The Official Next Manager Discussion Thread

[Fulham76]

MOyes wants time off till January and wants premier league, he said it in an interview a week or so ago

Yes I know.
But January will be soon here and money talks.
Would be a good challenge for Moyes! Lol

would be a good challenge for him for sure, however we cannot wait till the end of Jan on the chance he may not get a job in the prem

I don't know, we're certainly doing a good job of dragging things out so far!

[Buffalo76]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

[Alexis]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

[Oakeshott]

"with little to no investment during his last few years"

Rubbish. Check your facts. Who, for example came to the Club under Mark Hughes? Just about the best young player we have signed in the last decade, plus others.

[Buffalo76]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Whatever..... 1500.gif

[Fulham76]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Ruiz springs to mind straight away. How much did he cost???

Berbatov??? Singnificant investment with those 2 alone.

Probably the wrong thread for this but Al Fayed & Khan are not comparable when it comes to Fulham investment.

[bobby01]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Whatever..... 1500.gif

I really can,t believe people criticise maf, he was brilliant for this club, if he wanted to get some of his money back good luck to him, we had more than he ever took back.

[fulhamben]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Whatever..... 1500.gif

I really can,t believe people criticise maf, he was brilliant for this club, if he wanted to get some of his money back good luck to him, we had more than he ever took back.

he broke even didn't he?

[Fulham76]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Whatever..... 1500.gif

I really can,t believe people criticise maf, he was brilliant for this club, if he wanted to get some of his money back good luck to him, we had more than he ever took back.

Exactly. Saved us & gave us the best years we've ever had.

[cheerupjimmyhill]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Say what you want about maf but he made the right decisions at the right times including employing the right advisors. Also selling to a billionaire who seems to have the right intentions but is making bad decisions not maf's fault.

Personally I can't thank him enough for giving me and my dad the most successful times as Fulham supporter and my dad is 83 years old.

[mike_corkcity12]

Rewatched Rigg's several video interviews. He says it is his job to challenge Symons or the manager. I don't think that is a director of football's job. He is adamant that he wants a manager to work under him.

What good manager/head coach is going to willingly subjugate to Rigg?

Rigg is someone who has made a career in football from offering very little. What has he ever won or achieved? What manager would want to work under that constraint?

Rigg has messed up majorily.

[Nero]

Can see why Chelsea haven't sacked Mourinho, no manager wants a job in West London.

Here hoping Swansea get stuffed 6- 0 this weekend and they sack Monk, he can turns us down then

[Woolly Mammoth]

Rewatched Rigg's several video interviews. He says it is his job to challenge Symons or the manager. I don't think that is a director of football's job. He is adamant that he wants a manager to work under him.

What good manager/head coach is going to willingly subjugate to Rigg?

Rigg is someone who has made a career in football from offering very little. What has he ever won or achieved? What manager would want to work under that constraint?

Rigg has messed up majorily.

That certainly appears the case, polishing his ego, will be damming for the club.

[Loz]

Here hoping Swansea get stuffed 6- 0 this weekend and they sack Monk, he can turns us down then

If we somehow get Monk, I will congratulate Rigg and Khan on an ingenious long game well played. And we thought they didn't know what they were doing.

[Snibbo]

Sounds like Pearson and Clarke were willing to take the job. Wasn't the title of the job that caused the deals to fall through

[Wearethewhites]

Jokanovic down from 20/1 to 12/1, Clarence Seedorf enters at 18/1.

[Bradstow]

Another coach frightened away by Rigg's desire to be Mr Big.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11694/10081292/gary-rowett-to-remain-as-birmingham-manager-after-fulham-interest

[Pev]

Just seen it, work with a lot of BCFC fans who would bet their mortgage Rowett would not leave blues for Fulham. Need to stop this approaching other teams managers now it's getting embarrassing

[Fulham76]

Al Fayed never messed around like this.

And left us with an ageing squad with little to no investment during his last few years in order to recoup or even make a profit from the club.

Only a new, newish or no fan would make such a stupid comment. No respect for what Al Fayed did for us

[Ordar]

Ah the Al Fayed propoganda if back out. What Alexis said is factually correct.

1) Al Fayed left us with an aging squad. - we consistently put out the oldest starting 11 in the Premier League. At one point out average age of the starting 11 was over 29, which I'm fairly sure was some kind of record (I can't find the stats off hand.)

2) Little to no investment. Also correct. Between the Europa league final and him selling we had the lowest (dependant on undisclosed guesses) or lowest net spends of any premier league team. This coupled with the aging playing squad, plus selling Dempsey and Dembele, crippled the team beyond repair.

I might add that losing Hughes was a monumental error, which should never have happened. And we wouldn't be in this situation if Hughes hadn't found out that Al Fayed was selling.

No-one can take away the brilliant times Al Fayed gave us getting to the Premiership (after the equally brilliant job Adams did in division 3 with no money). But realistically after the Dodi lawsuit and the Marlet/Tigana debacle, Al Fayed lost the interest he had previously. There were several seasons where we were scraping the barrel for players. Hiring inexperienced managers like Coleman and Sanchez. Let's face it Roy was a massive risk and we got lucky. After that Europa final we should have really kicked on, but Al Fayed already knew he wanted to sell. No ambition at that point