dorsetfox Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 reading in todays paper that top and co went to martin and asked him to be manager he replied " you already have a manager come back and see me when you dont " top sacks sven and goes to martin and says the job is yours and oneill replied " no thanks " not sure what to make of that tbh
Dan Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 I think the utter inept start got Sven the deserved sack.
VampLCFC Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 reading in todays paper that top and co went to martin and asked him to be manager he replied " you already have a manager come back and see me when you dont " top sacks sven and goes to martin and says the job is yours and oneill replied " no thanks " not sure what to make of that tbh I've thought this since day one, very glad it's been brought up! There was also a quote, supposedly from O'Neill, saying he had concerns over how Sven was treated, I'm pretty sure this is what he was referring to
ajthefox Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 If O'Neill did say that and this is the case (which I highly doubt) then I'll bet it was a case of him being professional and not wanting to speak behind closed doors, as opposed to a suggestion that they should sack Sven.
Guest MattP Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 No. Our pisspoor form since Feb and lack of consistency got Sven got the sack.
renards Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 Wouldn’t rule it out, we tend to forget all of MON conniving. Backing John Elsom then leaving weeks after, only way I’ll be leaving here is if I’m sacked etc etc I'm sure the 'sacking' of Sven was never planned. A replacement would have been lined up. Reading between the lines, Meeting to discuss form and lack of harmony, suggested to Sven that he takes an upstairs ambassador role, Sven thinks about it + gets back with a ‘no thanks’ club then have a dilemma having shown their cards. No alternative but to part company. Sven has got 9m in pay offs, he obviously knows how to play it.
Chrysalis Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 how about a link to the article or type it out.
Jimothy Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 Even if this is true, fact still remains that if Sven wasn't as much use as Anne Franks drum-kit he wouldn't have got the sack.
Finnegan Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 I loved Sven but I'm slowly coming around to realise that most of the above are true. For whatever reason, he lost the plot somewhere around the new year this year and just never got it back. He's got a tidy enough eye for a player and is well enough connected that (wingers aside) we've used and abused him for a good, strong squad. But it's now time for someone else to come in and manage it, someone that can achieve more than mid-table mediocrity.
B52 Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 No, it's a combination of bad results and bad publicity through diffrent channels. Fans forums is one channel speeding the decision. If the owners had balls they would have waited til the system clicked and then be happy in PL.
Guest Col city fan Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 Wouldn’t rule it out, we tend to forget all of MON conniving. Backing John Elsom then leaving weeks after, only way I’ll be leaving here is if I’m sacked etc etc I'm sure the 'sacking' of Sven was never planned. A replacement would have been lined up. Reading between the lines, Meeting to discuss form and lack of harmony, suggested to Sven that he takes an upstairs ambassador role, Sven thinks about it + gets back with a ‘no thanks’ club then have a dilemma having shown their cards. No alternative but to part company. Sven has got 9m in pay offs, he obviously knows how to play it. Whatever Sven is he's not stupid.. He's made a fortune from the game in terms of salaries, pay offs etc... I wish I was in a profession whereby I had made an absolute fortune by effectively 'failing' to win anything time and time again, at least not for many years. Funny ol world we live in.. And I'm sure some other sucker is gonna take him on before too long and give him even more money.. Probably a shitload more. Ho hum.....
davieG Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 Whatever Sven is he's not stupid.. He's made a fortune from the game in terms of salaries, pay offs etc... I wish I was in a profession whereby I had made an absolute fortune by effectively 'failing' to win anything time and time again, at least not for many years. Funny ol world we live in.. And I'm sure some other sucker is gonna take him on before too long and give him even more money.. Probably a shitload more. Ho hum..... There's plenty of people running big businesses managing to do the same you're obviously not in the right job..
cc_star Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 If O'Neill did say that and this is the case (which I highly doubt) then I'll bet it was a case of him being professional and not wanting to speak behind closed doors, as opposed to a suggestion that they should sack Sven. This is obviously the likely scenario of MoN not wanting to be unethical & discussing a job behind someone's back, idiots will read it a different way though, forgetting we've been on a downward curve since our Jan/Feb run ended and that Sven amassed a pathetic 35pts from his last possible 81 (which is what Stringer & Tanner were told) , or just this season he was sacked in effectively 14th surrounded by teams who hadn't spent 10% of what we had and was going backwards. Still, people read what they want to read.
Guest Basildon Fox Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 Results always get managers the sack! Agreed. If we were up around the top of the table like Southampton or West Ham then he would still be in a job. Much as I wanted it to work for Sven it just wasn't. Best of luck to him as he seems a nice guy but a change was probably needed although it may be came a couple of games too soon.
Saxondale Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 I've thought this since day one, very glad it's been brought up! There was also a quote, supposedly from O'Neill, saying he had concerns over how Sven was treated, I'm pretty sure this is what he was referring to I personally took this to mean that the expectations were too high, that he didn't get the time and that he was seemingly binned out of the blue.
Corky Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 No he didn't. If we were in the top six now Sven would still be here.
cj28 Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 What I want to know is, why didn't MON say "I'm not interested in the job when Ian Stringer rang him up. Seems to me he was stringing everyone on. Was it an ego thing!
m00nie Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 What I want to know is, why didn't MON say "I'm not interested in the job when Ian Stringer rang him up. Seems to me he was stringing everyone on. Was it an ego thing! did you listen to the call???
cj28 Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 did you listen to the call??? No. I was told he did not want to speak about it on or off the record.
step Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 What I want to know is, why didn't MON say "I'm not interested in the job when Ian Stringer rang him up. Seems to me he was stringing everyone on. Was it an ego thing! Mayby MON has already accepted the job and TOP has instructed him to say nothing until a particular date. so gaining as much publicaty as posiblle for the club.
cj28 Posted 8 November 2011 Posted 8 November 2011 It looks like personallity pearson has got the job!
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