Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

oh wow

that is desperately sad

pocchetino ????

I suppose we don't know the whole story yet, but if it's a straightforward sacking then fuck you Southanpton, hope you end up in the Conference

who's the briatore here, is it cortese or a higher power

Adkins can move on to a better club now anyway, so well done Nigel!

cortese runs the show. and until today i've been a fan. but fuck him forever for this.

shocking decision

which premiership clubs aren't a total joke nowadays? i guess in some perverse way, total-onrunning-joke-club newcastle united have actually shown the most tolerance towards their own vulnerability, the least hard-nosed romanceless fucking greed. saying that, soon as ashley can stump up pards' severance they'll probably tap up del bosque

Wigan

Everton, WBA

oh yeah everton for sure

wba are a bit more murky - is that peace chap still around?

have a queasy feeling that wigana are going to pull a dick move at some stage - they're a poorly-supported premiership club - the chemicals are volatile and the status can only be preserved...artificially...

kinda amazing that cortese kept this megalomania in check for so long. obv ramirez was a big vanity signing red flag but before that

jackpot stroke of luck for rangers obv

spurs's sacking of redknapp was quality coldblood decision making, the opposite of this kind of thing imo

yeah i guess spurs kinda belong on the 'do it with honour' list, jol aside (?)

spurs are entirely irrelevant to this discussion can we not crowbar them in ffs

28m Luke Shaw ‏@Luke_shaw3
Very confused lol

You and me both, Luke.

Not actually sure if I care if we get relegated now. This is... crushing.

x

this is the kind of thing that just makes you want to stop bothering with football, yes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/jun/08/sid-lowe-review-la-liga-2009-season

With 10 weeks left, Espanyol were bottom on 22 points, eight from safety, having won four times all season. It was going to take a miracle for them to survive, so Pochettino asked for one. He hiked 12km to Montserrat, pleaded with the Virgin to save his team and, lo!, she did. Ten games and eight wins later, Espanyol finished 10th.

Only three defeats in thirteen games since the start of November. You can maybe understand some cunt getting twitchy after the terrible start but to wait until he turned it around and had them on top half form then decide to sack him is just o_O to me.

hey guys i heard havant and waterlooville have an excellent track-record at sticking with a manager

think i might just support adkins from now on, follow him from club to club

imo a little bit of ramos for jol, a little bit of the aborted attempt to replace ian holloway for ramon diaz

if we're talking crowbarring :)

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?24795-Pardew-and-Coaching-Staff-Sacked

unbelievable you sick fucks i'm nominating Nige for beatitude now

BREAKING: Nigel Adkins has agreed terms with Portsmouth FC

Whilst we acknowledge the contribution Nigel has made during the past two years, for the club to progress and achieve our long-term targets a change was needed

"acknowledge". unbelievable. SB football

not defending this, or even all sackings, but the only clubs who've stuck with their managers are those ones where the manager has done well.

well as in 2 successive promotions and a very real chance of staying in the Prem for example?

great insight xp

maybe a home-game boycott? been threatened by many clubs but this time there might be enough outrage

This is insane, given Southampton had come through a really tough run pretty well and were clawing their way out of the relegation zone. Reminds me a bit of Newcastle deciding to replace Houghton with Pardew a couple of seasons back.

Pochettino did take Espanyol from the relegation zone to midtable in La Liga but still this is insane.

the only clubs who've stuck with their managers are those ones where the manager has done well

How many times has sacking the manager half way through a relegation battle seen the team in question ultimately go down? Probably more times than its kept them in the Premiership, I'd guess.

Wigan have stuck with Roberto Martinez for three seasons despite looking completely doomed on several occasions and he's successfully kept them in the Premiership each time, but it looks like Southampton have ideas above merely "stay up".

i think everybody ought to have ideas above "stay up" but in your first season in a division i'd say stay up is a pretty reasonable target

looks like Southampton have ideas above merely "stay up".

Is it bad form to wish administration on these cunts?

I mean I don't think Martinez has any idea how to take Wigan to the next level but when you're a club of that size (and Southampton aren't really THAT much bigger) as long as you're in the Premiership, everything is good.

I don't think you can take Wigan to the next level with the players he has at his disposal

woe betide ideas beyond 'stay up'. alan curbishley wasn't a uefa cup manager, iain dowie was the hot new property of english footb *punches hole in wall*

i doubt the sacking is to do with results/league position per se. probably something depressingly businesslike e.g. transfer policy/european contacts/cortese being a bellend.

I'm sure I read somewhere that the seventh top spending club in Europe in the close season was Southampton, in Europe, that can't possibly be true?

the boycott idea is i think sadly in the same category of lovely romantic fantasy as the illusion that your club might not be run by classless mercenary cunts. 90 mins of pro-nige chanting (on sky too) tho, for sure.

xp
yes that is true we've got loads of money now

ps fuck cortese

http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine/top-ten/120905/revealed-europes-biggest-spending-clubs-summer-transfer-window-180254?p=3

This says it's true. Net spend £33m.

LOL EPL

£33m to attempt make a Championship team into a Premier League team seems about right imo, given the TV income it gets you if it works - especially considering they were a League One team in May 2011.

Seriously fucked if it doesn't work, mind.

Southampton haven't sold anyone at all, which skews it a bit, but who apart from Rodriguez and Ramirez have they actually signed?

Most of their standout players seem to have been there already, clyne excepted

Argh Sandro out for the rest of the season, noooo.

shitttttttt