Gus/DiMatteo to QPR? (AKA, Mark Hughes has been Sacked)

[Blue Valkyrie]

This is disastrous news for Reading and Southampton.

So guess which will try and poach Gus.

 

[grummitts gloves]

Harry has signed a 3 year deal.

 

[The Stout Yeoman]

I dont think that many managers get a lump sum cash settlement after being sacked now. I am sure I read that RDM will continue to receive his weekly wage of £60k until he gets another job, great incentive for him to look and take a lower paid job.

An even greater incentive is to a) take your time looking and/or b) screw up every interview offered

 

[SussexHoop]

How many times does a manager get a team promoted and is then fired after a few months? How pissed off must a manager to be to get the bullet only a short time after he must have thought he had conquered the world!

Not sure if I've misunderstood you but Hughes didn't get us promoted, Warnock did although he was sacked(unfairly imho) in January.

Hughes has left us with a very expensive squad of players that aren't a team. His tactics have been awful, he doesn't know how to go for a win, couldn't see what was obvious to everyone else, 4-5-1 no matter who we're playing. He used 14 players last weekend and only 4 came out of that game with any credit - a 35 year old centre half and 3 that came up with us from the Championship.

Won 6 league games in 30 since taking over, lost 18, 2 points away from home since January.

The only concern I've got with Redknapp is he doesn't rate Taarabt and he's our best player.

 

[BensGrandad]

Think there will be a lot of ins and out n January with tried tested and proven premier players coming in. When will Crouch or Defoe brought in?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Not sure if I've misunderstood you but Hughes didn't get us promoted, Warnock did although he was sacked(unfairly imho) in January.

Hughes has left us with a very expensive squad of players that aren't a team. His tactics have been awful, he doesn't know how to go for a win, couldn't see what was obvious to everyone else, 4-5-1 no matter who we're playing. He used 14 players last weekend and only 4 came out of that game with any credit - a 35 year old centre half and 3 that came up with us from the Championship.

Won 6 league games in 30 since taking over, lost 18, 2 points away from home since January.

The only concern I've got with Redknapp is he doesn't rate Taarabt and he's our best player.

Sorry, my mistake.

But my point was I feel sorry for any manager who gets his team up to the Premiership and then gets the bullet within a few months. He hasn't become a bad manager in those few months. OK he may not have prepared properly or bought badly or whatever but often a large chunk of the problem is that the club are not ready - on and off the pitch - to survive reasonably comfortably.

Gus seems to want to make sure we are ready when we get there and I for one agree with that plan. OK, there is an argument that being a yo-yo club is one way of doing it, collecting parachute payments on the way. But two problems with that - firstly the club would get more money from staying in the Premiership rather than going up and down and secondly, more important in my book, the manager will almost certainly get dumped on the way. I firmly believe that for a club to really prosper it needs to have continuity of management, like the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world, not chopping and changing all the time. Especially if the manager sets the whole tone of football operations throughout the club, as he should. Again, Gus seems to be doing that. He picks the team but he also has a huge amount of input into development squad, training facilities, etc.

Incidentally my argument about getting fired once you get to the Premiership also applies to the players. I can think of loads of them who played a major part in getting their team promotes only to get sold before being able to play ther. Like some of our players, probably.

 

[SussexHoop]

I agree with your point about the manager that took us up ... I'm not sure if Warnock was given any money to buy players before the season started - most if not all his signings were frees. He had about 10 days once Tango & Cash finally sold to Fernandes and money was made available. His goal was for us to be outside the relegation zone come January which he achieved (just) and he was sacked.

I think you're right about planning and continuity. I hope we get some of that in the next few years - a long term plan, a new ground, a manager that will get us established as a Premier league club. Mark Hughes wasn't that man.

I believe a few players who helped us get promoted but were then moved on by Hughes tweeted something about karma yesterday.

 

[seagullondon]

The only concern I've got with Redknapp is he doesn't rate Taarabt and he's our best player.

No he isn't. Granero is

 

[Acker79]

Maybe the offer to Redknapp to manage Ukraine sparked QPR into action. Dodgy as frick, but he tends to get the best out of a good number of players and could be the sort of man to save them - or finalise them going bust.

Geoff Stelling on soccer satrday just asked the panel: "It's a good job QPR got in quick for harry before he went to the Ukraine, isn't it?" everyone laughed, a lot. Not that fake sort of laugh. Phil Thompson: Tony Fernandez has fallen or the oldest trick in the book!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Hope QPR go down now.