Shakespeare sacked by Leicester. Claude Puel appointed.

[St. Juste]

Peter Reid & Harry Redknapp were good football men and achieved high heights as managers so your assessment of them I find bittered albeit I do agree with most of your post. Even though Arry still likes the wonga those guys were of their time so I would expect football to have moved on. Stuart Pearce would have been a better example to use.

Puel is really just a French version of what you speak of though. He was given the top job on the basis of being a career Monaco boy and helping out with the reserves. Crap appointment by Leicester and rival teams will be quite pleased I bet.

Good football men? What constitutes a bad football man? Surely Redknapps latent corruption mark him out as a bad egg?

Not that I feel particularly embittered about either, but I'm quite happy it's moved on.

As for Stuart Pearce, I'm not sure bringing on your sub keeper, as an outfield player, to get an equaliser was ever in vogue. GBs first and last football coach I hope.

You might be right about Puel, he was probably the best Leicester could attract and being out of work would mean he was relatively cheap.

 

[SALTIRE]

Speaking of media self aggrandisement, it takes a special kind of hypocrisy to complain about 'foreigners' taking jobs when you live and work abroad yourself.

Keys is the archetypal Brexit voting little Englander.

And he has hairy ape hands.

 

[Benji]

Such a shame this job went to a foreigner. The game's gone.

 

[JimJams]

The 'most competitive league in the world' now being the preferred moniker - even though that's even less accurate.

In terms of the big leagues its absolutely accurate. Just list the league winners over the last 10 years for each league, which league has a more diverse pool?

 

[mistermagic]

Forget Allardyce. Paul Jewell is available!

This never gets old does it.

You have to ask why so many want to come here?

Is it the money and chance of a new challenge in the "best league in the World"

Whilst most of our retired players would rather be pundits and play golf most of the time..

It's 100% the money.

Puel got a lot of stick for his time at Southampton but I'm not sure where Saints get off criticizing a manager's methods for getting results. He got them to a cup final and kept them stable in the Prem but the club want decent football to watch (I can understand that the fans want that, they do pay to watch Puel's drivel after all).
Thanks to this experience, Leicester know exactly what they are getting for their money. He'll keep Leicester stable and hard to beat. Football will be tosh though. Can't have it all I'm afraid.

 

[JimJams]

He didnt play that way in France though, hopefully it was just because the Saints players weren't up to much, cos theyre no better now really despite having players like Boufal and Gabbiadini.
His seeming lack of personality will always count against him unless he overachieves.

 

[mistermagic]

He didnt play that way in France though, hopefully it was just because the Saints players weren't up to much, cos theyre no better now really despite having players like Boufal and Gabbiadini.
His seeming lack of personality will always count against him unless he overachieves.

Depends for which club. He was terrible at Lyon, ok at Lille and Monaco and Nice (unfancied sides with no pressure).

 

[Rammy]

This never gets old does it.

Nope, never!

 

[HarvSFC]

This never gets old does it.


It's 100% the money.

Puel got a lot of stick for his time at Southampton but I'm not sure where Saints get off criticizing a manager's methods for getting results. He got them to a cup final and kept them stable in the Prem but the club want decent football to watch (I can understand that the fans want that, they do pay to watch Puel's drivel after all).
Thanks to this experience, Leicester know exactly what they are getting for their money. He'll keep Leicester stable and hard to beat. Football will be tosh though. Can't have it all I'm afraid.

We also finished 17 points worse off than the 2015-16 season and six points off 17th, rather than the 15 points off seventh.

We also won just one of our last eight games in the league (against relegated Middlesbrough), which included a 0-0 home draw against Hull and a 0-1 home defeat against Stoke on the last day.

But you’re definitely correct, he was just sacked because we wanted to play more entertaining football.

 

[JimJams]

Listen you fuckers. He's gonna be brilliant. Champions league football next season. FA cup this. Exciting. Fucking. Football.
Deal with it!

 

[St. Juste]

In terms of the big leagues its absolutely accurate. Just list the league winners over the last 10 years for each league, which league has a more diverse pool?

Yes, well they are stating it in absolute terms - not tied to the hitherto undefined "big leagues".

The EPL is not the most competitive league in the world, not even close, the claim is laughable.

 

[JimJams]

Which is then?

 

[St. Juste]

Which is then?

It's virtually impossible to tell. But if you want more competitive you only have to look one league below the EPL.

 

[Jockney]

It's virtually impossible to tell. But if you want more competitive you only have to look one league below the EPL.

Moving the goalposts as an artform.

 

[St. Juste]

Moving the goalposts as an artform.

I'm not sure anyone could move the goalposts to the extent the EPL would be 'the most competitive league on earth'.

Not that it matters now anyway, based on some group stage CL results it's already back to being the best.

 

[Jockney]

I'm not sure anyone could move the goalposts to the extent the EPL would be 'the most competitive league on earth'.

Not that it matters now anyway, based on some group stage CL results it's already back to being the best.

>Big Leagues
>Championship

Pick one.

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

Can pitch it to the big cheeses at Sky and BT if you want St J, but I fear they may conclude that "the most competitive league on earth, discounting the significantly less prestigious leagues we're obviously not referring to" might not be a very snappy tagline for a broadcaster.