English football 2021-22

[Gingerfinch]

Norwich finally win a game then sack their manager. How bizzare

Obviously gone before a ball was kicked. Not sure where I stand with that one. I can see Bruce going to Norwich and doing a decent job though.

[Durhamfootman]

manager culling season atm

Spurs, Newcastle, Watford and Villa. 20% of the Prem managers and all in a couple of weeks.

Might be 25% soon

Norwich, of course

[mikesiva]

West Ham United beat Liverpool 3-2!

[yuppie]

It feels that Leicesters time at the top table has come to an end. Not even competitive today.

[mikesiva]

Watford thrashed Manchester United 4-1.

[Durhamfootman]

has to be the end for OGS, surely?

Howe has to miss his first match because he tested positive... typical NUFC

[yuppie]

He is gone but no idea who will replace him.

DF the new owners of NUFC are not making the best start. So far I am not convinced they are that competent at football management.

[sussexpob]

He is gone but no idea who will replace him.

DF the new owners of NUFC are not making the best start. So far I am not convinced they are that competent at football management.

Howe is a decent appointment and no doubt he'll get a war chest.

Can't blame the new owners for years of underinvestment from Ashley.

[yuppie]

He is gone but no idea who will replace him.

DF the new owners of NUFC are not making the best start. So far I am not convinced they are that competent at football management.

Howe is a decent appointment and no doubt he'll get a war chest.

Can't blame the new owners for years of underinvestment from Ashley.

More how they went about appointing their new manager. Howe is indeed a good manager but was their 3rd choice. Emery who was all but confirmed by the owners seemed confused with what the remit was.

And they knew they were going to take over the team, and that they would instill a new manager but seemed to have no one ready. The war chest will be huge but lets be honest here, its huge at United as well and thats not going to well at present

Though im sure in the long run they will get it sorted. Playing Forest next season by the looks of it.

[Durhamfootman]

I much prefer Howe to Emery, so I wasn't at all disappointed when he turned the job down. Even with pots of money to spend it's still a business, so even if Howe impressed them mightily at his interview, why would they give a transfer fund, limited only by the FFP rules, to a manager who will have very limited experience of spending that sort of money, so I can understand why they might have preferred to go with Emery. In fairness to the new owners, I think the sudden change of heart from the PL caught them on the hop a little. If it had come earlier in the summer then Benitez would have been installed immediately, but that boat had sailed by the time the deal got the green light. I'm sure they'd have much preferred to wait until January, but they probably didn't trust Ashley not to move the goalposts again if they didn't do the deal immediately. Between windows is a terrible time to buy a football club, but it is what it is.

Prospects look grim for this season. The only football club in the entire 92 team football league to have not won a game yet. It would probably take 5 consecutive wins to get them out of the bottom 3 by the time the transfer window opens and that just isn't going to happen. Having not beaten Brentford (yeah... exactly), if they don't beat Norwich or Burnley in a couple of weeks time then it's hard to see where any win is going to come from before January. The other teams they face.... Arsenal, Leicester, Liverpool, Man C, Man U, Everton...... crumbs! They could be 15 points from safety by January. Even with a big spend, relegation looks really difficult to avoid, but as SP says, this is what you get after years of under investment.

Even buying players in January is looking difficult, If you are that far from safety, no proven quality overseas players are likely to want to come and the other PL clubs seem to be intent on boycotting the sale of any players to Newcastle in the window. Faced with a new rich rival, it suits the big clubs very nicely to try and negate that threat for another couple of years.

Despite all that, I'm a happy man atm. The spectre of Ashley no longer haunts the club and for the moment that's good enough. The long term future looks very bright, even if the next year looks problematic.

[yuppie]

Just accepting that next year you will be in the championship means that the rebuilding can start this Jan.

A good time to get things rebuilt behind the scenes and for new infrastructure to be put into place.

As has been shown for a few years now you wont need the Saudi money to get out of the division, the parachute payments have destroyed the competition in the championship.

[Gingerfinch]

Ole's been sacked and Southgate has been given a new contract.

Utd supporters will be happy!

[Durhamfootman]

I heard 6 mill a year for GS

GS.... 6 mill

[Durhamfootman]

were Man U fans worried he might take over at OT?

[Gingerfinch]

were Man U fans worried he might take over at OT?

Well rules him out and they did employ Ole, so anything was possible!