Gus next in at Forest?

[James Bond's body double]

How would he get on the the owner?

Gus Poyet is the new 4/6 favourite to be the next Nottingham Forest manager.

https://t.co/X9kzYB9zxB

 

[crasher]

Funniest thing about those odds is Pardew is still third favourite to be next England manager.

 

[Stat Brother]

Funniest thing about those odds is Pardew is still third favourite to be next England manager.

Behind Brendan Rodgers and Gary Neville.

All of a sudden Roy looks like a giant among pygmies

 

[jimhigham]

Should have stayed Gus. We're thinking of smashing through our ceiling.

I know. I know. Move on.

 

[Peter Grummit]

I really, REALLY hate that "You should've stayed with a big club..." chant.

however........

PG

 

[BensGrandad]

I would have thought that he would consider himself more likely for the Villa job.

 

[sir albion]

I would have thought that he would consider himself more likely for the Villa job.

No way will he get a prem job
Think you're seriously overrating him

 

[BensGrandad]

They wont be Premier in 2 months.

 

[London Irish]

Didn't like the guy from the moment he arrived and fell out with Nicky Forster but no denying he got us playing wonderful football with some average players, so will always wish him well.

 

[moggy]

They wont be Premier in 2 months.

They won't be prem league after this weekend !

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

They wont be Premier in 2 months.

Exactly.

 

[Eeyore]

No way will he get a prem job
Think you're seriously overrating him

That'll be a Third Division job next year....

 

[wilko1]

Have it on good authority Gus already been approached for the Villa job

 

[Rogero]

was the football wonderful under Gus. No slow and boring.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I would have thought Gus would be aiming higher than Forest.

 

[Icy Gull]

I thought he had only recently got a job in Greece,

Athens are 2nd in the table 25 points behind the leaders, they may have reached a ceiling I guess.

 

[Guinness Boy]

was the football wonderful under Gus. No slow and boring.

Actually it was both. A lot of revisionism has gone on around Poyet that isn't in any way factual. If you look at his whole tenure, however, we played some wonderful stuff to win League One (remember that team, Murray / Barnes / Wood up front. Barnes second top scorer with 20 goals, eight wins in March?). We tried to keep on playing it in The Championship and got found out at the back (the massively slow Painter still at LB for example) while we inexplicably switched Murray for CMS. That led to Gus tightening it up and playing tippy tappy possession football with a lone striker unsuited to the role - result, some very boring games indeed. He obviously realised that though and we got in players like Bruno, Ulloa and Vicente and, on our day were once again one of the most entertaining teams in the division. Palace 3-0, Blackpool 6-1, the Pompey game where Vicente beat them on his own, there was some wonderful football. And some turgid stuff when it went wrong.

Compare that to what came after though. Oscar was necessarily duller, trying to play tike taka with a far worse squad quality wise, yet it's to his credit he got that squad to the playoffs. Hyypia showed what happens when you take an inexperienced coach and throw him at a worsening squad. And then Hughton's first half season was as dull as anything as we scrapped to stay up, which was his only measure of success. Even this season we have been electric in some games (not just those where we've won big, think how good we were at times at home against Birmingham and MK) and dull in others - Sheffield Wednesday for example. However.....

I would have thought Gus would be aiming higher than Forest.

This in spades. It would be quite a come down and he'd fall out with the mental foreign owners in a heartbeat.

 

[fat old seagull]

I would have thought Gus would be aiming higher than Forest.

Brighton City perhaps? They're a big club with apparently no ceiling.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I would also credit Poyet and Oscar with some of the groundwork for this season BTW. Part of our game is built on how comfortable players like Greer, Bruno, Dunk and Lua Lua are in possession. They learned that under two of the previous three managers.

 

[sparkie]

I thought he had only recently got a job in Greece,

Athens are 2nd in the table 25 points behind the leaders, they may have reached a ceiling I guess.

His contract at Athens is only for this season, unless extended.