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Bloom: Poyet here to stay
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"Gus is here on a long-term brief. He has pledged his future to the club and we are close to agreeing a new four-year contract for him and Mauricio."
The Large One
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Where in that statement does it mention 4 years
Not sure. Let me see if it's in there...
Poyet Here to Stay
Albion chairman Tony Bloom has issued a hands-off warning to Portsmouth, after media speculation linked them with a move for Gus Poyet.
Poyet, speaking from South America says he is not interested, and dismissed the reports linking him with the FA Cup Finalists as "total speculation".
Bloom, who has ploughed a £100m chunk of his personal fortune into the club to finance the new stadium, said, "Gus is here on a long-term brief. He has signed up for the future and we are close to agreeing a new four-year contract for him and Mauricio with the club.
"The new stadium is only a year away: we want Gus to take us there, and he wants to lead us into our new home at Falmer.
"He has done a very good job since coming here as manager in November, and I can understand other clubs being interested in his services, but as far as I am concerned he is not available.
"I want Gus to be here at the Albion for a very long time. I feel he will be a top manager, and manage at the very top level - but I want him to do that with Brighton & Hove Albion."
Poyet is currently away in South America, but on Saturday he pledged his future to Albion. Today he reiterated, "I'm very happy here at Brighton.
"There is a big future for the club. We have a great chance to fight for promotion next season so I would not want to go anywhere else. I would have to start from scratch again and that is not the right way to do it.
"I can only imagine someone has linked my name to Portsmouth so they can get a great story in the week before their Cup Final appearance against Chelsea!"
Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
Just filed the following to The Times and Times Online (which is still free - get it while you can!) Probably won't be used until tomorrow though.
Gustavo Poyet, the manager of Brighton & Hove Albion, has distanced himself from reports that he could succeed Avram Grant if the Portsmouth manager leaves Fratton Park after tomorrow’s FA Cup final against Chelsea.
Poyet and Maurizio Taricco, his assistant, are in the process of agreeing a new four-year contract with the League One club, which will allow them to take charge of the team’s first match in the new 23,000-seat stadium presently taking shape at Falmer and which is due to open at the start of the 2011-12 season.
“My idea is clear,” he told The Times yesterday. “I’m negotiating a new contract and I’m looking forward to concluding an agreement. I said I wanted to lead the team out for the first match at the new stadium and I don’t want to change that.
“I think it’s a good situation for me to become a better manager, I’ve been able to get the team playing and believing in my way, which is important to me and I don’t want to start all over again. So now my job is to find a few extra players to push for promotion next year.”
The former Chelsea, Tottenham and Uruguay midfield player led the team away from the relgation zone after taking over from Russell Slade in November. Tony Bloom, the chairman, expects a strong promotion challenge next season in the hope that the club will open the 2011-12 season in a higher division as well as in the eye-opening stadium that he has financed with an estimated £100 of his considerable personal fortune.
Life at Fratton Park next season, albeit in the npower Championship, seems fraught with uncertainty by comparison, with few players remaining under contract and the possibility of a further points deduction.
“It’s difficult to talk about the Portsmouth situation when you are not involved, because it’s quite unclear, but we know that we are in a very strong situation at Brighton and that’s the main point right now,” Poyet said. “We accept that, because we’ve done very well over the past four or five months, that some possibilities will open up, but that’s football. It happened to me as a player and an assistant, and it’s going to happen as a manager.”
Gustavo Poyet, the manager of Brighton & Hove Albion, has distanced himself from reports that he could succeed Avram Grant if the Portsmouth manager leaves Fratton Park after tomorrow’s FA Cup final against Chelsea.
Poyet and Maurizio Taricco, his assistant, are in the process of agreeing a new four-year contract with the League One club, which will allow them to take charge of the team’s first match in the new 23,000-seat stadium presently taking shape at Falmer and which is due to open at the start of the 2011-12 season.
“My idea is clear,” he told The Times yesterday. “I’m negotiating a new contract and I’m looking forward to concluding an agreement. I said I wanted to lead the team out for the first match at the new stadium and I don’t want to change that.
“I think it’s a good situation for me to become a better manager, I’ve been able to get the team playing and believing in my way, which is important to me and I don’t want to start all over again. So now my job is to find a few extra players to push for promotion next year.”
The former Chelsea, Tottenham and Uruguay midfield player led the team away from the relgation zone after taking over from Russell Slade in November. Tony Bloom, the chairman, expects a strong promotion challenge next season in the hope that the club will open the 2011-12 season in a higher division as well as in the eye-opening stadium that he has financed with an estimated £100 of his considerable personal fortune.
Life at Fratton Park next season, albeit in the npower Championship, seems fraught with uncertainty by comparison, with few players remaining under contract and the possibility of a further points deduction.
“It’s difficult to talk about the Portsmouth situation when you are not involved, because it’s quite unclear, but we know that we are in a very strong situation at Brighton and that’s the main point right now,” Poyet said. “We accept that, because we’ve done very well over the past four or five months, that some possibilities will open up, but that’s football. It happened to me as a player and an assistant, and it’s going to happen as a manager.”
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
If Gus DESERTS us I will PERSONALLY kill MYSELF 
Nick.
jezzer
Active member
that he has financed with an estimated £100 of his considerable personal fortune.
Bloody hell, is that all, tight git, how are we gonna pay for the stadium with that??
Hope it doesnt appear in the paper as £100!
Bloody hell, is that all, tight git, how are we gonna pay for the stadium with that??
Hope it doesnt appear in the paper as £100!wont believe it until he has singed on PAPER personally, for now heres some PUNK lyrics aimed at the last Bush when he won his last term:
"Four more years of War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is Freedom.
Four more. May all your interventions be "Humanitarian".
Four more years of pay-to-play politics, power and influence.
Four more years of legalized bribery and served corporate interests."
"Four more years of War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is Freedom.
Four more. May all your interventions be "Humanitarian".
Four more years of pay-to-play politics, power and influence.
Four more years of legalized bribery and served corporate interests."
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Hopefully someone will proofread it first.
H B&B is already working on it!
Why couldn't Gus sign before he went to South America
Tricky Dicky
New member
Last time I heard any chairman say his manager was "Here to stay" was ... ooh let me see ..... oh, yeah, last week - Sullivan talking about Zola.
(Not that I'm sceptical, but I'd like it signed & sealed)
(Not that I'm sceptical, but I'd like it signed & sealed)
CliveWalkerWingWizard
Well-known member
To be realistic if Gus does take us up next year we will find it very hard to keep hold of him.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Sorry but any contract signed by Poyet, or indeed by any ambitious manager, is simply not worth the paper its written on. The Albion are a classic 'stepping stone' for Gus, he'll be gone soon as his first promotion or trophy is in the bag. That is, if he doesn't flounce first due to some real or imagined slight. Either way, he'll be gone sooner rather than later. Nothing's surer. The cognoscenti are NEVER wrong.
dannyboy
tfso!
yeh bit if hes signed a 4 year deal we are due some BUNCE
The Large One
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So what would you prefer - Poyet or the bunce?
Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
No, I've just looked, and he's definitely not here
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
I am in Ibiza and he definately isn't here.
