Sack Race 22/23
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Let me re-phrase it then.
What good manager, short of one looking for a pay day, would want to manage Palace, and what are the owners expectations for a bang average (at best) team with no investment?
Next manager won’t last 2 seasons unless, what, they take the current team in to the CL?
Depends what you mean by "good"? Good in our eyes or theirs? Of course it's not going to be someone like Tuchel or Poch but like any team that's fightning relegation they'll look to target someone with experience and someone who's capable of survival/good promotion from championship record. Not sure who the bookies have as favourite but knowing Parish and who he's recruited in his time there they've all had experience of managing/playing in the Prem.
Hodgson was there 4 years before he decided to retire....Palace were pretty happy with him then floating about in 12-14th place in no danger at any point of going down.
No easy games in this unforgiving league my friend...however tongue in cheek you wanna be about our situaiton.
We of all people should know this better than anyone else.
I honestly think it's a really harsh sacking. Yeah they're on a terrible run and have been painful to watch lately but surely they have to be bottom of the table in terms of investing in the team?
Thought they were very decent last season, first time they played actual football in more than a decade
Thought they were very decent last season, first time they played actual football in more than a decade
They're only 3 points above the drop and 5 points from rock bottom.....plus a lot of the teams below them have played a game less.
Amidst all that they did get knocked out the FA cup at home to Southampton.....
They have a shit squad and lost last season’s best player - what did they expect?
I bet they won’t finish higher than they currently are.
Have Moyes & Brodgers done a better job to remain in post?
Not like I care, though.
After a seemingly positive start to his career at Crystal Palace, seems like Palace are deteriorating.
https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/are-crystal-palace-sleepwalking-to-relegation/207816
No doubting Gallagher was very important for them but Zaha with 14 goals last season was their best player.
Probably won't finish any higher no but they should easily be finishing with more points than 1.00 ppg.
For me Rodgers and Moyes shouldv'e been sacked weeks/months ago, Lets not forget Moyes has been sacked before by West Ham for doing a better job
than he currently is....I think the fact they're still in the Europa Conference is whats holding him on a tight thread.....with Rodgers is seems to be a little more sentimental/relegation with the owner plus he has some credit in the bank from beating Chelsea/City to win the FA cup and Community shield.
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& apparently Eze and Olise are these amazing sought out talents who are destined for greatness.....but they can't create/score goals...
[article]The average age of Palace’s starting lineup has fallen slightly from 27.2 to 26.9 this season after the summer arrival of Cheick Doucouré for £20m, but the squad contains many of the stalwarts who served Vieira’s predecessor, Roy Hodgson, so well. Vieira is understood to have been frustrated by Parish’s unwillingness to reinforce his squad as much as he would have liked in January. Vieira targeted a right-back to replace the long-serving Joel Ward and Nathaniel Clyne and ended up with two midfielders: Naouirou Ahamada for £10m from Stuttgart and Albert Sambi Lokonga on loan from Arsenal.
Palace’s net spend of £82m over the past five years is the fifth-lowest in the Premier League – albeit almost double Brighton’s outlay – as Parish has prioritised £100m plans to redevelop Selhurst Park’s main stand to increase the capacity by 8,000 to more than 34,000. Planning permission has yet to be granted by the mayor of London despite approval from Croydon council last October. The £20m paid by John Textor to increase his stake in Palace to more than 40% when the American businessman completed his takeover of Lyon in December was directed towards that fund.
It is understood that Textor paid a further £30m this month in exchange for more Palace shares but remains frustrated at what he perceives as a lack of ambition in the transfer market. He fell out with Parish in January when his plans to switch his shares in Palace to his holding company Eagle Football Holdings were initially blocked by Parish.
Vieira is understood to have been informed of his departure in an early call with Parish as he was driving to training and departs along with his assistants Osian Roberts, Kristian Wilson and Saïd Aïgoun. The youth-team coach Paddy McCarthy will take the reins on an interim basis for the Arsenal match, with Hodgson the bookmakers’ favourite to return to the role he left in May 2021. Parish is believed to have considered approaches for an up-and-coming manager such as Burnley’s Vincent Kompany or Michael Carrick of Middlesbrough, although he has conceded he would find it difficult to persuade either to leave their promotion-chasing sides. Ralph Hasenhüttl could come into the frame given his experience in fighting relegation with Southampton.
For Vieira, who was sacked by Nice in December 2020, after losing five successive matches, there can only be frustration that he was not shown more faith.[/article]
Did he get fired on St Patrick's day?
Good grief - yes, he did too.
Not sure I'd put Vieira forward for sainthood but they've given him no real time to sort it. If they fetch Budgie back in they deserve to go down and may well do so IMO.
Not sure I'd put Vieira forward for sainthood but they've given him no real time to sort it. If they fetch Budgie back in they deserve to go down and may well do so IMO.
This photo looks like a "we have Gerrard at home" meme
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