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

[jimharri]

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

It's staggering, the stick he still gets on here. Was it the right thing to do at the time, to move him on. Yes, we were underperforming at that time. It was handled poorly, though. Was he the worst manager we've ever had? Not even close, but the flak he gets on here would make you think he was.

 

[KS55]

The autumn just before he was sacked we conceded 3 goals apiece to (iirc) Spurs, Burnley, Bolton and Sunderland. And that after spending a fair amount on defenders.

 

[trevorriley]

big sam "shud up" !

 

[jimbopm]

Coming off his spell at Bolton, Allardyce was one of the best manager prospects out there for a club like City to target. I wouldn't have opposed him coming here.

 

[jamielowndes]

We got Sven instead, so hardly a big loss.

I always wondered what would have happened if Sven had been given time under the Abu Dhabi ownership rather than Shinawatra while he was getting his assets frozen and generally being a war criminal and a fuckwit.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

How many Champion's Leagues we would have by now.

 

[jaiguruKun]

His stock was high at the time, wouldn't have been a bad appointment

 

[jimharri]

Coming off his spell at Bolton, Allardyce was one of the best manager prospects out there for a club like City to target. I wouldn't have opposed him coming here.

Correct. People are forgetting, we weren't a very good side back then. And we didn't have the owners (and consequently, the funds) that we had access to after the takeover. We weren't an attractive proposition to top drawer managers back then.

 

[BELLAMYS END]

100% would have had him at city back then, he worked wonders with Bolton. Thinking back, Hughes had a very similar profile after managing Blackburn and Wales, not bad choices for where we were at all.

 

[East Level 2]

Sam played some good stuff at Bolton when he had JJ Okocha and Djorkief (sp). And almost anybody would have been an improvement after Pearce.