purely hypothetical but I wonder how we'd be doing now if Jose had stayed.
I think we'd be cracking on.
I though Riga was great - he'll be back.
Not sure. If Luzon had been given the boot at the end of last season we'd have been scratching our heads. I hold Riga in the same esteem as Luzon. Nothing to suggest he was any better or any worse.
Your right, if Luzon had been sacked it would have seemed a strange decision. However, Jose Riga did have a much better pedigree with his coaching at AC Milan and the thing about Mourinho asking him to coach at Real Madrird. Also, like someone already mentioned, he did get the best and improve some of the weaker/less confident players in the squad like Sordell and Harriot whereas I don't think Luzon did that in quite the same way. Riga always expressed his desire to stay and continue to manage us and he seemed really committed tot the job and it always seemed like he had a plan for the future and an idea of where he could take the club. Personally I liked the way he conducted himself in the press conferences and looking at the teams he's managed (Blackpool, Standard Liege and Metz) he seems more versatile and experienced then the other two managers we've had and I feel like he had a better knowledge of the game and could have a least got more results and 'won' more points if you see what I mean.
Did a great job for us and came across as an honest, honourable man. I was saddened to see what happened to him at Blackpool. I have felt no affinity with our (interim) head coaches since.,
Yesterday was probably one of those games that Jose would have "thrown". As it turned out, with all the injuries and a suspension to follow, that would have been a good decision.
Not keeping him is the worst decision RD has made on Charlton so far. Hindsight an all but if you are going to not fully employ someone who seemed like they were doing a good job and change him for someone else, then it has to be a masterstroke. It failed miserably and was embarrassing in the end.
1. Riga got on well with Meire so no problem there. Good working relationship, as Riga explains.
2. RD trusted Riga and obviously does rate him considering he employed him once again after us. Also proves it can't be that Rigas wages were a certain amount RD did not want to continue paying.
3. Riga got us out of trouble and was doing well with the team in the end, results wise.
4. The players liked Riga and responded well to him he got the best out of a few that were under performing previously.
5. Most of the fans eventually warmed to him which seemed like an impossible task after the Powell sacking.
Thinking from Roland's perspective it really is baffling. He might believe he is a secret football genius and for some reason just knew Peeters was a better coach.
We will never know what would have happened, but we know Riga didn't want to go and we wanted him to stay. I was more upset when Riga went than Chrissy, as I could see how the first might happen - there was a logic to it. It was always going to happen sooner or later. But I sensed there was something wrong with our owner and I sort of felt he would do that to Riga. I recall being so upset and angry when it happened because of the implications of having a madman at the helm of our club, and I ended up leaving this site over it for a few months, such was my strength of feeling and impatience with Duchatelet apologists on here.
Riga doesn't know why he was not extended, I think I do. I think I get Duchatelet's pathetic personality and if you get that, it all makes sense. Some people confuse the strength in making decisions that may make you unpopular, with a desire to make decisions that make you unpopular. There is a difference, but these people don't understand what it is. Duchatelet may be rich, but he is a sad arrogant man. It is apt that he has bought a club with the best fans in the world and turned them against each other and made them apathetic. He needs a visit from three ghosts this Christmas eve. But in reality, we have to put up with this complete ars***e!!!!!
Wouldn't surprise me if Duchatelet had nothing to do with managerial appointments and it was left to some kind of committee.
Ha.
How did you get a foto back from the future? Ok Merie and Hawley have aged a bit but doesn't roly still look spritely? Must be all that essence of the football fan ambrosia stuff he drinks. Hopes and dreams of fans, seen the red from SE London, vintage 15/16 and also the white from Liege, vintage 12/13. Both corkers, packed with flavour albeit with the tendancy to exhibit sour grapes.
On the Riga scandal.... Totally convinced by the stories coming out from Belgium. If you fuck about with sporting values then this shit happens. Roland duchatelet knows nothing about sporting values or corinthian spirit, the very fact he thinks only about the players as assets not artists shows this clearly. Arbitrage belongs in the toxic world of high finance not in theatres of pie and bovril.
Riga is a canny operator, if he really has made that cheeky manoeuvre then it's only the whole RD approach that has made this possible. RD business model is not very different from what Riga allegedly did, when you examine it. You need clear white lines in sport demarking perimeters, you do not need to blur those lines with shady practice.
Joe Gomez sold for 3.5M, 2.5m spent on naby sarr. That's about as transparent, honest and reliable as any dodgy payment Riga made to a player. As in both are totally unacceptable manipulations.
I finally understand the model
1. He was shit in the playground and the last to be picked.
2. As a firebrand Belgium socialist in his tender years, the English football fan is seen as akin to satanic figure.
3. Ability to extract Revenge is the benefit of his financial empire. and it's taking place in SE7 right now
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Lovely, lovely man.
It failed miserably and was embarrassing in the end.
1. Riga got on well with Meire so no problem there. Good working relationship, as Riga explains.
2. RD trusted Riga and obviously does rate him considering he employed him once again after us. Also proves it can't be that Rigas wages were a certain amount RD did not want to continue paying.
3. Riga got us out of trouble and was doing well with the team in the end, results wise.
4. The players liked Riga and responded well to him he got the best out of a few that were under performing previously.
5. Most of the fans eventually warmed to him which seemed like an impossible task after the Powell sacking.
Thinking from Roland's perspective it really is baffling. He might believe he is a secret football genius and for some reason just knew Peeters was a better coach.
A mystery that won't and can't be explained.
He was protecting players to give team best possible chance of winning the games that mattered at the sharp end of the season.
Riga doesn't know why he was not extended, I think I do. I think I get Duchatelet's pathetic personality and if you get that, it all makes sense. Some people confuse the strength in making decisions that may make you unpopular, with a desire to make decisions that make you unpopular. There is a difference, but these people don't understand what it is. Duchatelet may be rich, but he is a sad arrogant man. It is apt that he has bought a club with the best fans in the world and turned them against each other and made them apathetic. He needs a visit from three ghosts this Christmas eve. But in reality, we have to put up with this complete ars***e!!!!!
How did you get a foto back from the future? Ok Merie and Hawley have aged a bit but doesn't roly still look spritely? Must be all that essence of the football fan ambrosia stuff he drinks. Hopes and dreams of fans, seen the red from SE London, vintage 15/16 and also the white from Liege, vintage 12/13. Both corkers, packed with flavour albeit with the tendancy to exhibit sour grapes.
On the Riga scandal.... Totally convinced by the stories coming out from Belgium. If you fuck about with sporting values then this shit happens. Roland duchatelet knows nothing about sporting values or corinthian spirit, the very fact he thinks only about the players as assets not artists shows this clearly. Arbitrage belongs in the toxic world of high finance not in theatres of pie and bovril.
Riga is a canny operator, if he really has made that cheeky manoeuvre then it's only the whole RD approach that has made this possible. RD business model is not very different from what Riga allegedly did, when you examine it. You need clear white lines in sport demarking perimeters, you do not need to blur those lines with shady practice.
Joe Gomez sold for 3.5M, 2.5m spent on naby sarr. That's about as transparent, honest and reliable as any dodgy payment Riga made to a player. As in both are totally unacceptable manipulations.
I finally understand the model
1. He was shit in the playground and the last to be picked.
2. As a firebrand Belgium socialist in his tender years, the English football fan is seen as akin to satanic figure.
3. Ability to extract Revenge is the benefit of his financial empire. and it's taking place in SE7 right now