Poll..... Which club sacks its manager first this year?

[TTmonkey]

or one of the others..... (not enough options, but I think we have the likely candidates...)

i think the Villa are going down this year, so their manager suffers the first vote for me...

[Ted1990]

According to the bookies, and Sky Sports the Saints manager Nigel Adkins is the favourite to be sacked. They say he has no prem experience (true) but he is a fantastic manager and i hope he does well this year. If he does go maybe Arry can come back!

[OllieC]

Ted1990 said:

According to the bookies, and Sky Sports the Saints manager Nigel Adkins is the favourite to be sacked. They say he has no prem experience (true) but he is a fantastic manager and i hope he does well this year. If he does go maybe Arry can come back!

would be madness if he was sacked, save for a monumental cockup somehow on his part.

it would be like when Derby sacked BillY Davies, no-one else would have done any better !

[andyjo1982]

Ted1990 said:

According to the bookies, and Sky Sports the Saints manager Nigel Adkins is the favourite to be sacked. They say he has no prem experience (true) but he is a fantastic manager and i hope he does well this year. If he does go maybe Arry can come back!

I think they'll give Adkins time too. He's a very clever guy and done really good job at Southampton. I'd go for one of Mark Hughes, Brendan Rodgers or AVB. But if Norwich lose tomorrow, and by a few goals, Hughton will be a red hot favourite. I don't think it'll take long for the NCFC fans to turn. I think Lambert will be ok at Villa for a while, but its looking like a massive job on there.

[essexplumber]

None of the above.

[falkster]

Would be nice to see Southampton stay up, its so easy to yoyo. They did give City a hard time on Sunday.

Brendan Rodgers will be the first to go, Liverpool have been poor for the last couple of season if not longer and need someone that is going to pull them out of that and I don't think he has the experience to do it.

If you ask most Liverpool fans they will say they'd gladly accept Benitez back with open arms.

[mr2aw11]

falkster said:

Would be nice to see Southampton stay up, its so easy to yoyo. They did give City a hard time on Sunday.

Brendan Rodgers will be the first to go, Liverpool have been poor for the last couple of season if not longer and need someone that is going to pull them out of that and I don't think he has the experience to do it.

If you ask most Liverpool fans they will say they'd gladly accept Benitez back with open arms.

Can't speak for most Liverpool fans, but as a Liverpool fan, I'm not calling for Rodgers' head or a return of Rafa.
Rodgers will be given a chance, most certainly won't be the first of the above to go.

[DukeDickson]

Ailsa from Home & Away would be where my money would go.
Seems to be an awful lot of money being spent with not that much to back it up by way of revenue or owner wealth. A few more bad results, slight threat of relegation and

[CIE560]

My money would go on QPR/Mark Hughes. So you can be sure it won't be him.

[DukeDickson]

CIE560 said:

My money would go on QPR/Mark Hughes. So you can be sure it won't be him.

No, worth a few quid. Can't help thinking that the pressures in Shepherds Bush are a bit more Marianas Trench than their contemporaries/rivals.

Is TF really a beanie?

[TTmonkey]

Worth bumping.

[Nom de ploom]

havn't voted but I reckon (despite assurances) that Lambert at Villa will go first.

Villa are shocking and have been for the last few seasons imho.

they need to go down to rebuild and come back stronger.

I think rodgers has a a season in him before they start looking elsewhere unless he walks...

I reckon most managers will be given proportionately more time than usual.

I wonder what odds NO Premiership managerial sackings this season...

[Trophybloo]

Failure to sign Moutinho, Lack of ambition in team selection at home, side becoming Fulham by acquisition, team booed off. Got to be AVB ASAP!

[Spanna]

I'm gutted be a Villa fan at the minute. I was a season ticket holder in the season before and during O'Neill's stint as boss. We were awesome, a young squad with loads of talent and finishing high in the table. The owner buggered up a good relationship with an incredible manager and showed he didn't have the ambition that O'Neill did to push on and go for the big time.

What did he do? O'Neill left over the lack of funds and ambition, so he appointed a st manager and promptly spent £24M on Bent. I can't help thinking we'd be a top 6 team still if O'Neill was still there and and that money was handed to him.

On the bright side, Lambert seems a good manager and a good performance was put in at a difficult away game yesterday.

I don't think Lambert will be first to go this season. I think he can get the team motivated and the young lads he's signed will be looking to make an impression. I'm excited to see this Benteke play, looks a big, quick lad with goals in him.

Fulham have lost their best midfielders and despite signing Berbatov, I can see a lack of goals for them and a few losses in a row, so I'm going for Jol to be first to go.

[andyjo1982]

Spanna said:

I'm gutted be a Villa fan at the minute. I was a season ticket holder in the season before and during O'Neill's stint as boss. We were awesome, a young squad with loads of talent and finishing high in the table. The owner buggered up a good relationship with an incredible manager and showed he didn't have the ambition that O'Neill did to push on and go for the big time.

What did he do? O'Neill left over the lack of funds and ambition, so he appointed a st manager and promptly spent £24M on Bent. I can't help thinking we'd be a top 6 team still if O'Neill was still there and and that money was handed to him.

On the bright side, Lambert seems a good manager and a good performance was put in at a difficult away game yesterday.

I don't think Lambert will be first to go this season. I think he can get the team motivated and the young lads he's signed will be looking to make an impression. I'm excited to see this Benteke play, looks a big, quick lad with goals in him.

Fulham have lost their best midfielders and despite signing Berbatov, I can see a lack of goals for them and a few losses in a row, so I'm going for Jol to be first to go.

How do you feel about his signings from the lower league?

[Spanna]

He can only work with what the owner gives him. He made a couple of shrewd purchases, the young lads will want to prove themselves and get into the first team. I don't know much about them, but Lambert and the recruitment staff obviously do and were willing to pay a few million to get them. Now, it's a matter of waiting and seeing if Lambert can get them playing.

I've every confidence that we can stay up, but this season will be a massive battle as there are no particularly weak teams in the league so I think we will be very close to going down based on the squad we have.

[robmlufc]

Spurs - AVB is clueless

[andyjo1982]

Spanna said:

He can only work with what the owner gives him. He made a couple of shrewd purchases, the young lads will want to prove themselves and get into the first team. I don't know much about them, but Lambert and the recruitment staff obviously do and were willing to pay a few million to get them. Now, it's a matter of waiting and seeing if Lambert can get them playing.

I've every confidence that we can stay up, but this season will be a massive battle as there are no particularly weak teams in the league so I think we will be very close to going down based on the squad we have.

Honest assessment. I think you'll be safe too. Pretty much everytime Lambert signed a lower league player for Norwich, eyebrows were raised. Out of about 40 odd signing's he made, I can't remember too many that failed due to not being good enough. There were a few that had fair share of injuries, but players like Pilkington, Bennett, Johnson, Howson, Tierney, Russell Martin, Jackson, all developed and played a big part in staying up last season.

You guys have to give him time. The coaching staff he has are very good and really developed some of the less cultured players. I was gutted he left Norwich, and sort of understood it was a step up, but the job really does look a heck of a lot bigger than most imagined.

[MadMullah]

SAF @ Manchester united.

definately

this is the year

i said it last year

and the year before

but i'm confident - this IS the year.

[smn159]

Mancini has got to be worth a shout - with the amount that he's spent over the last few years and still whinging about a lack of signings this season (aren't the ones that he did sign good enough any more?), I wonder how long before the owners patience runs out.