Rowett Sacked

[cityfanlee23]

Birmingham City have sacked manager Gary Rowett after more than two years in charge of the Championship club.

Blues are seventh in the table following their 2-1 win over Ipswich Town on Tuesday.

Former City defender Rowett, 42, who left Burton Albion to replace Lee Clark in October 2014, won 42 of his 106 games as manager at St Andrew's.

Ex-West Ham and Watford boss Gianfranco Zola is believed to be high on Blues' list of potential replacements.

Rowett's departure, along with assistant boss Kevin Summerfield and coaches Kevin Poole, Darren Robinson and Mark Sale, comes in the wake of Birmingham's Chinese owners Trillion Trophy Asia Limited making three new boardroom appointments on Monday.

Wenqing Zhao, Chun Kong Yiu and Zhu Kai, all existing directors of Hong Kong-based Birmingham International Holdings, have formed a new five-man board at St Andrew's, alongside existing directors Panos Pavlakis and Victor Ma.

"Such a parting of the ways is always difficult," Pavlakis said.

 

Full story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38316110

 

 

7th in the league with no money having taken them from probable relegation, 3 points off 3rd and they sack rowett to replace him with Zola it seems.

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

Chinese just buying football clubs because they don't trust keeping money in their own country in case the government turns on them. They then hire some drip to run it who coincidently knows nothing about football and goes power mad. Same thing happened at Wolves.

[Stadt]

Idiots

 

 

What has Zola ever done in his managerial career aside from being utterly dog shit?

[ealingfox]

In other news, the UK has voted to leave the EU in a historic referendum.

[boots60]

Gary Rowett was Taylors best/only good signing.

[Mark_w]

11 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

In other news, the UK has voted to leave the EU in a historic referendum.

Is the joke that this was posted very late, or that it's an equally inexplicable decision?

[MPH]

PEARSON

[Fox92]

As discussed in the Championship thread, Zola appointed.

[bovril]

Classy defender. Still can't believe he missed that chance against Red Star.

[Soar Fox]

He'all get another job easily enough very good manager at that level.

 

IF we got relegated I would definitely have him in as manager. 

[Manwell Pablo]

10 hours ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

He'all get another job easily enough very good manager at that level.

 

IF we got relegated I would definitely have him in as manager. 

 

I'd have him anyway to be honest, if Claudio were to get the boot, ticks all the boxes for me. 

[Guest CityFan 06]

I think he will go far, given the job he's done at Birmingham. Like Monk, I can see Rowett managing in the Premier League in the future.

[Tuna]

@Gianfranco Zola