Fox says sacking Lambert would be like flicking a coin??

[PaulWinch again]

One thing I'm curious about is that why we seem to operate on a much lower budget than everyone else in the league other than Burnley. I know Lerner wants to sell, but we can't be that much worse off than other similar clubs. I'm not expecting us to spend £60-70 million, but a Premier League club should be able to afford to spend more than we do.

[Neil Hawkes]

Perhaps our budget is dependant on who's spending it, we will never be given an exact figure (and we shouldn't). It's up to the manager to convince the board as to what's essential for progression, in our case at the moment - survival.
Unfortunately that has now gone and hopefully we have the players onboard to see us through and stay up.
The summer spend will be telling.

[Pete]

One thing I'm curious about is that why we seem to operate on a much lower budget than everyone else in the league other than Burnley. I know Lerner wants to sell, but we can't be that much worse off than other similar clubs. I'm not expecting us to spend £60-70 million, but a Premier League club should be able to afford to spend more than we do.

We've not spent a fortune recently, but Lambert's spent £51 million on players in less than three years. That's not small change. I've just looked up squad values - we're 13th. QPR, Stoke, West Brom, Swansea and Palace all have cheaper squads than us and are all above us in the league. There's more to it than money, and I think we all know that.

[ktvillan]

It was just the infamous "vote of confidence" in different words.  Very often followed by a sacking.

However I do wonder if it was triggered by the drop into the bottom three, it's not a great way to make a decision - what if we'd stayed 4th from bottom until two games left and then dropped into the bottom 3?  We'd have been screwed.

[mr underhill]

Foxy's coin was heads you're sacked, tails you're sacked as soon as  we slipped under the dotted line and that nice new TV deal was finalized

[Boz]

Foxy's coin was heads you're sacked, tails you're sacked as soon as  we slipped under the dotted line and that nice new TV deal was finalized

I'm of the same opinion, losing at Hull, bottom three and the new money coincided to bring Lambert to the end of the road. Don't agree with sacking him on the phone though, cowards way. Should have been face to face.

[mr underhill]

agreed, not the Villa way but both parties were thousands of miles apart and in my opinion no more drift was acceptable.

[garyfouroaks]

I take no satisfaction from lamberts demise I the absence of any credible alternative

[mr underhill]

I'm sure Paul will be comforted by those words as he sits in his counting house totting up his compo millions

[simon ward 50]

"What does the Fox say" now?

[pauliewalnuts]

There's more than a little bit of Ed Winchester about Tom Fox.

[LeeB]

There's more than a little bit of Ed Winchester about Tom Fox.

Ha ha, I had him down as son of the Face

[Ad@m]

Foxy's coin was heads you're sacked, tails you're sacked as soon as  we slipped under the dotted line and that nice new TV deal was finalized

I'm of the same opinion, losing at Hull, bottom three and the new money coincided to bring Lambert to the end of the road. Don't agree with sacking him on the phone though, cowards way. Should have been face to face.

Oh for the days when the owner had a garden to kick the manager out of!

[mr underhill]

yes  I suspect the 'come and look at my roses' call from Doug was totally unambiguous to the unfortunate recipient

[Damo70]

There's more than a little bit of Ed Winchester about Tom Fox.

I'm sure I heard somewhere Higson and Whitehouse ended up hating that character and got rid at the soonest opportunity.