Eric gates hair
Winger
Best post on him since he left.Can't say I agree about the article being good mind. It's very one sided and almost like the kind of thing Steve Bruce would have written about him due to his friends in the media.
Firstly, it mentions the unwarranted slap in the face of looking at the Nice manager. The bloke has them 2nd in the Ligue 1 table at the minute, which I think is enough to prove he was probably worth looking at. No one criticises if a club has a striker and looks at bringing in one that might be better, so I'm not sure why they think it's so bad when it happens to a coach.
It mentions how he's got clubs really keen to loan their players to him. Firstly it mentions Burstow without referring to the fact that we've then got nothing out of him. Equally I doubt the loans are all because of Tony Mowbray. Clubs will want to send their talented kids to Sunderland because they know they'll get time on the pitch due to our commitment to developing young players. They also probably like the fact they'll play in front of big crowds with a bit of pressure (helps prepare them for their PL career). Mowbray might be seen as a positive but I seriously doubt they send them here just because of him and now we'll suddenly get nowt.
Mowbray did a really good job overall, but from that article you'd think we'd just sacked Guardiola. It made no reference to the problems that have been evident over recent months (other than "aye they've lost a lot recently but it's a young side and that happens"). No acknowledgment of the fact we've been really poor against 3 awful sides in a row. No mention of teams seemingly finding out how to nullify us (double up on Clarke and watch us pass it around nicely, but aimlessly). No mention of our incredible inability to defend a f***ing set piece (how many have we conceded from now?). No mention of a lack of a plan B, no thought of getting the wingers to swap wings, very little overlapping from full backs, scattergun substitutions. Our bad run didn't look like a random loss of form from some kids, it looked like teams knew how to stop us and we didn't know how, or didn't want, to change it.
I'm fairly on the fence about him going. He did well, he's a canny bloke, the players did like him, but if the club think they can get better then they've every right to let him go. The article must have been written by his best friend such its bias.
Spot on . The way some are
Going on is ridiculous ,
Like we have sacked the best manager we will ever have . Some of his in game decision making was non existent .