Big Sam holding talks today to replace manager.

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http://talksport.com/football/sunderland-manager-latest-sam-allardyce-hold-talks-club-friday-over-succeeding-dick

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[Horsfield_No9]

Damn. He was first choice for me to sort out Fulham when the axe drops on Kit.

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Just been appointed at Sunderland

[MJG]

Will be a good test of his management to keep them up.
I do feel deep down that if we were going to go all guns blazing at the playoffs he was the man to get.
Lambert would be my next available target of we made a change.

[One James stannard]

Great move by Sunderland, bad move by big Sam.

I'd bet he's been given quite a big transfer budget

[alexbishop]

Genuinely thought he'd be coming Fulhams way this summer but cest la vie

[ron]

give it a few months and he'll be on the market again. Not that I want him particularly...

[mike_corkcity12]

Allardyce wouldn't want to work under Rigg. The director of football at Sunderland is leaving meaning Allardyce has total control.

[filham]

Big Sam and Sunderland sounds like a good fit to me. He may well take them to the places they should  occupying.
Bet he will be spending big in the January window.

[HatterDon]

Great move by Sunderland, bad move by big Sam.

I'd bet he's been given quite a big transfer budget

just curious ... why is it a bad move by Allardyce?

[Berserker]

Yep he's going to Sunderland. Shame really thought he could come here. Mind you it was a big ask to expect him to be interested in us

[Wearethewhites]

Regardless of what people think about Big Sam, he'd be a real coup for any Championship side, and would most likely get them promoted (if given the right tools and investment). It would also take a lot of money to temp him to drop down, but he was always going to get a job back in the Premiership anyway. Most Fulham fans would have liked him, but in reality, he would never have come. Unfortunately, unless Kahn spends big, or makes Fulham into a desirable club (not a continuous rebuilding project) we need to be a bit more realistic about future managerial appointments.   

[Fulham1959]

Thank the Lord !

[Wimbledon_White]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

[Burt]

It will be interesting to see how he does. It has been even more a managerial graveyard than the Fulham job over the past 2 or 3 seasons!

He wouldn't have come here, he would not drop a division. Harry Redknapp said the same too in his Evening Standard column last night.

[The Old Count]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

You could have said the same about Keegan and Wilkins. You could also have said Tigana would never come to us. You could also have said Coleman would never drop two divisions to play for us.  I could go on.....
It all depends on the proposition you present.

[Burt]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

You could have said the same about Keegan and Wilkins. You could also have said Tigana would never come to us. You could also have said Coleman would never drop two divisions to play for us.  I could go on.....
It all depends on the proposition you present.

You are right of course but for me they are very different circumstances... At that time Al Fayed was pumping in the cash and clearly bankrolling a push to the premier league with big name managers and star players. It doesn't feel like that at the moment.

[Wimbledon_White]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

You could have said the same about Keegan and Wilkins. You could also have said Tigana would never come to us. You could also have said Coleman would never drop two divisions to play for us.  I could go on.....
It all depends on the proposition you present.

Different times. MAF splashed the cash to generate most of those scenarios.

As it stands, Allardyce was the sixth highest paid manager in The Premier League when he managed West Ham. He made £3m a year.

I sincerely doubt he'd take the enormous wage drop to join us.

[Wimbledon_White]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

You could have said the same about Keegan and Wilkins. You could also have said Tigana would never come to us. You could also have said Coleman would never drop two divisions to play for us.  I could go on.....
It all depends on the proposition you present.

You are right of course but for me they are very different circumstances... At that time Al Fayed was pumping in the cash and clearly bankrolling a push to the premier league with big name managers and star players. It doesn't feel like that at the moment.

Bingo.

[The Old Count]

He would never have dropped down a division. Naive to think otherwise.

You could have said the same about Keegan and Wilkins. You could also have said Tigana would never come to us. You could also have said Coleman would never drop two divisions to play for us.  I could go on.....
It all depends on the proposition you present.

You are right of course but for me they are very different circumstances... At that time Al Fayed was pumping in the cash and clearly bankrolling a push to the premier league with big name managers and star players. It doesn't feel like that at the moment.

Bingo.

So are you both saying that you don't believe the club has the intent to get back into the Prem?  Or do you reckon that Mr Khan thinks (or has been told) that a return to the Premier league can be achieved by other means?