[Albion] De Zerbi was NOT “sacked”

[Greg Bobkin]

Klopp has only just left, and Pep is still there. So, yes, those days may be on the way out - but hardly 'long gone'!

This list is the kind of thing I was referring to. No manager is going to trouble this lot, IMO:

https://www.givemesport.com/longest-premier-league-managerial-reigns/

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Mutual Agreement' when it comes to football managers covers a multitude of meanings, most of which are football-speak for 'sacked'. In our particular case, it clearly meant what it said on the tin. The owner and the head coach clearly agreed to disagree and parted on (so far as such a thing is possible) amicable terms

 

[dazzer6666]

'Mutual Agreement' when it comes to football managers covers a multitude of meanings, most of which are football-speak for 'sacked'. In our particular case, it clearly meant what it said on the tin. The owner and the head coach clearly agreed to disagree and parted on (so far as such a thing is possible) amicable terms

Credit to both for the way it’s been done too.

 

[raymondo]

I remember getting a long letter from former a GF of similar length, explaining why it was she was not dumping me.

Indeed... words are so important

 

[Bold Seagull]

Credit to both for the way it’s been done too.

Finding it hard to credit a manager who we have helped thrust into the limelight from being relatively unknown, to 20 months later stopping the game by taking his ball home.

 

[Beach Hut]

Can't remember which game it was but in the post-match interview RDZ said it was club policy to play younger players and Baleba wasn't ready yet.

Very rash and stupid statement as clearly not true and to me that was the beginning of the end.

 

[raymondo]

Can't remember which game it was but in the post-match interview RDZ said it was club policy to play younger players and Baleba wasn't ready yet.

Very rash and stupid statement as clearly not true and to me that was the beginning of the end.

I partly remember that...and was a bit surprised he said it. Maybe his English wasn't nuanced enough....

 

[Springal]

I partly remember that...and was a bit surprised he said it. Maybe his English wasn't nuanced enough....

It was after the Palace away game

 

[Weststander]

This.

Not sure why people want to dish out blame all the time (the notorious 'Bloom untrustworthy' thread, and all the other 'RDZ is a a selfish egotist' bolleaux).

It is possible to have an amicable break up.

That said....one side has to be the one to reach tipping-point first and, for what it is worth (which is nothing, since nobody will ever know the truth) I expect it was the club in the present case. Which, by definition, means RDZ was sacked. But.....in a lovely way.

Brains limited to binary thinking. Plus some shit stirrers, wanting to get others to join them in hating RDZ.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Oh yes he was. ….

 

[Tybalt]

Finished on the same points as Bournemouth and behind Palace…obviously he was sacked.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I had suggested on one of the RDZ threads whether some of the squad wouldn’t be totally upset with the departure based on the perceived demands he puts on the squad.

Here we are

 

[dwayne]

I had suggested on one of the RDZ threads whether some of the squad wouldn’t be totally upset with the departure based on the perceived demands he puts on the squad.

Here we are

Glad this is coming out now. Suspected RDZ was a wrong'un. Better off without the bully.

 

[Krafty]

I had suggested on one of the RDZ threads whether some of the squad wouldn’t be totally upset with the departure based on the perceived demands he puts on the squad.

Here we are

Explains why the players “lost motivation” despite qualifying for Europe still being a possibility.

 

[Eeyore]

Glad this is coming out now. Suspected RDZ was a wrong'un. Better off without the bully.

You only have Pedro's say so. No-one knows what was happening in the camp. Just because one player says something doesn't mean it's gospel.

It's like people who share stuff in Facebook without looking into it. Grinds me gears.

They were fine the previous season.

 

[Seagull58]

Glad this is coming out now. Suspected RDZ was a wrong'un. Better off without the bully.

 

[Mustafa II]

Bit of speculation, but I wonder if he lost some players or a faction of the squad during the end of his reign.

Our form was abysmal, and he couldn't recover it.

I'm glad he's gone to be fair. I never really warmed to the bloke, but his first season was just the perfect set of circumstances - he was the right man at the right time.

I think this season would have been a disaster if he stayed.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Glad this is coming out now. Suspected RDZ was a wrong'un. Better off without the bully.

You weren’t complaining in Marseille, Athens or Amsterdam.

 

[oldboyroy]

Explains why the players “lost motivation” despite qualifying for Europe still being a possibility.

After the Bournemouth hammering?

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

I had suggested on one of the RDZ threads whether some of the squad wouldn’t be totally upset with the departure based on the perceived demands he puts on the squad.

Here we are

I wonder if there may be something in the rumours that Roberto and João Pedro came to blows in training?

All in the past now.