I wonder how Gus Poyet is feeling today ?

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Tevez is now 33, and not the hot property he was when we knew him in England.

Shame, we'll have to look elsewhere for a striker then

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sorry, but that's nonsence.

Any particular part?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Poyet was the first Albion manager with the purse-strings loosened. Who's to say another manager couldn't have done just as well, as well as having the vision to keeping Murray on the payroll.

Lost all respect for the bloke earlydoors. Whenever we got a penalty at Withdean, muppet would make a big point of standing behind the dugout, mugging to the South Stand instead of watching the field of play and just maybe learning something. Shocking lack of prefessionalism. And guess what? He never ever got any more professional. It was always all about him. Bloke's a total wanker.

I know you didn't like him from the minute he signed, but really, picking him up on not watching penalties is a bit pathetic imo.

 

[father_and_son]

Thank you Gus... we probably wouldn't be where we now are without your time here, but we definitely wouldn't be where we are with you still here.

 

[Simster]

Any particular part?

All of it.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Any particular part?

Pretty much all of it l'm afraid. I know we have all moved on, and the Gus era all ended acrimoniously, but l maintain that he did a lot of things right, and was good for the club at the time.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I know you didn't like him from the minute he signed, but really, picking him up on not watching penalties is a bit pathetic imo.

I agree, all he was doing in looking the other way, is what most of us fans were doing. We really weren't very good at taking penalities at the time. If anything l think many of his antics in those days tendeared him to the fans, not riled them.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

A good article l think, and he comes across pretty well. He is right too, football is just a business to most players, he has no allegiances, so the decision to choose Norwich over Brighton, was just a business decision that he needed to make. Good luck to him.

Not sure, I think it's an awkward watch and he comes across as 'a bit gutted,but brushing it off because I'm talking to Norwich TV.'

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I know you didn't like him from the minute he signed, but really, picking him up on not watching penalties is a bit pathetic imo.

No it isn't. It's his job to watch the game and, like I say, maybe learn something. And yes I do know he could always watch the post-match replays . But that's not the point really.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Not sure, I think it's an awkward watch and he comes across as 'a bit gutted,but brushing it off because I'm talking to Norwich TV.'

Hindsight is a wonderful thing is it not?

 

[El Presidente]

Complicated?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

No it isn't. It's his job to watch the game and, like I say, maybe learn something. And yes I do know he could always watch the post-match replays . But that's not the point really.

It was banter with the crowd because no matter who took the penalty, at the time, we missed. We still got promoted. Most of the South stand were laughing with him.
It is a very minor point to dislike him for. He signed in November, and you said he would be sacked by Boxing Day. He wasn't.

 

[Normal Rob]

Poyet's ego is fuelled by press coverage and exposure. This is the first thing i have read about him in ages. QED.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

He signed in November, and you said he would be sacked by Boxing Day. He wasn't.

Yes. Yes he was. OK, I admit I may have got the year wrong...

 

[jimhigham]

A shame really. With patience I am fairly sure that he could have got us to the Premier League too but he's a slave to his own ego.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes. Yes he was. OK, I admit I may have got the year wrong...

3.5 years

 

[Postman Pat]

A bit peeved apparently.....

Gus Poyet has cast doubt on his future as Shanghai Shenhua coach after they slipped to yet another defeat in the Chinese Super League on Wednesday.

With Carlos Tevez again absent from the forward line, the big-spending club slumped to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Guizhou Zhicheng for their eighth defeat in 20 league games so far this season.

It left Shenhua 11th in the league and well adrift in the battle for places in next year's Asian Champions League, 12 points behind Tianjin Quanjian in the third qualifying spot.

'I don't know what to say now,' the Uruguayan said after the game.

'As coach I take responsibility for this match. I won't hide. I am proud of my job. However, I have reached my limit. I am not happy at all.

'Everything has its limit. I won't take responsibilities which are not mine. I don't want to say anything anymore because it won't be in my interests.

'I hope you won't ask more questions out of respect for me. Finally, I just want to say everyone has his limit.'

 

[The_Viper]

Thoughts also go out to Calderwood, wonder what he was thinking sat in the pissing rain at Colchester yesterday watching Villa GRIND out a win in the coconut twix cup.

 

[Easy 10]

No it isn't. It's his job to watch the game and, like I say, maybe learn something. And yes I do know he could always watch the post-match replays . But that's not the point really.

Learn something ? He spent his career playing at the top level in Uruguay, Spain and England, won the Copa Del Rey, the Cupwinners Cup (twice), the UEFA Super Cup, the FA Cup, and played 26 times for his country during which time he won the Copa America.

Probably picked a fair bit up along the way there.

 

[Albion Dan]

Bloke's a complete egotistical cock whose stock as a manager has been quite rightly totally devalued. Same goes for his pathetic sidekicks.

You took the words right out of my mouth.