Julen Lopetegui (Spain Manager) Sacked

Mikey_Fitzgerald · June 13, 2018

Weird this

Italy were fine with Conte doing the Euro's even though he was going to Chelsea

Ditto England with Bobby Robson in 1990. Everyone knew he was going PSV following that tournament

Lord Buckethead · June 13, 2018

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Weird this

Italy were fine with Conte doing the Euro's even though he was going to Chelsea

Ditto England with Bobby Robson in 1990. Everyone knew he was going PSV following that tournament

Not really. The Head of the Spanish FA is a staunch Barca Man.
He's seen his chance to boot out a Manager who extracted the urine whilst blaming it all on Real.

There was no agreement for him to go or even talks with the Spanish FA, he just announced he was leaving to take the Real job.

Mikey_Fitzgerald · June 13, 2018

Lord Buckethead said:
Not really. The Head of the Spanish FA is a staunch Barca Man.
He's seen his chance to boot out a Manager who extracted the urine whilst blaming it all on Real.

There was no agreement for him to go or even talks with the Spanish FA, he just announced he was leaving to take the Real job.

Surely he can't legally leave for Madrid unless the Spanish FA agree to him leaving? He's under contract isn't he?

They must have known and are now just doing this to save face. They clearly wanted Madrid to announce it after the tournament rather than now and Madrid didn't want to wait

jolteon101 · June 13, 2018

Yank said:
I took the draw... I think Spain is just way more talented than Portugal, do you like Spain though?

I did fancy Spain before today's new, but 3/1 for European Champions to beat a managerless Spain is great odds.

Lord Buckethead · June 13, 2018

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Surely he can't legally leave for Madrid unless the Spanish FA agree to him leaving? He's under contract isn't he?

They must have known and are now just doing this to save face. They clearly wanted Madrid to announce it after the tournament rather than now and Madrid didn't want to wait

Their statement says they were told of his leaving for Madrid 5 minutes before he announced it to the Press.
He just told them he was quitting after the World Cup so they fired him

Mikey_Fitzgerald · June 13, 2018

Lord Buckethead said:
Their statement says they were told of his leaving for Madrid 5 minutes before he announced it to the Press.
He just told them he was quitting after the World Cup so they fired him

He can't just quit like that. They'd have to either accept his resignation or release him from his contract

If they've got a legally binding contract then the Spanish FA would need to agree to release him from it, otherwise it would open up Real Madrid to legal action

Mikey_Fitzgerald · June 13, 2018

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
He can't just quit like that. They'd have to either accept his resignation or release him from his contract

If they've got a legally binding contract then the Spanish FA would need to agree to release him from it, otherwise it would open up Real Madrid to legal action

Unless he had a buy out clause I guess

Lord Buckethead · June 13, 2018

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
He can't just quit like that. They'd have to either accept his resignation or release him from his contract

If they've got a legally binding contract then the Spanish FA would need to agree to release him from it, otherwise it would open up Real Madrid to legal action

Exactly. I mean he probably gave them a months notice to cover him for the World Cup, but they would still need to accept it.

Lord Buckethead · June 13, 2018

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Unless he had a buy out clause I guess

or a clause that would allow him to go to a Real Madrid sized Club if there was an offer.

He shafted them so they took away his World Cup in revenge.

mmmmsnouts · June 13, 2018

The ingredients are falling into place for a France 2010 style humiliation

BlueStevie35 · June 14, 2018

mmmmsnouts said:
The ingredients are falling into place for a France 2010 style humiliation

Starting with Ronaldo leading them a merry dance like Robben did 4 years ago

mmmmsnouts · June 14, 2018

Megatron said:
Starting with Ronaldo leading them a merry dance like Robben did 4 years ago

This year’s Spain could be Spain again.

Huyton Layne · June 14, 2018

See they gave it to Hierro. Already in the national team set up as "sporting director". No idea what that job would do in a national team

peteblue · June 14, 2018

I think Spain did the right thing. The guy was extracting the michael, and for behaving badly has now missed out on the greatest opportunity and experience he could have wished for...stupid, just plain stupidity.....