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So Gus asked to leave the club in March!
- Thread starter Doc Lynam
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
How do you work that out?
Not Andy Naylor
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You're suggesting that a Premier League club with a manager in place tapped up a manager at another club? I'm utterly and completely shocked.
Not with the MU job but if Moyes knew he was going maybe the role he vacated?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Just a rumour that I heard. I'm not suggesting anything, in fact, I was wondering if anyone else had heard the same rumour?
But fulham were sold in the off season, so would it have been the old owners tapping up, or someone who was not at that point officially affiliated with any club having a friendly chat?
fat old seagull
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Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
Well, he probably expected a job to become free. But maybe the chairman of the club left and not the manager.
drew
Drew
Read between the lines. Ask yourself why a manager would ask to leave paid employment, especially when, as a manager, the team are on the brink of the play-offs. Is it because he doesn't want to be a manager or is because he has something else in the pipeline, whether that be Fulham, Reading, Sunderland or A.N. Other. What is not clear is whether GP wanted to leave unhindered by the compensation in his contract that we would be due and that could be a reason why Bloom forced him to stay until the end.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Bloom said the relationship was ok for the first 3 years
Not Andy Naylor
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Of course, it may be that GP was simply unhappy with something and wanted to leave. Reading coincidentally came up the following week, but wasn't the "unbelievable" job he wanted.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Themore I read this the more I think this may have been a contributing factor to our play off loss besides woeful tactics that is, lets be frank Gus is the guy who would have pumped the team up for a big game and Palace were clearly far more up for the occasion. If this is true anyway and Gus wanted to walk out days before the Palace league game then every last bit of respect I ever had for him has gone.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
We won that game 3-0 and then finished in the playoffs so it didn't affect the team. We also trounced Blackpool.
I don't deny that could follow, but it isn't exactly explicit clarification of what I asked, is it? It doesn't explain the suspensions of tanno and charlie, or why it occurred at the end of the season. Nothing has been made all clear by this revelation. What would have made it all clear is the bit that Tony didn't talk about.
kevtherev
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Gus clearly had something lined up. Remember the post Palace wave and the comments on the radio and the coming back out on the pitch after the game to look around
...I can't believe there are still some people who want to defend this guy. How can a manager under contract want to leave a club, right in the middle of a promotion campaign. Which he clearly wanted to do. We were always a stepping stone in Poyet's mind, which some people will say is fair enough for an ambitious manager, which I agree with. But the way he went about things, showed a total lack of class and respect for Mr Bloom.....Anyone that can't see we are better off well shot of him is totally blind....To be honest the way we played the play off semi was nothing short of pathetic.....lack of motivation from the manager maybe, or just a off night Because we were a shadow of the side that played Palace off the park a few weeks earlier.
...I can't believe there are still some people who want to defend this guy. How can a manager under contract want to leave a club, right in the middle of a promotion campaign. Which he clearly wanted to do. We were always a stepping stone in Poyet's mind, which some people will say is fair enough for an ambitious manager, which I agree with. But the way he went about things, showed a total lack of class and respect for Mr Bloom.....Anyone that can't see we are better off well shot of him is totally blind....To be honest the way we played the play off semi was nothing short of pathetic.....lack of motivation from the manager maybe, or just a off night Because we were a shadow of the side that played Palace off the park a few weeks earlier.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Yes but he also said it was the phone call in March which stunned him. I'm sure he didn't mean 3 years exactly to the day from when he started.
