Pardew interviewed on SSN said that he's at club that has a stable boardroom and that he's not had one of those for a long time.
Obvoiusly West Ham, but by that statement inferring to us.
Smug fecker, nearly kicked the plasma in at the sight of his face.
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He's started talking rubbish particularly early this time.
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FFS, even *you're* more exciting than Curbs. . . . .
i used to love his post match interviews....
Pardew needs to take some responsibility for the shitheap he left our club in.
Despite my bitterness towards the man because of last season, the way i see it is all 3 main clubs hes managed Reading West ham and then us he has done poorly with and got away with it. Now if that was the business world the company (Club in this sense) would either make him pick up all of the debt he created or not have employed him in the first instance as he had rubbish records with other clubs. However he walks scott free, a few months later joins a complete mickey mouse team (saints). Now although i dont deny him the want to work and to accept a obviously good offer from saints i just feel that in football these sort of things are never done fairly and it seems that the fans are the ones loosing out every time.
Now in the business world he wouldnt have been offered the job as he had no reocords of being any good at any team am i wrong also if you wernt to loose your job because of mistakes made you would recieve punishment for your actions but it appears if you are football manager (not a verygood one at that) you dont have to go through everyhting that the rest of us do when making mistakes in the office am i wrong?
He'll blame anyone and anything rather than admit his faults....egotistical arrogant twat.
Pardew talks a good talk, I was convinced in the forum in Kent just after his appointment and if he follows what he says,he could be a good thing for Southampton,however our experience is that he says one thing and does the opposite - "You need tough seasoned veterans to get out of The Championship" - he goes and buys young inexperienced players.
As for board room stability, he is probably right,West Ham and ourselves showed anything less than stability during his time.
Pardew acquiesced in the sale of Andy Reid. If he'd put up resistance the board would not have sold him - after all they then signed Andy Gray at substantial cost at Pardew's insistence - but Reid didn't suit the way Pardew wanted to play.
Spot on. Trouble Ru1986 is that they (the managers) know that there isn't a great deal of what they(club board members) consider "proven" upper tier managers and so they get away with murder. They know they will get another crack of the whip whatever there previous club results were.
The sale of Andy Reid, was more than just him going, it signalled the club had no fight to me, we lacked a creative midfield player that we have never replaced, or been able to . A few seasons before/past we had players like Smirtin, Parker, Reid, Bowyer, Kinsella etc etc...... ball winners and goal scorers.
As others have stated we bought players that the board must have sanctioned that were overpriced and over rated, probably the only ones that would have come !
In recent seasons, the team looks unbalanced, and lacked players that would provide the forwards with the service they need.
Why he could not persuade Reid to stay till the summer I have no idea, we may have even got more money for him! I appreciate you cannot have players in a team that do not want to play for you, but is that not what a manager is there for! man management.
We lost our way, our talisman, and our confidence all in the sale of one player IMO.
Pards mucked about with the selection so much I'm sure the boys were just bewildered with him.
I just cant see how you can employ someone (in or out of football) who has just come from a job where he failed misarbly. If that was me as an employer at saints and i had seen that he had just relegated a team who were once a premiership club (and not a yo-yo club like west brom a propper prem club) i wouldnt have employed him if you would have paid me to do so. I just dont see how that can be seen as a good employment as a company Saints cant see it as a good appointment but they all seemed happy on SS news.
Strange concept one rule for footie managers one rule for the rest of the world football fan or not.
At least he's falling through the divisions even faster than us.
This same approach was undertaken at WHAm were he insisted on playing three up front, but although there was a terrible support for them many of his strikers could assist each other. This fundamental blindness to team construction is only going to get worse in his career.
A lot of people on here had Reid to go to Sunderland before the season started. Surprised that it didn't happen to January.