The Premiership discussion thread

New thread. old one archived here.

Rioch was so good he lasted a season. You telling me Bergkamp signed for Rioch or the scum? Spin it how you like he was a shit manager...just like the shit manager you posted up. Yep your club has 'em as well.

Love the way everyone buys this Harry shit about him being the best thing for us. I've got alot to thank him for but the bloke is a fucking joke with his constant shite in the press, his lack of tactical nous and his love of the coin.

The club dropped the ball in the last 3 transfer windows but the buck has to stop with Redknapp. He took 2 months off being our manager during the run-in and he's paid the price.

Moyes is so much better than redknapp.

Here are my thoughts, from a slightly different point of view: a business point of a view.

Firstly, I am going to congratulate Mr Levy on a really smart move. Lets not forget that Mr Levy is a very good businessman.

It is summed up in one line from My Levy's PR statement: 'Harry arrived at the Club at a time when his experience and approach was exactly what was needed.'

Read that line. Then read it again.

My Levy had a strategy and My Levy has implemented that strategy. When he employed Harry, he knew it was not a long term placement. It's called the Peter Principle.

"The principle holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Eventually they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence." "Managing upward" is the concept of a subordinate finding ways to subtly "manage" superiors in order to limit the damage that they end up doing."

"In an organizational structure, the Peter Principle's practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job; i.e., members of an hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence. That level is the employee's "level of incompetence" where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching their career's ceiling in an organization.

The employee's incompetence is not necessarily a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult. It may be that the new position requires different work skills which the employee may not possess. For example, an engineer with great technical skill might get promoted to project manager, only to discover he lacks the interpersonal skills required to lead a team."

Harry had reached his limit. He seems to think he has more to offer our Club, but with one year left on his contract, I think Mr Levy knew he didn't have any more to give. His recent negative attitude and run of results shown that he was now being destructive, rather than productive.

read earlier he's who we want, don't see why though. achieved nothing and was seemingly just a figurehead for germany.

just like arsenal kept fabregas and united kept ronaldo...

who said he wasn't good enough? he played himself over the england job and gave up managing the team for our run-in. it cost us. what do you do to someone who does that? give him a bigger contract? would you fuck...

and what's this about the goons limited resources? you're in dreamland mate...you have plenty but the board would rather pocket the money rather than spend it. lets see if wenger sticks to his delusional grand plan to train a bunch of talented kids to glory this season

already said that run was shocking! hardly a blind eye.

Not even left em in anywhere near as good a state as he's making out either

Friedel - 1 or 2 seasons left
King - retired
Gallas - aging, 1 or 2 seasons left?
Bassong, Kaboul - not good enough. Dawson only decent CB with a future

Fullbacks - no real cover for BAE or Walker, Corluka allowed to leave in Jan.

Centre-mid - OK here, although Parker is 31.

Wingers / AMs - no cover for Lennon, Modric wants to leave, Bale and VDV will want away if they fail again next season.

Forwards - can they afford to sign Adebayor permanently? Chose Saha (old, injury-prone) in Jan, when Cisse and Jelavic were going for < £10m

Big rebuilding job needed

Kaboul is our best defender, quality player