Hamann Pineapple
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New EDS Boss?
- Thread starter hihosilva
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Why so 2sips, having never had a break it would give him the chance to work with a much bigger team and learn a few things along the way.
Going from being a premier league manager to managing the u21s just like that - many would see it as a public admission that he's simply not up to it, and he'd know that too. Perception is everything in football and I can't imagine he'd ever step out of the game like that, which is what its effectively doing.
A couple of press stories today saying that Simon Davies is going to be appointed - for example, this one in the Mail (warning - it focuses on his 'Class of '92' background at a Trafford-based rival club): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Patrick-Vieira-agreed-New-York-City-role.html
Centurions
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Lol, they must have spent ages on that article trying to figure out another spot to put"Class of '92" in.A couple of press stories today saying that Simon Davies is going to be appointed - for example, this one in the Mail (warning - it focuses on his 'Class of '92' background at a Trafford-based rival club): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Patrick-Vieira-agreed-New-York-City-role.html
He's not quite got Viera's pedigree has he, guess we'll see.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ity youth Simon Davies Ben Thornley.&f=false
The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson - Page 303
Winger Ben Thornley was another local boy who'd been training with Manchester City only to be lured away by Fergie's personal touch. 'I think I must have been one of the very few privileged lads who had Alex Ferguson round here with Brian Kidd to the house.. Simon Davies, too, was expected - and expecting - to sign for Manchester City on his fourteenth birthday. At the last ... 'Alex Ferguson and the youth-development officer, Joe Brown, came to my house the following night and signed me up ... I think my ...
The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson - Page 303
Winger Ben Thornley was another local boy who'd been training with Manchester City only to be lured away by Fergie's personal touch. 'I think I must have been one of the very few privileged lads who had Alex Ferguson round here with Brian Kidd to the house.. Simon Davies, too, was expected - and expecting - to sign for Manchester City on his fourteenth birthday. At the last ... 'Alex Ferguson and the youth-development officer, Joe Brown, came to my house the following night and signed me up ... I think my ...
The Twigg
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sigh
Bad Santa
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Geniuine question, is this such a bad appointment? I really have no idea what he is like as a coach, leader of other coaches or football philosophy etc. Anyone got any creditable opinions or knowledge? I'm guessing that the CFA hierarchy ( Txiki ) know what there doing and realise he must have a good reputation or made a good impression.
Impossible to say, as you have no way of knowing how much input he had as Vieira's assistant. No harm in giving him until the end of the season to show if he's any better or just more of the same without the aura of being a world class player. Vieira didn't strike me as someone who would really put anyone elses opinion before his own, so I'd be surprised if Davies had much of a say towards the more baffling choice made.
FantasyIreland
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The worry is we will see more of the same but he obviously commands excellent respect so he deserves to be given the chance to make his own way.Best of luck to him,hes in a very enviable job given the existing and emerging talent at his disposal