Terry Henry.

[olaftab]

As he says with a big cheesy smile in his Sky sport ad  " Zerz alwiz nex wik".

He can sit down with Gary Neville and discuss their respective managerial careers for hours.

[Des Little]

Le twat. Huge bullet dodged.

[KevinGage]

It's concerning that he appeared to be the favoured candidate on two occasions (at least with the Egyptian lad). Based on little more than a load of waffle on Sky.

Nothing else I have seen from him since he hung up his boots marked him out as a thinker.

Sure as shit he'll blame the set-up at Monaco. Despite having more favourable conditions than 95% of other managers in the French top division.

[chrisw1]

I'm so glad we went for an established thinking manager rather than a flashy name with good TV soundbites (albeit I was seduced by the idea oh Henry too at the time).

I remain quietly confident Smith will get us in the playoffs and with the players in our squad if we do get that far it would be a fool who would bet against us in the one off big games.

[Villa75]

What is it, 2 wins in 12 league games? You'd have to go, with that sort of record wouldn't you? Even though he's only had  3 months.

Mind you, there are some that would say he's not been given time to build his own squad in such a short space of time, and he should be allowed a minimum of two windows, and maybe even a couple of seasons, to get things right.

Well done on the owners for not dragging it out. If it's not working, it's not working.

[mr underhill]

neither is Dean at the minute

[paul_e]

What is it, 2 wins in 12 league games? You'd have to go, with that sort of record wouldn't you? Even though he's only had  3 months.

Mind you, there are some that would say he's not been given time to build his own squad in such a short space of time, and he should be allowed a minimum of two windows, and maybe even a couple of seasons, to get things right.

Well done on the owners for not dragging it out. If it's not working, it's not working.

If you sack managers after 3 months regularly you're only going one direction and it's not the way you want to go. I've not seen Monaco play either before he arrived or whilst he was there so I can't tell you if he deserved to go but there's clearly a problem because a manager who'd got them to 2nd the season before being sacked after 2 months with them in the relegation spots suggests something has gone badly wrong. I think turning that round is a massive job and, in truth, was clearly too big a job for a rookie. It doesn't make sacking managers early on if they have a bad run the right thing to do though, all that does it put you into a cycle of permanent transition because no coaching team has chance to embed any ideas or create an identity. I hate the reliance on quick fixes in football and sacking managers within months of them arriving is an attempt at a quick fix. The only time I think it's the right thing to do is when they're clearly out of their depth or when the manager was the quick fix and has failed. If you used the right criteria to select the manager in the first place then he's still the right man 3 months later.

[eamonn]

Yeah but you gotta applaud Villa75 for the audacity.

Two wins in twelve does suck, a two-aller against Lamberk tomorrow will send some of us over the edge.

[Ads]

Don't feed the troll. He's quite plainly some banned gimp back to chat shite.

[Matt C]

Didn’t I read he’s going to be replaced by the same manager they sacked three months ago? Not that we’ve been model decision makers over the last decade or anything, but that doesn’t seem the best thought out plan.

[Villa75]

Don't feed the troll. He's quite plainly some banned gimp back to chat shite.

You're the only "gimp" on here, buddy. And, most of the "shite" chatted  on here comes courtesy of your ever failing predictions.

[dave.woodhall]

Don't feed the troll. He's quite plainly some banned gimp back to chat shite.

You're the only "gimp" on here, buddy. And, most of the "shite" chatted  on here comes courtesy of your ever failing predictions.

Both of you can cut that out.

[Villa75]

Don't feed the troll. He's quite plainly some banned gimp back to chat shite.

You're the only "gimp" on here, buddy. And, most of the "shite" chatted  on here comes courtesy of your ever failing predictions.

Both of you can cut that out.

Apologies.

[Damo70]

If you are manager of one of the traditional top four clubs in the league and are in the relegation zone in January you will get the sack, whoever you are.

[brian green]

See Garde, R.  Except his top four were in Ligue Un.