Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:13 pm 0

Col wrote:Well for the time being its Glenn Roeder in charge with Shearer as assistant.

Shearer for manager?

Roeder hardly shone at West Ham. For your sakes, I hope it'll only be a temporary thing with him at the helm.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:19 pm 0

A name to throw in the hat, and this is just a hunch, is Jimmy Calderwood (ex-Dunfermline, currently Aberdeen). He's been agitating for a move to England for ages - currently linked with the Derby job.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:25 pm 0

Dio wrote:My comments of last night highly prophetic, I feel. But who on earth are we going to get to replace him? I hear the vague sound of the management merry-go-round starting up for a spin, with both the England and Newcastle jobs open.

I'm scared.

Shagger Sven next season anyone...?

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:34 pm 0

As a total outsider, it always seemed to me that Souness was on a hiding to nothing from the word go. I'm with Dio here: had sympathy for him most of the time but the performances recently have been just woeful.

Reckon Shearer will get it in the end. Mind you, the resident Boro fan is rather keen to shove McLaren in the direction of Toon

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:45 pm 0

I reckon they'll take stock for the rest of the season and then install Sven and Shearer for next season.

Whether thats a good thing i dont know

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:07 pm 0

See my previous comments on Sven. The fans won't take an aloof manager. Whatever deficiencies Souness had, it wasn't in confrontation or in desire to win. I can't believe that Shearer is the answer - or, to be honest, that he'd take the job at this stage.

I suspect the plan will be to run the Roeder/Shearer team for Portsmouth on Saturday before deciding whether they need a new manager a) immediately b) soon or c) at the end of the season. The cup game against Southampton on the 18th is one potential deciding point - we have the capability to get through that whoever's in charge, and then if we pick up the trophy's not utterly out of the question.

My first choice would probably be Stuart Pearce, but I certainly wouldn't object to Paul Jewell.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:41 pm 0

Bookie's favourite is Sam Allardyce to take over at Newcastle. No way, I'm not having it.

Now, Ottmar Hitzfeld would be a smart appointment - what's he up to these days? Martin O'Neill would be good but I can't see him putting up with Fat Freddie.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:46 pm 0

KevG wrote: Reckon Shearer will get it in the end. Mind you, the resident Boro fan is rather keen to shove McLaren in the direction of Toon

That's a best-case scenario for us really. I think 'boro are maybe holding on to see if Tony Mowbray continues well for Hibs. I've been vaguely hoping McClaren will do well again but he seems to have lost it a little bit recently. The chairman's been giving him more-or-less direct orders, and he got more than a little petulant when the purse-strings were cut this transfer window (Barton?).

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:42 pm 0

Here's hoping Sol Campbell manages to get his head right. He's a fine player, and depression/nervous breakdown, for whatever reason, is not something to be laughed at - there's no way he deserves the flak he's getting from some quarters.

Rumour hath it the News of the Screws has a story on him, but football rumours are never reliable; in any case, whatever's bothering him is his own private business for as long as he wants it to be...

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:48 pm 0

Acronym wrote:Here's hoping Sol Campbell manages to get his head right. He's a fine player, and depression/nervous breakdown, for whatever reason, is not something to be laughed at - there's no way he deserves the flak he's getting from some quarters.

Rumour hath it the News of the Screws has a story on him, but football rumours are never reliable; in any case, whatever's bothering him is his own private business for as long as he wants it to be...

It's been rumoured for years that he's gay, so I can only assume the newspapers are preparing to "out" him in the despicable witchhunt fashion they somehow still get away with in the year 2006.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:29 pm 0

Acronym wrote:Here's hoping Sol Campbell manages to get his head right. He's a fine player, and depression/nervous breakdown, for whatever reason, is not something to be laughed at - there's no way he deserves the flak he's getting from some quarters.

Not to be laughed at sure and he probably doesn't deserve as much flak as he is taking...

...but I find it hard to have sympathy for the money-grabbing judas.

Signed, A. Spursfan.

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:05 pm 0

Zen-Chan wrote:
Acronym wrote:Here's hoping Sol Campbell manages to get his head right. He's a fine player, and depression/nervous breakdown, for whatever reason, is not something to be laughed at - there's no way he deserves the flak he's getting from some quarters.

Rumour hath it the News of the Screws has a story on him, but football rumours are never reliable; in any case, whatever's bothering him is his own private business for as long as he wants it to be...
It's been rumoured for years that he's gay, so I can only assume the newspapers are preparing to "out" him in the despicable witchhunt fashion they somehow still get away with in the year 2006.

Yep, I have heard the same rumours too. I suspect the delightful News Of The World will probably run something this weekend. Possibly with a fake Sheikh.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:10 pm 0

cyric100 wrote:...but I find it hard to have sympathy for the money-grabbing judas.

Dunno what you do for a living, but if you were offered a similar job at a different company who offered you more money and better prospects, would you turn it down on general principle, then?

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:31 pm 0

According to Sky Sports, Wenger hasn't seen Sol Campbell since he substituted him. Seems a bit strange that, I hope he's alright.

Anyway. Newcastle. Is there anyone that isn't laughing at us?

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:52 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Anyway. Newcastle. Is there anyone that isn't laughing at us?

Yep.