How has arguably our greatest ever manager not been able to find a club yet? It's been almost 2 years since Curbs left West Ham and he still gets overlooked ahead of the likes of Iain Dowie!
What do you guys think about it?
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George Graham thought the same. . . .
Yer right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curbs turned down Hull before Dowie was approached. Said he would only consider them next season if they stayed up.
Could be.
After West Ham and us to a lesser extent, where he,quite rightly and well done him, played football to keep a team up not please the TV pundits i don't think chairmen think he is "sexy" or a name that is going to win them favour with their fans. Sad but I feel it may be true.
Also Chairmen may not be happy with a manager willing to start, and win, an unfair dismissal case.
I still think he will end up in a job sooner rather than later but maybe just not what we expect. McClaren has done well in Holland and I think that might open the doors for other English managers in Europe. Curbs for PSV. you heard it here first.
Don't let mrs Curbs hear you saying that, its a long way from Chingford!!
If not maybe Ipswich, would suit him in terms of location and I can't see Keane lasting there much into next season unless they have a really good start.
So, are you going to employ someone who is likely to accept an out of court settlement or someone who is going to sue you for every penny remaining on that contract? And if you do lose in court you also know that you will probably have to pay up all the coaching staff that came with Manager too.
It would be the equivalent of a Manager signing a player on £70k a week who has a history of injuries. Only for that player to fulfill the prophecy. Talking about that, Chairmen probably have Curbs transfer record at West Ham in mind too.
So to summarise AA.....?
Curbs will probably end up joining Messrs Graham, Hoddle, Gullit, Jewell, Souness etc etc on the TV pundit circuit.
Very harsh on Curbishley.
He had an explicit clause in his Wet Spam deal saying that only he - as club manager - had control over transfer policy and then at the start of the 08/09 season their MD sold McCartney and Anton Ferdinand to Sunderland without Curbishley's authorisation.
He sued them for constructive dismissal and, quite rightly, won the case since they had breached the terms of his contract - what was he meant to do just walk away quietly?
I do think a lot of him, but I also think that the perception of the footballing world is that he has ideas well above his station.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have sued. But that remains on his CV and it is for that reason that some clubs may be wary of employing him.
As for his transfer record, his first three panic signings were Quassie, Davenport and Boa Morte followed by the likes of Llunberg, Dyer, Neill and Faubert who all ended up costing the Club tens of millions in signing on fees and wages. His successes were Scotty P and Upson but that does not make up for the legacy he left them with.
He also let go for approximately £8 million in total three players to Fulham - Paintsil, Konchesky and Zamora who, apart from injuries, have been relative fixtures in their success story over the last couple of years. It was, of course, the second time that Curbs had sold Konchesky and he was joined at Fulham by another player who had previously fallen out with Curbs in the shape of Danny Murphy.
As has already been said a club like us or Ipswich is tailor made for Curbs providing he goes back to doing what he does best. And that is building a team bit by bit rather than trying to buy one. But will anyone take that chance?
He was awful. I understand your love for him at this club but at west ham he was awful. Yes they broke the contract by doing deals themselves but after the crock of shite he brought in and getting rid of some of our better players ie Zamora and konchesky you can hardly blame them for wanting to get involved