[Albion] Roberto De Zerbi To Leave Albion After Tomorrow's Game

[TomandJerry]

I hope all those attending the Amex tomorrow can give him the send off he deserves.

Finishing top of a Europa League group is fairy tail stuff.

 

[Bridcutt]

The summer 23 window left us with zero non-work in progress defensive midfielders, zero PL quality cover for Velts and Estupinan. With a bigger programme ahead and an historic chance in Europe.

Not after-timing, countless posters mentioned these aspects last August.

(Dahoud played a ‘Gundogan’ esque role in Germany, not a DM or pivot).

A woefully deficient window.

@Guinness Boy famously summed it up mid season with RDZ’s having to manage “with one hand tied behind his back”.

This was inevitable once Bild mentioned Bayern really rate him.

Yeah the window wasn't good enough but we also just got really unlucky with injuries. Forgot to mention that we bought Igor too.

De Zerbi still didn't do good enough this season with what he had.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Why does anyone want to be a lame duck manager? It does nothing for the manager or the team.

Start using the people who want to manage in Brighton.

If one employs ambitious people, what would make you think that their ambition stopped at Brighton?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Makes a bit of a joke of the fans forum

So what else is new?

 

[del strangefish]

No more fannying around in our own box

 

[Muzzman]

I will not wait behind to clap him

Wait… what?

Forget about RDZ, surely you’re gonna wait behind and applaud the team off for this season?

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Overrated. one dimensional coach who likes to whinge and moan about not getting enough resources. Should he have been given more money to spend, probably yes but Bloom will never change in that regards unfortunately. RDZ to Bayern nailed on now Tuchel confirmed he is still leaving. Who’s next for us? Amorim would be the dream

His aspirations would be higher than Dewsbury-Hall I rekon and we couldn't even deliver him !

 

[chip]

Once someone is miserable, sulky and moody in their job it’s time to move on. He’s been that for a long time.

I should have left my job years ago

 

[Zeberdi]

I’m so sorry he is leaving.

Personally, I think it’s our loss at the end of the day in terms of the football (I think we played the best football I have ever seen in the Premier League under RDZ last season) and suggests to me that we won’t see much investment over the summer apart from the usual older/free transfer types or some young untested starlets who won’t be Premier League ready. I can totally understand why he doesn’t want to stay under those circumstances - However, it’s worked for us financially but we will never compete with the big 7 or 8 clubs spending power. ‘De Zerbi’ ball is a great system but it needs better players than the ones we have to make it work at both ends of the pitch and to compete with those better/bigger Clubs who have emulated it.

We also need a much deeper squad to absorb the level of injuries we are seeing routinely across top flight football if we are going to not only qualify but get through the knockout stages of European campaigns - Roberto warned us about that last summer but the Club thought they knew better or had the long term financial health of the club in mind more. He warned us again in January but again the Club knew better.

I’m sure we will survive as a mid table club for another few seasons but for me, this season has shown without a change of investment level, we have hit the ceiling - despite TB/PB saying otherwise (because obviously for them that’s their ‘dream’ ) - and that, realistically, without that extra investment, how far can we go when money is pouring into more and more Clubs in the EPL from Arab/foreign consortiums?

I hope I am wrong wrong in that assessment - even if I am, I think RDZ has been unfairly maligned by some fans who have not appreciated how much he achieved for us last season nor what an achievement it has been this season to finish near mid-table having competed in Europe (when we were not ready) and having most of our key players out injured.

Thanks Roberto and good luck at your new Club - your energy and ambition pushed us to be better than we were or can afford to be.

 

[A1X]

Maybe we’re after Southgate?

 

[Mancgull]

Haven’t read the whole thread but there have been rumours that we’ve been doing informal meetings with potential replacements for weeks.
For what it’s worth I reckon we’ve known about this for a while.
Whether people like this or not, Burnley have been rumoured to have approached mark Robbbins to replace Vincent Kompany who is one of the people we have been allegedly chatting with.
This hasn’t just been decided IMHO. We’ve planned for this for some time.
At least we can get someone in who wants to be here.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Uncalled for given the money invested by Tony Bloom.

He's a very shrewd businessman. He's not invested it out of the goodness of his heart

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It’s gonna be Jurgen Klopp he’s jobless tomorrow

There might be some obscure bloke in some obscure league ahead of him, all I know is we've had a taste from the honey pot so let's get in an apiarist

 

[AmexRuislip]

Basically he's been honourably sacked, to put it bluntly.

 

[southstandandy]

Guessing really... but after everything that's been said by Bloom and Barber about wanting to keep RDZ, surely it must be that in their recent discussions Tony found RDZ's demands on transfers just too much & wasnt willing to make promises that could financially hurt the club or get us into FFP trouble.

I think this could be close to the truth. Unless he's been tapped up by Bayern, maybe he isn't happy that the budget for this summer is not what he expected, or he's possibly not happy with the youthful policy the club continually use. Who knows? Still a slightly sad end as I thought he was going to stay for 1 more season.

 

[Springal]

He's a very shrewd businessman. He's not invested it out of the goodness of his heart

In the real world his investment so far would be terrible - £400M down !

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Last time we sacked a manager who fell out with the chairman, we ended up appointing Hyypia and nearly getting relegated.

I trust TB has learnt a lot in the last ten years.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Haven’t read the whole thread but there have been rumours that we’ve been doing informal meetings with potential replacements for weeks.
For what it’s worth I reckon we’ve known about this for a while.
Whether people like this or not, Burnley have been rumoured to have approached mark Robbbins to replace Vincent Kompany who is one of the people we have been allegedly chatting with.
This hasn’t just been decided IMHO. We’ve planned for this for some time.
At least we can get someone in who wants to be here.

Talksport also mentioned rumours about Kompany contact.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

No more fannying around in our own box

To be fair that was always Grade A bolleaux. Major risk for little reward. And now all the silly saps in the EPL have followed suit

 

[Deadly Danson]

His aspirations would be higher than Dewsbury-Hall I rekon and we couldn't even deliver him !

So how much should we have paid for someone who didn't want to come here and who's club didn't want to sell? £50m + £150,000 a week? We were right to stop at a reasonable level and if RDZ doesn't understand how we work then he wasn't listening when he joined.