What next for Sven?

[Guest]

He's now left UAE team Al Nasr after five months and will be joining Yakubu at Guangzhou in China.

.....and people's jaws dropped in astonishment

[The Horse's Mouth]

Hartlepool made the right move. The job he did at us is one of the worst I've seen so I'm not surprised they steered clear.

I'd disagree with that, his first season with us was decent in my opinion. He turned the club around and made us play-off contenders rather than relegation candidates. The panic buying in the summer was obviously going to go wrong. But we've had a lot of shite that was worse than Sven.

[Pride_Of_The_Midlands]

Can't believe we let this guy manage our national team.

It was a Scot who appointed him.

Can't believe we let a Scotsman run our FA.

[MPH]

 

_{Hats off to him.... The fact he keeps getting all these job offers... He made a cracking decision when deciding which agent to represent him... I need his agents phone number!!}

 

[Corky]

Can't believe we let this guy manage our national team.

It was a Scot who appointed him.

Can't believe we let a Scotsman run our FA.

 

Yet we played some great tournament football under him (2004). Should've gone further.

[Soar Fox]

Can't believe we let this guy manage our national team.

It was a Scot who appointed him.

Can't believe we let a Scotsman run our FA.

We've hardly done anything better since he left.

2008 we didn't even qualify for the European championships.

2010 well that was one of the worst performances at a tournament I've ever seen in my lifetime by an England team.

[Dan]

Only just seen the comments I got back from my old post.

 

The bloke's a complete fraud. It was harder to not get some decent football served up with the amount he spent.

 

There was no consistency, no plan, the majority of the players weren't arsed, we've raked up absolutely ridiculous debts thanks to him and whoever sanctioned most of the players he 'identified'.

 

I appreciate my comment was arguably OTT but I am only 20, and wouldn't have seen as much as most commenting (although I was still around for the Levein & Megson years).

 

Nah, sorry, the bloke was a shambles. He had it as easy as I've ever seen a manager have it and the only time he ever broke into the top six was after one game against an appalling Coventry side (which we scraped past).

 

Glad he's gone.

[Dan]

We've hardly done anything better since he left.

2008 we didn't even qualify for the European championships.

2010 well that was one of the worst performances at a tournament I've ever seen in my lifetime by an England team.

 

Yet again, he had it easier. He had the best England side in years and still achieved little.

[Guest MattP]

We've hardly done anything better since he left.

2008 we didn't even qualify for the European championships.

2010 well that was one of the worst performances at a tournament I've ever seen in my lifetime by an England team.

He had the 'golden generation' in their prime and kept getting outsmarted by Big Phil. Hodgson achieved the same as him with a right shower of shite.

 

I'll give Sven one thing, his timing is always perfect, fcuking useless as a manger though since the 90's. ven his Lazio achievements were with someone elses side before he ran them into the ground.

[ADK]

Svens the typical bullshitter really. Very little talent but his ability to charm the men with money has seen him earn millions while achieving very little.

 

All his positions have involved having vast resources at his disposal and the results are simply mediocre. If he was British and dressed and looked like Tony Pulis he wouldn't have gone anywhere.

[Dan]

Sven is everything wrong with the modern game. All hype, no substance.

[Cincinnati Fox]

Sven-Goran Eriksson has been appointed manager of Chinese club Guangzhou.He inherits a squad which includes former Leicester striker Yakubu

Hope he puts in a ridiculously high bid for beckford

Would not put it past him!

[Libertine Dream]

He can take Beckford, St Ledger, Danns and Konchesky if he wants

[Brooksy]

Imagine if he had signed Yakubu on a permanent. Nugent and Yakubu 

[Fox42]

Imagine if he had signed Yakubu on a permanent. Nugent and Yakubu

Yes, 50k a week

[The Horse's Mouth]

After he fvcked that chick who liked dogs, then he went into a downward spiral. 

[Pride_Of_The_Midlands]

Yet we played some great tournament football under him (2004). Should've gone further.

 

Yeah but he's not English.

[SystonFox]

We destroyed something beautiful

[Fox92]

Imagine if he had signed Yakubu on a permanent. Nugent and Yakubu 

 

I would have loved it if we signed Yakubu. I still think Moyes made a mistake at Everton by selling him for so little.

 

Best striker we had at the club since Dickov imo.

 

Wages would have been a problem though, and not just with Sven in charge.

[Kitchandro]

Still don't get the love for Yakubu. He was frustratingly inconsistent, people would have been fed up with him after another 6 months. It's no good having 10 men 50% of the time, you'll never get promoted like that.

[ealingfox]

Still don't get the love for Yakubu. He was frustratingly inconsistent, people would have been fed up with him after another 6 months. It's no good having 10 men 50% of the time, you'll never get promoted like that.

 

I don't think you can have much cause to be 'fed up' with a striker who comfortably bags 20+ per season, What did he get? Like 11 in 20? Just the striker we needed and still need, one who doesn't need 10 attempts before putting one away. If we'd had the Yak this season just gone we'd have been absolutely laughing.

[Kitchandro]

I don't think you can have much cause to be 'fed up' with a striker who comfortably bags 20+ per season, What did he get? Like 11 in 20? Just the striker we needed and still need, one who doesn't need 10 attempts before putting one away. If we'd had the Yak this season just gone we'd have been absolutely laughing.

 

Would we? Wood and Nugent were well capable of banging a load of goals in, but just like Yakubu they went missing when it mattered as well. They have frustrated this season just as Yakubu did that season.

 

He may have got 11 in 20 but that isn't really the whole story is it? it's just one statistic.

 

Like, he only actually scored in 7 or 8 games in fact. So that means there were at least 12 games where he didn't score. And I can say with some confidence that for most of those 12 he would have contributed nothing to the team, I watched almost all of his 20.

 

And no he didn't need 10 attempts to put one away, more like 3 good chances, considering he missed more easy chances than he scored. That's right, we created a hatful of chances that season and he was certainly guilty of missing several sitters. In a number of games he couldn't hit a barn door.

 

I don't doubt his talent but his consistency and effort were lacking. In modern football those are big weaknesses.

[Guest MattP]

I don't think you can have much cause to be 'fed up' with a striker who comfortably bags 20+ per season, What did he get? Like 11 in 20? Just the striker we needed and still need, one who doesn't need 10 attempts before putting one away. If we'd had the Yak this season just gone we'd have been absolutely laughing.

 

He has never scord twenty in a season in his career.

[Guest MattP]

I would have loved it if we signed Yakubu. I still think Moyes made a mistake at Everton by selling him for so little.

 

Best striker we had at the club since Dickov imo.

 

Wages would have been a problem though, and not just with Sven in charge.

 

Moyes had to get rid, aside from his first season his scoring record was dreadful at Everton and the fans were really starting to get on his back.

[ealingfox]

He has never scord twenty in a season in his career.

 

What I meant by that, is that at the rate he was scoring for us he would have comfortably got past 20.

 

 

Would we? Wood and Nugent were well capable of banging a load of goals in, but just like Yakubu they went missing when it mattered as well. They have frustrated this season just as Yakubu did that season.

 

He may have got 11 in 20 but that isn't really the whole story is it? it's just one statistic.

 

Like, he only actually scored in 7 or 8 games in fact. So that means there were at least 12 games where he didn't score. And I can say with some confidence that for most of those 12 he would have contributed nothing to the team, I watched almost all of his 20.

 

And no he didn't need 10 attempts to put one away, more like 3 good chances, considering he missed more easy chances than he scored. That's right, we created a hatful of chances that season and he was certainly guilty of missing several sitters. In a number of games he couldn't hit a barn door.

 

I don't doubt his talent but his consistency and effort were lacking. In modern football those are big weaknesses.

 

It might be one statistic but its a pretty significant one...

 

He didn't go games and games on end without scoring like Nugent and Wood do, and when he didn't I think he did more than you give him credit for i.e. v. creative assist for King at Sheff Utd.

 

I like Nugent a lot but some matches he wastes more chances than Yakubu did in his whole half-season.

 

With Yakubu fitness was the issue. I think playing with us every game helped, as he went to Blackburn for the next season and was doing what he does at full pelt, bagging 17 in an utterly dreadful Blackburn side. The guy scored and scores goals and it really doesn't matter if that's all he did.