Pressure getting to Gus?

[Creaky]

Only because that was the way his interview was reported, those words did not come out of his mouth. What did were the quotes that his team are currently not good enough and too easy to play against.

They are, but that's your job to get them organised and difficult to play against isn't it Gus?
I'm sure he'll sort it out though.

Gus agrees with you on that:-

"My job - I'm a head coach, I coach, I convince players what is the best way to play football,"


Only because that was the way his interview was reported, those words did not come out of his mouth
Are you sure about that

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Fantastic is a little over the top. I would reserve that epithet for managers who have won multiple trophies at the highest level. Roy Keane and Paolo Di Canio are born winners and bad losers but it hasn't helped make them good managers.
Gus is now in unfamiliar waters. Managing a top flight team, in a relegation struggle and this will be the acid test of his career thus far. If he can outperform the likes of Pulis ( who is already turning Palace round ) then his stock will rise. At present, I can't see three or more teams that I feel Sunderland will finish above.

I wouldn't say pulis already turning palace around, teams often have a brief upturn in fortunes when a new manager comes in.

 

[portslade seagull]

As usual, he's trying to blame everybody and everything except himself. Just an opinion.

I agree with you .... but why oh why do people have to keep bringing him up on this board. He engineered his exit, best he is forgotten

 

[Mo Gosfield]

I wouldn't say pulis already turning palace around, teams often have a brief upturn in fortunes when a new manager comes in.

He is turning Palace around. Four games ago, posters on here were predicting a record low PL points haul. He has already got them back in the mix and with his record/experience, I wouldn't back against them surviving.

 

[hybrid_x]

Tho i don't like Poyet or Sunderland, i would rather Palace went down and Poyet won every game.

 

[B.W.]

Read the quote from that article:-

"Manager Gus Poyet says HIS Sunderland side are currently "not good enough" and "too easy" to play against"

How is that blaming others? - he is quite rightly including himself as part of the Sunderland team - you seem determined to read something that is simply not there.

Yes, he's blaming his team, not himself.

 

[B.W.]

I haven't mentioned him. You've written 20-odd negative posts. So, no.

You are here KG. I've actually said I think Gus will keep Sunderland up. How is that negative?

 

[B.W.]

Gus agrees with you on that:-

"My job - I'm a head coach, I coach, I convince players what is the best way to play football,"


Only because that was the way his interview was reported, those words did not come out of his mouth
Are you sure about that

So, his team aren't good enough but that is not blaming others, it's blaming himself. OK, if you say so.

 

[B.W.]

Tho i don't like Poyet or Sunderland, i would rather Palace went down and Poyet won every game.

Me too.

 

[itszamora]

It's not the first time I've said it, but I love the revisionism on here and how suddenly Gus is suddenly the worst human being and manager to have ever set foot in Brighton. Foot of League 1 to 2 games from the Premier League in 3.5 seasons. Awful.

 

[B.W.]

It's not the first time I've said it, but I love the revisionism on here and how suddenly Gus is suddenly the worst human being and manager to have ever set foot in Brighton. Foot of League 1 to 2 games from the Premier League in 3.5 seasons. Awful.

Great manager. Huge ego. Big mouth. He can be and is all 3 of these. No revision, just the way it is.

 

[symyjym]

Uruguayan losing patience with Di Canio's signings and is planning seven new players next month.

telegraph.............

 

[B.W.]

Uruguayan losing patience with Di Canio's signings and is planning seven new players next month.

telegraph.............

I thought it was his fault!? Surely, this can't be right!?

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Uruguayan losing patience with Di Canio's signings and is planning seven new players next month.

telegraph.............

Must admit (and I will stand corrected) wasnt one of Di Canios problems that some players were signed for him by the director of football (or whoever he was) and expected to fit them in.

 

[symyjym]

Must admit (and I will stand corrected) wasnt one of Di Canios problems that some players were signed for him by the director of football (or whoever he was) and expected to fit them in.

Yep they were Di Fanti signings, that is what Di Canio was upset about.

I think Gus was making Di Canio the scapegoat to avoid directly critisising Di Fanti, but I don't think Di Fanti would have been fooled by this.

Gus's trouble is that he is too open to the media, on one hand a few weeks ago he said his job was giving the players belief and now on the other hand he is publicly saying he wants seven new players in whilst demanding 3 wins from his current squad over the Christmas period.

If he wants seven players that's fine, but keep this confidential to avoid his current players losing focus because if he is bottom at Christmas they certainly won't get guality signings in, just mercenaries.

 

[B.W.]

Seriously worrying that he will try to cherry-pick our best players. I recommend that Tony hike the prices of Ulloa, Bridcutt and anyone else Mr Poyet fancies a reunion with.

 

[symyjym]

Hey Kalimantan, do you have an identical twin who supports Sunderland

 

[Rugrat]

Seriously worrying that he will try to cherry-pick our best players. I recommend that Tony hike the prices of Ulloa, Bridcutt and anyone else Mr Poyet fancies a reunion with.

Our best players aren't going to go straight in and produce the kind of form that will save them from the drop. He might have a go for Bridcutt but he's really got to buy experience given the probability of only having 11 or 12 points at the half way stage. Plus, raiding us for 2-3 players will leave him open for a huge amount of criticism I'd imagine

 

[fat old seagull]

He is gone but will NEVER be forgotten nor should he for the lift that he gave us on the field and as a club in general.

...... or the fact that he is a traitor, taking a good salary on a long contract from BHA whilst hawking himself around the Prem like a Piccadilly Tart. Good riddance, we don't need the guy.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

He is turning Palace around. Four games ago, posters on here were predicting a record low PL points haul. He has already got them back in the mix and with his record/experience, I wouldn't back against them surviving.

Pulis had been in charge 3 games (can't count the first game against hull as he'd been appointed that day and was I'm the stands) and has 2 wins in 3. Poyet got 3 wins in first 5 but i dont think the first few games are good evidence that a manager is having an effect. It's too early to tell for both.