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Itâs kinda hard to respect Samâs managing skills when his inflated ego and body outweigh it massively.
I donât like Fat Sams return especially with us playing WBA next week with our current injury situation. Could mean a few more injuries for us and a frustration game.
Our last 5 games against him. The 2:1 win was in the FA Cup and the rest were league games.
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Maybe we should sack Klopp and snatch Sam from under west broms nose.
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Howling 
I was sat in the Anfield Road end for the draw against Everton (we always draw when i sit in that stand) so apologies for that, even then their penalty wasnât a penalty. Then again his time at Everton showed that even his style had reached itâs limits.
Saying all that we owe him for the last time we lost at home, as I assume the Palace win on that list is the last game we lost at Anfield. Our record against Bilic isnât that great mind.
Sam? Is that you?
Just kidding. Fair enough, he did stumble into a purple patch all those years ago.
But I thought the name of the game was to stick the boot in on Fat Sam, not be fair and balanced, much less defend him?
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The thing with Allardyce is when he first appeared on the PL scene in the mid-90s he was seen as a progressive coach because - gasp! - he used analytic software and had a headset and stuff.
This was back in the days when chips and beans was seen as an acceptable pre-match meal and a pint in the bar after was how most professionals relaxed post-game.
Football moved on, techniques that were seen as revolutionary back then are not only commonplace now but have developed far further. Allardyce hasnât continued to develop with it, though, and by the mid-noughties the once-progressive coach was now basically a dinosaur. In terms of the actual football his teams play, Iâd argue itâs even regressed since those Bolton days.
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I would say he has regressed.
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That is a fair summise.
One question that it raises, which Iâm not too skilled to look at (numbers and figures have never been my thing) is what level of backing he has gotten for transfers since that Bolton team, and how it compares to other the rest of the league at that period?
I remember at Blackburn, he transfer budget was pretty limited compared to alot of the league but canât recall what it was like anywhere else.
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Found this, you can track his spending at every club:
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Tuchel just got sacked at PSG.
Quality manager. Dortmund would have won at least two more trophies if it wasnât for their CEOs ego.
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Tuchel comes across as a bit petulant to me.
Arsenal next?
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I never really got the hype over Tuchel. Nothing I saw made him stand out, but I guess he falls into the bracket of so many other managers following on from a legendary manager, it is very rare they stand out themselves as they have the massive shadow hanging over them, similar to the managers at Utd post Fergie - no manager was ever going to be successful there due to what they were following on from
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If you manage PSG youâre only judged on winning the CL. Nothing else.
Yet theyâve chosen a manager whose never won anything in Poch.
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To be honest itâs becoming a job that doesnât really harm your career if you get the sack.
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So no Pochettino for manu. Good.
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Is this confirmed?
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Pretty much
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