Most absurd managerial sacking you can think of.

Conbhar

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Think it was Leroy Rosenior who was hired as Torquay manager only to be told 10 minutes later that the main shareholder had sold the club and he was sacked immediately.

Was reading a interview with him a few weeks ago where he was asked about this and he said that he knew the chairman at Torquay very well (he had already worked there) and he asked him could he come in and manage the club on a short term basis. It could have been for a day or a few weeks. Rosenior did the press conference and 10 mins later the chairman phoned him and said he sold the club out of the blue.
He said he knew exactly what he was getting into and that the whole experience was great for him because his profile went up and he got plenty of work from it.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

LiamoSail wrote: »

How could I not mention rangers when discussing competition at the top of the Scottish league over the last 20 years?

Most absurd managerial sacking you can think of.

Easy if you stick on topic the thread title tells you what that is

Not one word about the competition never mind of the Scottish League.

Obsessed

messinkiapina

Maysa07 wrote: »

chris hughton sacking from Newcastle.

Yea, he was doing a fine job at the time. Similar to the Adkins sacking.

Donnielighto

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Most absurd managerial sacking you can think of.

Easy if you stick on topic the thread title tells you what that is

Not one word about the competition never mind of the Scottish League.

Obsessed

it was a fair comment for him to make. you seem the be the one with issues

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Donnielighto wrote: »

it was a fair comment for him to make. you seem the be the one with issues

Really so we are talking about a manager that was never going to see out his career in Scotlan as some figure of rightioness to hit out at Rangers

I really frail to see SAF getting the sack from St Mirren would have had any effect on Rangers considering after he was sacked he went to Aberdeen had a glittering career and left. This point of his is garbage because we never had any troubles up until last year and who's to say it would not have affected Celtic more as they are the team that have had troubles on the park in the last twenty years.

padd b1975

Alan Curbishley at Charlton.

Sir Bobby Robson at Newcastle.

Benny at Liverpool.

Mourinho at Chelsea.


















Ron Atkinson at United.

jmayo

Montroseee wrote: »

Jupp Heynckes when he won the CL with Madrid.

And Bayern had hoofed him out before, even though he had won two leagues and they sold the team from under him.

DazMarz wrote: »

Chelsea getting rid of Mourinho or Ancellotti

Real Madrid's cycle of managers has had some gems in it, including Del Bosque

Have to say Del Bosque one was bad.
He has two CLs, 1 intercontinal cup, 1 supercup, finished top 4 CLs every year and two La Ligas and had just one won days before he was fired supposedly because of exhaustion.
The guy had given his life to the club.

Ancellotti's and Mourninho's exits from Chelski are also notable.

I would also say Bobby Robson from Sporting Lisbon when they were on top of the league and after he left he went to Porto where he led them to the title two years in a row.

thebaz

the sacking of Mick McCarthy by Wolves , looks a bit stupid today !

bit of a bogey

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Really so we are talking about a manager that was never going to see out his career in Scotlan as some figure of rightioness to hit out at Rangers

I really frail to see SAF getting the sack from St Mirren would have had any effect on Rangers considering after he was sacked he went to Aberdeen had a glittering career and left. This point of his is garbage because we never had any troubles up until last year and who's to say it would not have affected Celtic more as they are the team that have had troubles on the park in the last twenty years.

obsessed...

Paully D

M5 wrote: »

Lee Clarke at huddersfield, sacked when on the verge of promotion and having broken several performance records at the club (43 games un beaten was one)

He failed time and time again to get promotion. They sacked him and went straight up - fully justified IMO. That 'unbeaten' record didn't include the games he lost in the playoffs either.

titan18

Jol from Tottenham is the only one I can think of who hasn't been mentioned.

BOHtox

I don't think it's necessarily absurd if you have a replacement lined up. It worked at Southampton for instance when they had Pochettino lined up, similarly with Sunderland with Di Canio lined up. With Wolves however, it seemed they had no real plan when they sacked McCarthy and instead they just gave it to Terry Connor after they couldn't find a suitable replacement. In fairness to TC, he was not up to the task at all and never should have gotten it. But that's down to the owners and co not TC himself

homerjay2005

DazMarz wrote: »

Chelsea getting rid of Mourinho or Ancellotti

ya this and Blackburn sacking Big Sam are the two that spring to mind, especially big sam, look at whats happened the club since he left them.

Kiwi_knock

I think McCarthy's sacking was justified, the team had not improved at all in the PL under him. They were in their 3rd consecutive relegation battle. His signings were pretty uninspiring. For some strange reason he made Roger Johnson captain, even though he was found severely wanting on and off the pitch the season before with Birmingham, behaviour which he continued with Wolves. The main fault was that Wolves had no one lined up to replace him.

BOHtox

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

I think McCarthy's sacking was justified, the team had not improved at all in the PL under him. They were in their 3rd consecutive relegation battle. His signings were pretty uninspiring. For some strange reason he made Roger Johnson captain, even though he was found severely wanting on and off the pitch the season before with Birmingham, behaviour which he continued with Wolves. The main fault was that Wolves had no one lined up to replace him.

He signed O'Hara and Johnson, both of whom played quite well in the season they went down. Their squad simply wasn't good enough. They were 18th when he was sacked. They finished last that year and have since been relegated again while McCarthy finished just 9 points off a playoff spot with a rather uninspiring Ipswich team

Moneymaker

padd b1975 wrote: »

Sir Bobby Robson at Newcastle.

THIS.

And the fact he was replaced with Graeme Souness. :mad::mad::mad:

Cantona's Collars

thebaz wrote: »

the sacking of Mick McCarthy by Wolves , looks a bit stupid today !

Saunders has been sacked this morning.

AwayWithFaries

zerks wrote: »

Saunders has been sacked this morning.

That's one of the few mentioned in this thread that is deserved,

smackbunnybaby

Trevor Francis at Sheffield Wednesday. A team that punched above their weight under him and then, when he had one bad season...sacked...

From wiki:

After the departure of Ron Atkinson, Francis took over with popular support from club and supporters. He guided Wednesday to an excellent third place finish in 1992. The following year, Wednesday reached the FA Cup and League Cup finals, losing both to Arsenal, the former after a replay. In 1994, Francis finally retired as a player, shortly before his 40th birthday. He was sacked as manager a year later after Wednesday finished 13th in the Premiership, and many people still feel that his dismissal - the result of one relatively bad season - was the cause of a subsequent decline from which the club has still not fully recovered.

grohlisagod

Paul Sturrock at Southampton was a pretty ridiculous situation too.

Lawrence1895

I can only think about a very absurd Non-Sacking of a manager atm :rolleyes:

Davidth88

Going back a few years

Eddie McCreadie from Chelsea in 77

Got sacked when he asked for a company car after guiding Chelsea back to the First Div.

Chelsea were terrible for years afterwards.

James__10

John Gill got sacked after leading Dundalk to promotion in 2008

Lawrence1895

James__10 wrote: »

John Gill got sacked after leading Dundalk to promotion in 2008

Is he still around? Shels might need him next season...

Leftist

Blatter wrote: »

Rafa Benitez from Liverpool, Summer 2010. Especially when you consider his replacement.

love the revisionism. He was falling apart during his last season and has been found out to be a charlatan since.

His replacement has nothing to do with the face he had jumped the shark.

Neil3030

Leftist wrote: »

love the revisionism. He was falling apart during his last season and has been found out to be a charlatan since.

His replacement has nothing to do with the face he had jumped the shark.

Yeah... guiding a fractious ego-maniacal Chelsea team to a European final and probable Champion's League spot, impeccably rotating his squad through a hellish schedule, all while the fans persistently berate him with vitriol. What a mountebank... :rolleyes:

Leftist

Neil3030 wrote: »

Yeah... guiding a fractious ego-maniacal Chelsea team to a European final and probable Champion's League spot, impeccably rotating his squad through a hellish schedule, all while the fans persistently berate him with vitriol. What a mountebank... :rolleyes:

tbf he's done a fantastic job of turning a european cup winning side into a europa cup winable side. He doesn't get enough credit for that.

It wasn't his fault at inter either.

It's always everyone else's fault.

owners at liverpool
players at inter
society at large for chelsea

It's actually quite incredible. At least he'll be back on the live audience scene soon to talk about 2005 and how he had no money to spend at liverpool despite signing 60 players.

Neil3030

Leftist wrote: »

tbf he's done a fantastic job of turning a european cup winning side into a europa cup winable side. He doesn't get enough credit for that.

It wasn't his fault at inter either.

It's always everyone else's fault.

owners at liverpool
players at inter
society at large for chelsea

It's actually quite incredible. At least he'll be back on the live audience scene soon to talk about 2005 and how he had no money to spend at liverpool despite signing 60 players.

Tempting, oh so tempting... but I'm out... :rolleyes:

DazMarz

Chelsea fan here. I was totally shocked and disappointed when Benitez was appointed.

But for my money, he's done an OK job at Chelsea. Turning a European Cup winning side into a Europa League winning side I think is a bit harsh; Chelsea were NEVER going to defend that title. Not a hope in hell. Yeah, admittedly the defence of said title was disastrous, but Benitez came in AFTER the damage was done there and in the final game where Chelsea needed to win to have any hope of progress, they did just that. Yeah, it was against some Norwegian also-rans, but that's besides the point.

From Day 1, he was getting some woeful stick from the fans at the club and in fairness to him, he conducted himself largely with dignity (barring one eruption, and in fairness, who could blame him). The club was in disarray following the managerial change and slipped away, which said more about the players than anything.

Since then, Chelsea's performances have been pedestrian at times, but the results in the past while speak for themselves. Yeah, Fergie might well have been trolling Spurs/Arsenal on Sunday, but beating United in Old Trafford when all the pressure was on Chelsea was not easy, but there it is.

I wouldn't like him there for much longer as I think the fans are placated for the time being, but that is only due to recent results and by the possibility of God coming back in the summer. Personally, I think he has fulfilled his objectives thus far and it is time to bow out in the summer. But overall, he's done a good (not great) job at Chelsea and isn't getting enough credit for it.

8-10

DazMarz wrote: »

Chelsea were NEVER going to defend that title. Not a hope in hell. Yeah, admittedly the defence of said title was disastrous, but Benitez came in AFTER the damage was done there and in the final game where Chelsea needed to win to have any hope of progress, they did just that. Yeah, it was against some Norwegian also-rans, but that's besides the point.

Yep he was only in charge for 1 CL game this season and it ended up being Chelsea's biggest ever Champion's League win.

Rafa really couldn't have done anymore than that. He had 1 game to win and he did it emphatically. RDM had already doomed the campaign.

pavb2

Win Europa Cup and secure CL spot. Quit when your ahead is the best advice he can take, not that he'll have much choice.