Pellegrino out? Or are we resigned to keeping him?

[scotty]

Wouldn't want Hughes at the club, so if the four points is correct I hope they're wrong on his potential replacement.

 

Nor would I, particularly. But as a desperation measure to try and keep us up I could see it happening, in fact that was my first reaction when stoke sacked him. Think I said that on the hughes sacked thread.

[mrfahaji]

Lose the next two and he’s gone. Anything else and he stays (that’s not itk just a guess)

 

Ever since the original message I got about the club putting feelers out it’s gone very silent, and the club line is he’s our manager so I’m of the opinion that was just contingency management

 

 

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The problem with this is that we have been dying a death by a thousand cuts under Pellegrino. We haven't had a good spell at any point this season, but equally we haven't had an obviously disastrous spell for a while either. Clearly not winning since November is disastrous, hence why we are 19th, but you can't look at two or three consecutive matches in isolation and deduce that they were deserving of a sacking.

 

Can you sack someone for drawing at home to Huddersfield? What about losing at home to Crystal Palace? Not on their own, certainly not when we also took points off United and Arsenal and only lost narrowly to Chelsea & City in the same period. But over a whole season something has been wrong, we have a knack of drawing or narrowly losing against whomever we play.

 

Maybe we'll draw tonight, then maybe we'll draw against West Brom. One respectable result, one disappointing but not disastrous result (in isolation). But we have to win one, and I'd say we need a point in the other. If you fail to beat Brighton, then you wait to see the WBA result... and if it's not a win, then it may well be too late for anyone to turn it round.

 

(this isn't an attack on you btw, I realise you are just posting a theory rather than what you would do)

[Toussaint]

I think you will continue to hear discontent. If we start to climb the table it will be in spite of Pellegrino, not because of him.

 

What perverse logic.

[Simon3737]

What if he keeps us up, and in the Summer gets to bring in the kind of players he wants to and kicks on from there?

 

Even if we stay up, I don’t want him to be allowed to bring in the players he wants!

 

I don’t want us to buy players next summer who suit Pellegrino’s boring football.

 

The reason I agreed with Puel being sacked was because I didn’t want his cautious football to becoming endemic, to become the next Southampton way.

 

We currently have a squad suited to attacking passing football. If we stick with negative managers then in a couple of years our squad of players will all reflect that style and we’ll play like a Tony Pulis team, but with less success.

[Tom & Gerry]

Even if we stay up, I don’t want him to be allowed to bring in the players he wants!

 

I don’t want us to buy players next summer who suit Pellegrino’s boring football.

 

The reason I agreed with Puel being sacked was because I didn’t want his cautious football to becoming endemic, to become the next Southampton way.

 

We currently have a squad suited to attacking passing football. If we stick with negative managers then in a couple of years our squad of players will all reflect that style and we’ll play like a Tony Pulis team, but with less success.

 

If you are bored with slow passing football then Pulis style football seems to be exactly what you are asking for.

[Micky]

What perverse logic.

 

There was no logic, it was a statement borne from an agenda.