rumour has it curbishley to take over from rene he has been taking training sessions and looks to be taking over as rene has lost 8 out of 10 games.thats us gone then
Seriously...another wum. Rene signs a record signing for the club and then he is relived of his duties not long after....jesus muppet central tonight.
Agreed Worthing, no way they'd back him with god knows how many players and then sack him.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/fulham-boss-rene-meulensteen-set-3054474?#.Uu1e5_l_sSY (http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/fulham-boss-rene-meulensteen-set-3054474?#.Uu1e5_l_sSY)
I'm going to sound like a proper **** but i LOVE rene , dont get me wrong , but defensively i think curbs could sort us out , wilkins needs to sod off
The bastion of sporting journalism that is the Daily Mirror...
And why is everyone so anti-Wilkins? I don't get it, sorry.
Quote from: Herbie on February 01, 2014, 09:22:42 PM
And why is everyone so anti-Wilkins? I don't get it, sorry.
Anti Fulham you mean!
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't Alan Curbishey keep West Ham up back in 07, when all seemed lost. Just saying
Apologies if I cause a melt down, but...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/fulham-boss-rene-meulensteen-set-3054474 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/fulham-boss-rene-meulensteen-set-3054474)
Rene Meulensteen is set to be replaced by Alan Curbishley as Fulham's collapse towards relegation reaches crisis-point.
Curbishley, appointed as Fulham's technical director over Christmas, has been regularly taking training sessions and there is a contingency plan to draft in the former Charlton and West Ham boss as manager in a last throw of the dice to avoid relegation.
Fulham have lost eight out of 10 Premier League games under Meulensteen, culminating in yesterday's 3-0 home defeat to Southampton, which sent the Cottagers to the foot of the table.
Despite signing six players in the final two days of the transfer window, Fulham will consider ditching the Dutchman before their fate is sealed, unless there is significant improvement with their next two games
Most Fulham players were pleased to see Dimitar Berbatov leave the club on loan for Monaco on deadline day, as they believed him unsuited to a relegation fight.
But former Manchester United coach Meulensteen needs his new signings to make a quick impact if the head coach is not to depart before his contract expires in May and three of Fulham's next four League matches are against United, Liverpool and Chelsea.
After yesterday's set-back, he said: "Without doubt, this is the biggest challenge I have ever faced in football. And it is the biggest challenge this club has faced.
"What we cannot afford to do is lay down and feel sorry for ourselves. We cannot do anything about what has gone. We can only get as many points as we can from the 14 matches we have left."
I'm pretty sure they just made this up.
Well Curbishley does have a lot of experience of keeping a small club in the Prem.
Might be a good idea though- Curbs has a lot of experience, and keep Rene as coach. I don't know......
It is frustrating - because I don't think we are as bad as everyone says, but with no luck with early chances, chasing games and naïve defending we are shooting ourselves in the foot, and when we concede we fall apart due to our lack of confidence.
All we need is a couple of wins.........!!!!
Keep Rene in a coaching capacity and get Curbs making team selections subs etc. For instance, Duff - really Rene!
this has been going through my mind all afternoon...i dont want rene to go but i cnt see him being given too much time with the amount of goals we have shipped in.
No YOU are wrong markymark said it is going to be Malky
Quote from: KCat on February 01, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
No YOU are wrong markymark said it is going to be Malky
markymark? a bit tired so sorry if I missed something obvious here :S
Quote from: K33NY on February 01, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
Quote from: KCat on February 01, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
No YOU are wrong markymark said it is going to be Malky
markymark? a bit tired so sorry if I missed something obvious here :S
Look at the threads on this page and it will all become clear. Rene is going nowhere. We have just signed two United players so Rene will stay. What stupid things happen in and around him I have no idea.
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 01, 2014, 11:27:53 PM
Quote from: K33NY on February 01, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
Quote from: KCat on February 01, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
No YOU are wrong markymark said it is going to be Malky
markymark? a bit tired so sorry if I missed something obvious here :S
Look at the threads on this page and it will all become clear. Rene is going nowhere. We have just signed two United players so Rene will stay. What stupid things happen in and around him I have no idea.
I will try again tomorrow I think, so tired I allways fell asleep looking at this thread with laptop on my lap, been a hard day and day beside the match. Good night!
I sincerely hope this ends up as rubbish!
Rene took over & we started to play football again.
Curbishley appeared on the scene & all of a sudden we play differently & start loosing again!
I wondered at the time if his input would affect us.
What the hell is a Technical Director anyway?
Rene has proved to be a bit naive but I would like to see him at our club for a long time. Going to Curbishly would be like handing the reins back to Jol.
Rene knows what needs to be done.
I don't know why we didn't just get Guus Hiddink and pay him what we are paying Rene, Curbishley and Wilkins. He would have done better than all three of these muppets. Fancy putting out that lineup yesterday. We bring in Holtby who has publicly said he hates playing out wide and so where do we play him? And we leave all our wingers out of the squad. You just couldn't script it.
Quote from: Herbie on February 01, 2014, 09:22:42 PM
And why is everyone so anti-Wilkins? I don't get it, sorry.
Do you remember him from his last contract at Fulham? If you did you would understand.
Quote from: Twig on February 02, 2014, 04:37:58 AM
Quote from: Herbie on February 01, 2014, 09:22:42 PM
And why is everyone so anti-Wilkins? I don't get it, sorry.
Do you remember him from his last contract at Fulham? If you did you would understand.
If you are asking do I remember him in the way it seems that you remember him, then the answer is no. What is it that you don't like about him? I was still at school during that season and so didn't go to many games, therefore that might be a reason why I didn't form a negative opinion of football under him.
Regardless, that was almost 16 years ago.
The transfer window surely was the last throw of the dice. We need to integrate and organise the new players and see if we can go on a successful run. The last thing we need is more change.
In common with just about everyone else I expect us to go down but you never know. The management situation then gets assessed in the summer.
My hunch is that given time Rene will be a big success. Hodgson's great escape was lauded but that was 4 wins from the last 5 games including a late Murphy header and escape by a point. In every other alternative universe Hodgson's team was relegated.
Rene, not to mention the new signings, not to mention those feeding in from our development squads, need time to gel.
Unfortunately time is one thing we are running out of.
I just hope Khan is the patient type, as giving Rene the boot and replacing him with Curbs or Wilks isn't the answer...
Quote from: stokesy on February 01, 2014, 09:01:35 PM
rumour has it curbishley to take over from rene he has been taking training sessions and looks to be taking over as rene has lost 8 out of 10 games.thats us gone then
Knob alert!
Quote from: K33NY on February 01, 2014, 11:31:43 PM
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 01, 2014, 11:27:53 PM
Quote from: K33NY on February 01, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
Quote from: KCat on February 01, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
No YOU are wrong markymark said it is going to be Malky
markymark? a bit tired so sorry if I missed something obvious here :S
Look at the threads on this page and it will all become clear. Rene is going nowhere. We have just signed two United players so Rene will stay. What stupid things happen in and around him I have no idea.
I will try again tomorrow I think, so tired I allways fell asleep looking at this thread with laptop on my lap, been a hard day and day beside the match. Good night!
Here:
http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=36281.0 (http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=36281.0)
Quote from: TonyGilroy on February 02, 2014, 08:48:19 AM
The transfer window surely was the last throw of the dice. We need to integrate and organise the new players and see if we can go on a successful run. The last thing we need is more change.
In common with just about everyone else I expect us to go down but you never know. The management situation then gets assessed in the summer.
My hunch is that given time Rene will be a big success. Hodgson's great escape was lauded but that was 4 wins from the last 5 games including a late Murphy header and escape by a point. In every other alternative universe Hodgson's team was relegated.
Spot on.
Further change in management personnel would only be counter-productive.
Rene was brought in to support Jol, there was a lobby to give him the job, Jol was sacked and Rene got the job, performances improved, support was brought in, there were moans about the appointments of Curbs and Wilkins, then there were moans that they had affected Rene's style of play, Rene was given support to brng in some good new players including our record signing - whom we havn't even seen yet, now there are those on this board who support the ridiculous press speculation that Rene should go and be replaced with those who were moaned about just a few weeks ago! What good on earth would that do?
We must integrate the new players as a priority and see where that takes us in terms of performance and points. If we get a couple of wins who knows? In terms of players recruitment we've made the last throw of the dice and will stand or fall by what we have. To change management direction again, in this position, would be lunacy in my view.
I do believe that we can turn the corner and go on a good run but whether that will be enough is the question.
I personally believe Curbishley took that job with a view to becoming manager at some point. Sooner or later, he'll be our manager.
Just another made up story from a comic of a newspaper, lazy journalism. TBH when was the last time you read anything positive about FFC in the press?
Most of the time we're treated with ambivalent disdain. The hacks only write about us when they're reinforcing the generally held perception that if your not one of the top five clubs, if your not competing for the top five places, or not spending £100m or £200m a year on players a season your a no mark.
No one likes, do we care?
Quote from: One Martin Thomas on February 02, 2014, 09:49:40 AM
I personally believe Curbishley took that job with a view to becoming manager at some point. Sooner or later, he'll be our manager.
I can see that he would have considered that scenario and I can see it if either: a) we go down and Rene doesn't wish to stay or b) Rene is a success and moves on to better things. I think it's Rene- deopendent rather than Curbishley-dependent.
Quote from: Holders on February 02, 2014, 09:58:51 AM
Quote from: One Martin Thomas on February 02, 2014, 09:49:40 AM
I personally believe Curbishley took that job with a view to becoming manager at some point. Sooner or later, he'll be our manager.
I can see that he would have considered that scenario and I can see it if either: a) we go down and Rene doesn't wish to stay or b) Rene is a success and moves on to better things. I think it's Rene- deopendent rather than Curbishley-dependent.
It's just as possible that he wanted to be involved again but without the 24/7 stress of being manager. We can't know.
I would only accept Curbishly as manager if he stayed in the office & only dealt with the day to day admin . I would not have him interfering with team selection or coaching. Rene & Kit are more than capable of doing it between them.Kit knows our youngsters & is better suited to bringing them through. Wilkins is not required as he may talk the talk but doesn´t walk the walk.
How long have we got Wilkins for?
How about get rid of Wilkins & put Curbishley in the dugout to help Rene?
After yesterday ,this is all getting too depressing...how about the pub at midday.
Palace and WBA will doubtless pick up surprise points today.
Quote from: JackyFulham90 on February 02, 2014, 10:14:20 AM
How about get rid of Wilkins & put Curbishley in the dugout to help Rene?
just a question by why is wilkins being blamed for completely inept defending by our so called experienced players, Reither spent so much time up the pitch thinking he was a mid field player, Hangeland was plain poor, Burn is young and learning and again Richardson did not have much protection in front of him.
The Currant Bun as well as the Mirror saying Curbishley is being made manager
Got to be true then.. :005: :012:
.... although its rumors... nothing would shock me at all these days, it wouldnt even shock me if someone even wrote Jol was reappointed as manager.....
Quote from: Macedo on February 02, 2014, 01:06:18 PM
The Currant Bun as well as the Mirror saying Curbishley is being made manager
Got to be true then.. :005: :012:
There usually turns out to be something in these sort of rumours, especially when a few sources are reporting the same thing.
Pretty poor from the board IF true
We have to keep Rene as coach. If he leaves then I will think the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Curbishly has been out of football too long. Wouldn't mind a better manager but Rene must still run the team.
The paper says that Curbishly has been taking training. Well that shows why he shouldn't take over. We seem to be going backwards of late.
Not fussed if he is Manager as long as Rene is in charge of training , team selection & tactics. Curbishly can deal with contracts for players, laundry, catering etc.
When rumours are popping up all over the place then there is no smoke without fire. Anyhow Rene isn't manager but head coach
Too many cooks me thinks trying to run the show, I think
that it will cause our downfall..
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Give Muelensteen time to implement a system with the players he has bought, the only one he was allowed to spend any money on hasn't taken to the field yet.
Rene is a progressive presence, and if we get out of this mess then I want him to be in charge.
Quote from: Big Martin Jol on February 02, 2014, 02:29:22 PM
Give Muelensteen time to implement a system with the players he has bought, the only one he was allowed to spend any money on hasn't taken to the field yet.
Rene is a progressive presence, and if we get out of this mess then I want him to be in charge.
:plus one:
theres nothing that could happen with us that would surprise me anymore