Dave the OAP
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Not at all but it doesn’t take Einstein to work out that he would have been paid enormous amounts of money over his career and of course from the stupid money pit up the road
But of course you knew that
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[Albion] Would you welcome Bruno back ?
- Thread starter B-right-on
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But of course you knew that
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
I agree, but it's a one way street.
You make your bed, you lie in it...Paul Weller taught me that one.
He’s probably well off but also probably has an expensive lifestyle - cars, property, children at private school, etc, etc. Not sure how much back up staff are paid (even at Chelsea) but surely he needs and wants to work, and the longer he leaves it before getting a job the more his stock goes down
Still a no from me.
Has his reintegration started perhaps ? Interested to see on the latest ‘Albion unlocked’ video that he was mentioned having had dinner with and given Bruna Vilamala a tour of Brighton when she signed…….……….may be incidental but if not it’s quite a clever ploy to drop his name back into the fold without any fuss.
Hope not. We have had two managers since he left, completely overhauled the playing staff, become a club that has played in Europe and have completely rethought our ambitions in how far we think this club can go. The level of player we are working with now is a completely different level to when he was here.
I don’t see why we’d have the need for a mid-table level full-back with one moderately successful job behind him as an assistant to come into our amazing setup now. Why would we need him? He was a club legend when he was here and he had the chance to go all the way with us to wherever this amazing journey is heading, and he decided to take the money and the short-cut to get there by joining Chelsea. That’s absolute his prerogative to do that (and I have done similar at times in my own career) but he backed the wrong horse, so I can’t see any reason why we would should give him a leg back up again now.
I guess we could give him a role as a 1901 lounge host or something, as long as he addresses the fans with ‘forgive me for I have sinned’ before speaking every single time.
I don’t see why we’d have the need for a mid-table level full-back with one moderately successful job behind him as an assistant to come into our amazing setup now. Why would we need him? He was a club legend when he was here and he had the chance to go all the way with us to wherever this amazing journey is heading, and he decided to take the money and the short-cut to get there by joining Chelsea. That’s absolute his prerogative to do that (and I have done similar at times in my own career) but he backed the wrong horse, so I can’t see any reason why we would should give him a leg back up again now.
I guess we could give him a role as a 1901 lounge host or something, as long as he addresses the fans with ‘forgive me for I have sinned’ before speaking every single time.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Would we bring him back for the sake of it even though there was nothing we thought he could do well at the club? No, obviously not.
would we bring him back if there was a job we needed doing and his range of footballing knowledge, skills and personality suited him perfectly for? It would be daft not to.
Rational decision it may have been, but what it comes down to is he backed Potter over Bloom. Fine, we all make mistakes, and I don’t hate the man for it. But if I were Tony Blooom, I certainly wouldn’t be employing a long-term unemployed Coach who had already jumped ship on me once when we have plenty of excellent coaches already out of some sort of sentiment. He made his bed, so he can lie in it. We’ve outgrown him.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
That’s a very corporate response.
There is plenty of loyalty in football the supporters of clubs will support their club to the day they die.
Football fans are tribal. If you don’t understand why returning players/managers and even players that almost signed but didn’t get pelters on match days then you really are missing out.
Given that Paul Weller has had 8 children with 4 different women he appears to have problems staying in the same bed.
Presumably you never cheered Glenn Murray when he returned to the Albion?
It would have to be an incredibly specific role to fit him so perfectly that no other Coach all over Europe had the required footballing knowledge, skills and personality for it. If of course you are talking about hiring someone for those reasons, rather than ‘because he uses to play for us and knows the city’. Because that is such a small-time way of thinking, and we are well past that stuff now, fortunately.
I would wager that Bruno would absolutely love to come back and work for the Albion. He could go back to working and having a great life in the city he made his home and spend more time with his little Spanish / South American clique in Latino America and Cafe Malbec without any hassle. But those are the things you need to consider when you take a gamble like he did- ‘what happens if it all goes wrong?’.
We are now a club that looks forward, not backwards. The days of rehiring Micky Adams ‘because he did a good job last time’ have gone. Thankfully.
I would be absolutely amazed if Tony Bloom hired Bruno again in any meaningful role.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
- 21,767
No thanks, I don't like snakes.
Glenn was a quality striker in the peak of his career, who had scored 30 goals in the division that we were trying to get promoted from recently. He was exactly the kind of talent we desperately needed at the time.
If someone can explain to me why we desperately need an inexperienced coach who had one job at the club he retired from playing at, before jumping ship to do 8 months at a complete basket case of a club before getting sacked and being unemployed ever since in our amazing, world class setup now, then I’d love to hear it.
- Nov 15, 2006
- 4,226
Glenn still had plenty to bring to the party when he returned, what does Bruno bring? I think we probably have a better attacking coach now, so it’s a no from me.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
There is a distinct lack of beards at the club, clearly he could bring beard growth, management, style and shaping back into the Albion fold, he’s got a wealth of experience of balms, oils, brushes and clippers. #gethimback!
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Cheered the goals because they helped the club although the man himself not really no. Murray has always shown he favoured Palace fans. Marseille at home the NS sang his song and he didn’t even glance in the direction of the Albion faithful.
Did I enjoy the Pritchard episode and Potter with his motley crew return with Chelsea hell yeah.
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