reed's criteria

2) bookie using press to try to get public to back no-hoper and manipulate the marker (conflict of interest with Murdoch newspaper and Murdoch Skybet)

3) clickbait

4) some or all of the above

scotty

scotty

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I don't remember a single person being happy with MP at the time, not one. The whole feeling was around chants and protests at the Everton home game to send our 'displeasure'.

 

A big part of the negative reaction to pochettino was the club sacking nigel after back to back promotions. I've got to include myself in that reaction.

CB Fry

CB Fry

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Has hallmarks of...

 

1) agent's futile attempt touting no-hoper client who doesn't remotely tick any of Les Reed's criteria

2) bookie using press to try to get public to back no-hoper and manipulate the marker (conflict of interest with Murdoch newspaper and Murdoch Skybet)

3) clickbait

4) some or all of the above

My favoured explanation is the club are trolling the s@#! out of the fanbase for a giggle.

 

If I was a billionaire owner of a club I'd think I'd actually spend more time on that than doing proper deals. The days would fly by.

Nordic Saint

Nordic Saint

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Has hallmarks of...

 

1) agent's futile attempt touting no-hoper client who doesn't remotely tick any of Les Reed's criteria

2) bookie using press to try to get public to back no-hoper and manipulate the marker (conflict of interest with Murdoch newspaper and Murdoch Skybet)

3) clickbait

4) some or all of the above

 

 

1) What are those? Anyone who'll do as he's told by Reed? Maybe Zenga is desperate enough for a job to accept that; Garcia clearly wasn't.

Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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My favoured explanation is the club are trolling the s@#! out of the fanbase for a giggle.

 

If I was a billionaire owner of a club I'd think I'd actually spend more time on that than doing proper deals. The days would fly by.

 

Maybe it's Markus's young grandson who's behind it all.

Block34

Block34

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Yeah, boring but right.

 

 

And were they perhaps less motivated due to Pellegrini having his managerial rug pulled from underneath him with the PG announcement. Maybe the team were getting long in the tooth, or tired, or just not plain trying. Maybe MP himself simply couldn't be arsed at that point.

 

But you highlight a time when there was a pretty extenuating circumstance that could well have been the root cause of the beach mentality.

 

But you won't deny they still finished above us and in the CL positions, irrespective.

 

Still waiting for your apology too...

Wildgoose

Wildgoose

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I have a gut feeling it will be none of these mentioned, but a 'rabbit out of the hat' that will surprise us. I have no evidence for this, just a long time of following Saints. One thing I'm sure of. It won't be Zenga.

angelman

angelman

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Have a horrible gut feeling we are struggling to get someone half decent hope I'm wrong

 

Well at least we can fall back on the dream team of Reed/Lee. In fact , why are we even looking elsewhere?

scotty

scotty

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Yes, It might be a surprise, remember the appointment of Paul Sturrock? Something like that perhaps.

 

That's a good point. Is he still available?

Saint IQ

Saint IQ

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Walter Zenga...let's look at his dazzling CV

 

Brera Calcio

Naţional Bucureşti

Steaua Bucureşti (won league title and made uefa cup last 16, then got fired for bad results)

Crvena zvezda (won the serbian league cup double)

Gaziantepspor (Failed, 5 wins in 17 then quit so he could run off to the middle east)

Al-Ain (sacked after 5 months)

Dinamo Bucureşti (lasted 2 months0

Catania (Did OK, but no more than that)

Palermo (sacked for poor results)

Al-Nassr. (sacked for bad results)

Al Nasr SC

Sampdoria (sacked for poor results)

Al-Shaab (left by mutual consent after bad results)

 

If we hire this guy, he will last 3 months at best.

 

Guess people would rather have him though than the "Achingly trendy hipster nobody whose last job was relegating some two bob club"

 

I know I wouldn't.

itchen_dan

itchen_dan

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Now would be a good time for K billy to come in and tell us that we won't be seeing Walter Zenga take the job.

 

Guan should be back from his holiday too.

 

I was going to say hopefully it's time for another update especially after this weekends supposed further round of talks.

Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf

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The thought of us getting this Zenga bloke is taking me back to the Jan Poortvliet appointment. I'm getting a very similar vibe about him and I can't really put my finger on why.

Dalek2003

Dalek2003

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Yes, It might be a surprise, remember the appointment of Paul Sturrock? Something like that perhaps.

 

It was a disaster. Had we appointed Hoddle we would have retained our premier status.

farawaysaint

farawaysaint

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Were you really impressed by Poch? He was sacked by Espanyol with an awful win percentage and in a time where nobody wanted him.

 

Fair point, but remember we were coming from the very capable Nigel Adkins to him. Poch's CV was far more illustrious.

 

Not knocking Nige at all, he was amazing and I was gutted when we sacked him but Poch softened the blow for me.

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