Allardyce was on the verge of becoming Man City manager, deal fell through at the last second...

[Pubteam Lomas]

Hughes signed Vinny

And Zaba

 

[silvathechihuahua]

Miles better than Pearce.

My chihuahua would be better than Pearce!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

He would have been alright at the time. He got Bolton into Europe and made good signings for them.

 

[Lavinda Past]

He would have been alright at the time. He got Bolton into Europe and made good signings for them.

Reading through this thread, I'm retrospectively disappointed that we never had Sam as boss to be honest.

 

[PPT]

I remember a few years ago at the Etihad fat Sam came with Bolton and gave us a lesson. They went 2-0 middle of the second half, he went 5 at the back and that was the end of that.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

This is almost Bay of pigs close to nuclear war biblical proportions this story. I've had to have a lie down.

 

[Corky]

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Newcastle United | Newcastle name Allardyce as boss

news.bbc.co.uk

15 May 2007

https://www.mancity.com/news/club-n...uly/sven-goran-eriksson-apointed-city-manager
06 Jul 2007

Just bollocks for a book, not a last minute change

 

[KS55]

Probably wouldn’t have been any worse than Hughes

Hughes gets pelters on here, probably rightly but…..
He signed VK and Zabba, so not all bad.

 

[KS55]

We ended up with Sven who was OK at the time. Didn't Fat Sam end up at Newcastle not long after that, and not really pull up any trees?

The Geordies favourite chant for Sam was:
”You don’t know what you’re doing.”

 

[Blue Smarties]

Hughes signed Vinny

I was going to say he wouldn't have been worse than Hughes, but as you say, Vinny and Zaba might not have happened.