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

[Dribble]

https://www.sportbible.com/football/man-city-sam-allardyce-548731-20230301

"Allardyce was well in the frame to take over from Stuart Pearce back in 2007, having just ended a superb nine-year spell in charge of Bolton Wanderers.

'Big Sam' had guided Bolton into Europe and had the likes of Nicolas Anelka, Ivan Campo, Fernando Hierro and Jay-Jay Okocha in his talented squad.

John Wardle and David Makin, who founded JD Sports, owned City at the time and had an agreement with Allardyce, according to the man himself."

Just imagine how different things could've been! Phew!

 

[M16 citeh]

U know what I would have taken him back then

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Gravy on tap

 

[asgoodasitgets]

It can still happen .
Sack the bald fraud immediately.
I’m getting my zebra pants out for Saturday

 

[aguero93:20]

Thank fuck it didn't happen.

 

[LongsightM13]

U know what I would have taken him back then

Probably wouldn’t have been any worse than Hughes

 

[Barcon]

We'd still be picking the balls off the roof.

 

[HelloCity]

Miles better than Pearce.

 

[RayCTID]

Wouldn't have been the worse of appointments at that time. The only issue would have been it had to be for the short term.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

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?

 

[Dribble]

If memory serves me right, it was Fat Sam & Neil Warnock who were rumoured to be in the frame. Pretty sure I recall Warnock throwing his flat cap in the ring & mentioning City as his dream job around the time... :-/

Pearce, Allardyce, Warnock, Hughes... The best of British hey...

 

[yeseye]

“Fat Bastard Alardyce”

 

[domalino]

U know what I would have taken him back then

I'd be pretty amazed if we rejected him rather than vice versa.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Samaras would’ve scored few hattricks ;)

 

[dublinblue12]

What might have been

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

I vaguely remember going to this when we had Sven & they had Fat Sam. The Geordies weren't too happy with having him for manager at the time.

 

[manimanc]

In hindsight that wouldn't have been a bad call as he was doing alright with Bolton and his stock was building.
He would have done better than leslie and probably saved us a few quid as he was the master of the free signings.

 

[borassic]

I vaguely remember going to this when we had Sven & they had Fat Sam. The Geordies weren't too happy with having him for manager at the time.

Watched that in Leeds with a lad from Levvy surrounded by Geordies, we jumped on their table when the second went in and got chased out of the pub by a load of the fat bastards. Was well worth it

 

[WestGorton]

In hindsight that wouldn't have been a bad call as he was doing alright with Bolton and his stock was building.
He would have done better than leslie and probably saved us a few quid as he was the master of the free signings.

I agree. At that time he would have been more expansive in tactics at City. He was desperate to be our manager as he thought he could do it apparently.

 

[HelloCity]

I'd be pretty amazed if we rejected him rather than vice versa.

"I’d left Bolton and was ready to go into the job and of course the day before it was due there was a phone call from either John or Dave to say, 'I’m very sorry Sam but we’ve sold the club and they want Sven-Goran Eriksson'.