Sousa sacked

[Wymsey]

My info is that Sousa heard about his sacking from SSN! Good work Mr Hoos. Non of his backroom staff have as yet been told what's happening to them. I also understand that Hoos will be sacked very soon, although he is currently talking to a managerial candidate in London this afternoon! Hoos is a complete cock - official. Finally, MM is off to Pompey in January - deal done.

Best thing that will ever happen to the club since reaching the play offs last season.

[Thracian]

What a pathetically shallow modern-minded cop-out.

Two months Sousa was allowed - to take Pearson's team, adopt the sort of style he believes will take us forward after decades of tedious, functional or disfunctional shit, integrate new players who themselves needed to acclimatise while having to cope with all sorts of internal bleating, a still-to-be-ratified change of ownership which probably meant the tail wagging the dog, and barely a single stroke of good fortune on the pitch.

Result - Sousa out and someone else in to deal with exactly the same problems of uniting the little-more-than-average Pearson camp within the yet-to-be-proven foreign legion neither of whom will be happy to find their places occupied by someone from the "other" camp.

Our club is in the shit not primarily because of Sousa but because of our disastrously disorganised pre-season when we gave ourselves no chance of presenting ourselves as a capable, confident, co-ordinated unit. And even now we respond to our crisis by jet-setting off to Thailand when we need to be working out wotsits off at Belvoir Drive.

If Sousa made mistakes it was believing he could play pretty football while neglecting to get the whole squad properly fit, believing we could dominate the park without having a rugged enforcer or two like a more skillful Wayne Brown, failing to attend to the details that win matches like corners, free-kicks and mobile defenders and not dealing with want-out players in the camp quickly enough.

He was also ridiculously naive in believing he could acclimatise foreign players in an instant instead of the six months Ferguson and Wenger seem to think it takes but then why wouldn't Mandaric have warned him about that? Cos we'd had it happen previously at the club under his guidance and with equally disastrous consequences.

All those things and more will still have to be sorted by the new man but what does it honestly say about our club's leaders over recent seasons that we have had 14 managers in such a short space of time and only one of them any good - in his guarded, often boring way?

I honestly wonder which is worse - Leicester's Lord Mayor or Leicester City's corporate management. Support for the manager? They wouldn't know what the phrase means. With the sort of treachery that seems to abound at City it's a wonder any manager would want to work for us - except, of course, for the ludicrously unjustified rewards that are handed out for such what invariably transpires to be short-term service.

There really is no soul to our club anymore, no vision and no understanding about the laying of sound foundations on which we can build. We didn't need a revolution at City but an evolution and the manager - any manager - should have been left in no doubt what was required right from the off. But then what fool would believe any statement of intent from the club when those in charge seem to be so shamefully fickle.

For me Sousa did the almost impossible in getting limited performers to play some decent football but bad - even if sometimes unlucky results - sapped confidence,

Sousa let himself down by making illogical team selections as the pressure grew but how lamentable that no-one within our club was strong enough to stand alongside him and sincerly demand patience from the same fans who once wanted the likes of Kaebi, Lackzko and some Scandinavian goalkeeper drafted straight into our team without a shred of evidence that any of them were ready to wear the shirt.

Nothing's changed of course, apart from the names of our latest foreign legion, but we don't seem to learn from past mistakes as a club. "Blame the manager," is such a convenient cop-out yet seems to be our only answer to any footballing crisis.

[unreachable]

What a pathetically shallow modern-minded cop-out.

Two months Sousa was allowed - to take Pearson's team, adopt the sort of style he believes will take us forward after decades of tedious, functional or disfunctional shit, integrate new players who themselves needed to acclimatise while having to cope with all sorts of internal bleating, a still-to-be-ratified change of ownership which probably meant the tail wagging the dog, and barely a single stroke of good fortune on the pitch.

Result - Sousa out and someone else in to deal with exactly the same problems of uniting the little-more-than-average Pearson camp within the yet-to-be-proven foreign legion neither of whom will be happy to find their places occupied by someone from the "other" camp.

Our club is in the shit not primarily because of Sousa but because of our disastrously disorganised pre-season when we gave ourselves no chance of presenting ourselves as a capable, confident, co-ordinated unit. And even now we respond to our crisis by jet-setting off to Thailand when we need to be working out wotsits off at Belvoir Drive.

If Sousa made mistakes it was believing he could play pretty football while neglecting to get the whole squad properly fit, believing we could dominate the park without having a rugged enforcer or two like a more skillful Wayne Brown, failing to attend to the details that win matches like corners, free-kicks and mobile defenders and not dealing with want-out players in the camp quickly enough.

He was also ridiculously naive in believing he could acclimatise foreign players in an instant instead of the six months Ferguson and Wenger seem to think it takes but then why wouldn't Mandaric have warned him about that? Cos we'd had it happen previously at the club under his guidance and with equally disastrous consequences.

All those things and more will still have to be sorted by the new man but what does it honestly say about our club's leaders over recent seasons that we have had 14 managers in such a short space of time and only one of them any good - in his guarded, often boring way?

I honestly wonder which is worse - Leicester's Lord Mayor or Leicester City's corporate management. Support for the manager? They wouldn't know what the phrase means. With the sort of treachery that seems to abound at City it's a wonder any manager would want to work for us - except, of course, for the ludicrously unjustified rewards that are handed out for such what invariably transpires to be short-term service.

There really is no soul to our club anymore, no vision and no understanding about the laying of sound foundations on which we can build. We didn't need a revolution at City but an evolution and the manager - any manager - should have been left in no doubt what was required right from the off. But then what fool would believe any statement of intent from the club when those in charge seem to be so shamefully fickle.

For me Sousa did the almost impossible in getting limited performers to play some decent football but bad - even if sometimes unlucky results - sapped confidence,

Sousa let himself down by making illogical team selections as the pressure grew but how lamentable that no-one within our club was strong enough to stand alongside him and sincerly demand patience from the same fans who once wanted the likes of Kaebi, Lackzko and some Scandinavian goalkeeper drafted straight into our team without a shred of evidence that any of them were ready to wear the shirt.

Nothing's changed of course, apart from the names of our latest foreign legion, but we don't seem to learn from past mistakes as a club. "Blame the manager," is such a convenient cop-out yet seems to be our only answer to any footballing crisis.

You seem to make a very good argument for Sousa being sacked.

[DB11]

Hurrah!

[wurmer]

You seem to make a very good argument for Sousa being sacked.

I drew the same conclusion...