Had time for him because of his approach, if not for his personality. He is a winner who demands success and 100% commitment otherwise he throws you out the door, the club badly needed someone like that in charge at the time and probably still does really.
Made too many errors in the transfer market which ultimately cost him dear. It was definitely the right decision to sack him, just it wasn't the right decision to do it before even sounding out a replacement. That first season was decent even if it did have a few horrible blips which showed his limitations (away at Chelsea, the Anfield derby, the 1 win in about 10 during the autumn period). I'm also convinced though that we'd have still ended up finishing top half had we instead kept him last year but he simply didn't deserve anymore time.
His and Walsh's scattergun policy has undoubtedly done consierable damage the club, the pair of them have to be regarded as massive failures because of that and we're far better now having gotten rid of both. Hasta la vista, don't care what becomes of either now.
In conclusion he was mostly good, for a bit at least, but when things got bad it went VERY bad and his own ego and lack of connection with the fanbase made it impossible for him to turn things around. Fell on his own sword.
However I will say this, he is undoubtedly a better manager than Roberto Martinez and records back that up. He's never gotten a side relegated and no team he's ever managed that had 25-goal a season striker in it would have twice finished bottom half whilst conceding a stupid amount of goals. Morons like davek and others who like to spread this myth that his reign was a disaster of Chernobyl proportions whilst RM was some sort of genius who could have led us to the league title need to actually go to games and learn about what it is they're talking about. And don't bother replying to argue the point you're on ignore.
Made too many errors in the transfer market which ultimately cost him dear. It was definitely the right decision to sack him, just it wasn't the right decision to do it before even sounding out a replacement. That first season was decent even if it did have a few horrible blips which showed his limitations (away at Chelsea, the Anfield derby, the 1 win in about 10 during the autumn period). I'm also convinced though that we'd have still ended up finishing top half had we instead kept him last year but he simply didn't deserve anymore time.
His and Walsh's scattergun policy has undoubtedly done consierable damage the club, the pair of them have to be regarded as massive failures because of that and we're far better now having gotten rid of both. Hasta la vista, don't care what becomes of either now.
In conclusion he was mostly good, for a bit at least, but when things got bad it went VERY bad and his own ego and lack of connection with the fanbase made it impossible for him to turn things around. Fell on his own sword.
However I will say this, he is undoubtedly a better manager than Roberto Martinez and records back that up. He's never gotten a side relegated and no team he's ever managed that had 25-goal a season striker in it would have twice finished bottom half whilst conceding a stupid amount of goals. Morons like davek and others who like to spread this myth that his reign was a disaster of Chernobyl proportions whilst RM was some sort of genius who could have led us to the league title need to actually go to games and learn about what it is they're talking about. And don't bother replying to argue the point you're on ignore.
