Fulham appoint Roy Hodgson as Manager

Rikand

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/f/fulham/7163374.stm

Mr.Nice Guy

Bollocks anyway. Stupid FAI gimps should have snapped him up weeks ago. Bet he does very nicely with them too.

Ah well we have Terry Vegetables to look forward too. :rolleyes:

PHB

Hodgson was never coming to the Irish Manager position. He is too good for it.

eirebhoy

PHB wrote: »

Hodgson was never coming to the Irish Manager position. He is too good for it.

We're better than all the countries he's managed previously to be fair. I'd say we could have got him.

Mental Mickey

My Gaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwd.............

The FAI are nothing but a pack of f**king NUMPTIES!!!!!!!!

El Tel as Irish manager...............NO THANKS!!!??

I think I'll support the Iraqi soccer team instead............

mike65

Wow, good move. He'll save them.

Mike.

Necronomicon

Balls.

PHB wrote: »

Hodgson was never coming to the Irish Manager position. He is too good for it.

I disagree with this kind of talk. Obviously there are people that are 'too good' for the job, like Mourinho and Capello etc, but it doesn't mean that we're destined to have someone like Venables. If more ambition was shown we could have a really decent manager like Hodgson.

Besides, if he's too good for the Ireland job, where does that put Finland?

Mr.Nice Guy

PHB wrote: »

Hodgson was never coming to the Irish Manager position. He is too good for it.

Didn't he hint that he was interested in the job on Sky Sports News? We're one position above Finland in the rankings too I believe so I don't buy that he was too good for it.

Unearthly

Why did we need a 3 man committee when there is about 1 choice left.

Yes that's right, El Tel :mad:

Mental Mickey

Necromomicon wrote: »

Balls.



I disagree with this kind of talk. Obviously there are people that are 'too good' for the job, like Mourinho and Capello etc, but it doesn't mean that we're destined to have someone like Venables. If more ambition was shown we could have a really decent manager like Hodgson.

Besides, if he's too good for the Ireland job, where does that put Finland?

Maybe he got a better pay packet from the Finnish FA??? Delaney and his cronies like to do things on the cheap, dont they............?

They're gonna have to get someone really good after the "Stan" debacle.

shane86

PHB- iirc he made his interest known, no?

Arie Haan is off to Albania. Troussier has taken a Japanese team.

ffs I wish someone would give Tel a job, it means we can stop worrying the FAI might hire hm.

PHB

eirebhoy wrote: »

We're better than all the countries he's managed previously to be fair. I'd say we could have got him.

Those associations had the foresight to pick him out as a good manager before he gained his reputation. The FAI didn't.

Any manager given the choice between a premiership job or the Irish manager position, every manager is gona pick the premiership.

Necronomicon

PHB wrote: »

Any manager given the choice between a premiership job or the Irish manager position, every manager is gona pick the premiership.

But were there any Prem jobs available when Stan was sacked?

PHB

No, but everyone knew he was of the quality, and everyone knew lots of managers were gona get sacked this season.

Unearthly

PHB wrote: »

Any manager given the choice between a premiership job or the Irish manager position, every manager is gona pick the premiership.

True, you only need to look at how Scotland lost 2 managers recently to clubs. International football isn't that high on managers agendas

Mental Mickey

Unearthly wrote: »

True, you only need to look at how Scotland lost 2 managers recently to clubs. International football isn't that high on managers agendas

I agree. The agents go after the jobs/clubs that are going to pay their clients the most money.

Sadly, that's what football(and a lot of other "sports") has become..........a money making exercise.

All the "badge kissing" and proclamations(sp?) about how much they love their club is bulls**t!!!!

:mad:

Raskolnikov

mike65 wrote: »

He'll save them.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Raskolnikov

Oh, and all that talk of Hodgson for Ireland boss was nonsense. He made it clear several times that the FAI never approached him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7117572.stm

eirebhoy

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Oh, and all that talk of Hodgson for Ireland boss was nonsense. He made it clear several times that the FAI never approached him.

That's the problem...

Unearthly

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Oh, and all that talk of Hodgson for Ireland boss was nonsense. He made it clear several times that the FAI never approached him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7117572.stm

That is kind of the point. They should of made contact.

Mental Mickey

I wonder would the FA's old buddy Phil Scolari want the Irish job.....???

Necronomicon

eirebhoy wrote: »

That's the problem...

Exactly. People can say that he might have waited for a Premiership job, who knows what he would've done, but the point is he wasn't approached in the first place. As someone else mentioned, Troussier has taken a club job in Japan, I remember him publicly stating his interest in the Irish job as soon as it became available. All this pissing around with committees is a joke, and it's time wasted while other associations show the ambition to go out and get their men.

DEmeant0r

WOW! Excellent signing! Hodgson was never even on my radar for the new manager job...

Dr Galen

agreed with above. The committee idea had the benefit that it removed the FAI fools (Delaney) from directly picking the next boss but its dragging on far too long.

I think Hodgson will work out for Fulham, he has taken medicore sides before and made them do alright, they might just stay up.

Looks like it'll be El Tel then......

BaZmO*

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I think I'll support the Iraqi soccer team instead............

I actually have an Iraqi jersey so it might be an option.


Looks like Delaney's masterplan to distance himself from the selection of the new manager is starting to backfire.

The firing and hiring of managers these days is done so quickly that faffing around with selection committees and the like is just an exercise in time wasting.

MrJoeSoap

PHB wrote: »

Hodgson was never coming to the Irish Manager position. He is too good for it.

Too good for Ireland but not for Fulham?

PHB

Yes

shane86

PHB wrote: »

Those associations had the foresight to pick him out as a good manager before he gained his reputation. The FAI didn't.

Any manager given the choice between a premiership job or the Irish manager position, every manager is gona pick the premiership.

I think it depends which club. Im sure most managers would rather take Ireland than the likes of Derby, Sunderland etc etc (although at least they always have the fall back of being a top performing championship team). Personally Id sooner take Ireland than Fulham if I were a foreign manager, and Roy probably just got tired of the FAI messing around (I presume the FAI are on their Christmas break. Seemingly Fulham and the Albanian FA dont do the christmas break and actually pull the finger out)

BaZmO*

shane86 wrote: »

Im sure most managers would rather take Ireland than the likes of Derby, Sunderland etc etc

Paul Jewell wouldn't.

OPENROAD

eirebhoy wrote: »

We're better than all the countries he's managed previously to be fair. I'd say we could have got him.

But as soon as a Premiership club comes knocking, its a no contest, he wouldn't come to you then.

OPENROAD

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I wonder would the FA's old buddy Phil Scolari want the Irish job.....???

Absolutely no chance, like saying I wonder if Wenger would like the Derby county job.

semibluff

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