AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[PaulWinch again]

It's weird it's almost like the fans are the only ones who are thinking clearly. Everyone else appears to have had their brains washed by this 'he's hated because he's blues' bollocks.

[Rick_avfc]

It's weird it's almost like the fans are the only ones who are thinking clearly. Everyone else appears to have had their brains washed by this 'he's hated because he's blues' bollocks.

Whats annoying is that no matter how loud we shout and say it, it falls on deaf ears.  They always seem to print the fact that he is from blues is the reason we didnt want him!  They seem to ignore the fact that we are saying that we didnt want him as he was rubbish!

[Rico]

The media know very well it's got nothing to do with his previous employment, and everything to do with his track record and his feeble efforts this season. However, it suits them to play on the anti blues theme because it sells papers or gets listeners on the radio. Have you ever listened to Talk shite? They only ever seem to allow dummies on who are quite happy to go along with their party line. What's even more annoying is the ex players or managers who spout the same nonsense. It's not Mcleish that I dislike, it's his dreadfully bad antiquated ideas for football!

[john e]

It's weird it's almost like the fans are the only ones who are thinking clearly. Everyone else appears to have had their brains washed by this 'he's hated because he's blues' bollocks.

Whats annoying is that no matter how loud we shout and say it, it falls on deaf ears.  They always seem to print the fact that he is from blues is the reason we didnt want him!  They seem to ignore the fact that we are saying that we didnt want him as he was rubbish!

maybe we should just join them, and say 'yeah, thats the reason, we will never accept him because he's a nose, so lets get rid as its never going to work, you were all right all along'

then we can go back to putting people right on the 5 year plan myth, and that Martinez was never offered the job in the first place or whatever it was , i forget

[PaulWinch again]

'The game isn't about management it's about the players', is an unbelievably stupid statement. Doug must have lost his marbles if he believes that's true.

[tricky59]

Can you believe it when Deadly says it's not about management.  His memory HAS gone, can't remember him sacking players only plenty of managers.  AM is just never going.  Heaven Forfend!!!

[mr woo]

Well if he does get the push he will have trousered £4m for the remainder of his contract, his reward for being an utter, abject failure.

What a weird world the football industry is.

I would hope AM's quits. All this talk of saying "I'm not a quitter I can turn it around". A bigger braver man must be able to admit defeat and say "Sorry everyone I tried my best, cheerio" and leave without a big pay off.
But like you say this is football and it is very strange industry indeed.

Ha! You've got more chance of being stuck by lightning! He's not going to give up 4 million quid - in fact I can't remember the last time a manager resigned, that's not how it works these days.

The biggest profile one that springs to mind is Kevin Keegan after England lost to Germany at Wembley.

Funny, I recall a certain manager quitting his post a couple of years ago, and the cheeky fucker still managed to screw us for a pay-off.

[CJ]

Paying off McLeish's contract for failure is morally repugnant - but if the choice is give him £4M or he stays, just pay him off. Keeping him would lose the same amount of money in falling ST's/gates anyway - 5 seconds on a calculator shows that £4M is around 8000 ST's. Get a decent manager in, entertain the paying customer, and he'd be quids in

[Concrete John]

Paying off McLeish's contract for failure is morally repugnant - but if the choice is give him £4M or he stays, just pay him off. Keeping him would lose the same amount of money in falling ST's/gates anyway - 5 seconds on a calculator shows that £4M is around 8000 ST's. Get a decent manager in, entertain the paying customer, and he'd be quids in

If you consider he has two years remaining and presume the ST sales would increase for both of those should he go, it's actually only 4,000.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

If someone is shit, I don't understand why you should have to pay them to leave.

[PaulWinch again]

Thing is we don't know about the contract. It's unlikely but there could have been a clause put into it to get rid of him after a year for a reduced pay off.

[Concrete John]

If someone is shit, I don't understand why you should have to pay them to leave.

And that, in a nutshell, is the biggest problem with modern football.

It's not unique to us.

[VillaAlways]

Thing is we don't know about the contract. It's unlikely but there could have been a clause put into it to get rid of him after a year for a reduced pay off.

Very unlikely as they would have just given him a years contract,surely? Sounds like Mcleish is holding all the cards.I thought at the time the 3 year contract was unbelievable given the circumstances of his previous club

[pauliewalnuts]

If someone is shit, I don't understand why you should have to pay them to leave.

I'd love to know the sum Chelsea have laid out in buying out managers' contracts over the time since Mourinho left.

[itbrvilla]

Thing is we don't know about the contract. It's unlikely but there could have been a clause put into it to get rid of him after a year for a reduced pay off.

Very unlikely as they would have just given him a years contract,surely? Sounds like Mcleish is holding all the cards.I thought at the time the 3 year contract was unbelievable given the circumstances of his previous club

Just goes to show what a pair of prats we have in charge.