Football Banter

Adkins sacking is a ridiculous decision

(18-01-2013 11:25 )kalel76 Wrote:  Can some explain to me why the media suck up to Harry Rednapp but they never do that with any other manager its just getting too much now.

The media love transfer news and who provides them with more than everyone else ?Harry Redknap .Always got time for an interview through the car window regardless wether he's bought or sold anyone or not .That's another reason why the media love him .Plus he comes across as a genuine nice bloke with a sense of humour .

Finally theo has done it

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Adkins was slowly turning it around and they choose now to dismiss him and replace him with a guy who has never managed in England, quite pathetic

Bet wolves or blackburn wish they had waited a bit now before they appointed new managers

Southampton's owners must have been looking to qualify for the Champions League this season.
(They should try being Portsmouth - we've been in administration for almost a year now).

This is the most bizarre sacking ever in my opinion.

Its just as bizarre as Newcastle sacking Hughton and Chelsea sacking Di Matteo.

Adkins was doing a fine job up to now after a slow and tough start to the season and they have only lost 2 in their last 12 games in the league (the two games they lost were only 1-0 defeats away to Liverpool and at home to Sunderland), which is a great record for a team that is looking to survive relegation. I don't know what the Southampton owner was expecting this season maybe its kind of similar to Newcastle's sacking of Hughton where they wanted a manager that could take them to the next level, but Adkins has been doing this since he was appointed as Southampton manager with back-to-back promotions and looking good to survive this season. Its bizarre, it really is.
This could affect the team in a bad way. With things going smoothly, confidence sky high and Southampton always competing in games, this unexpected news could put the hand brakes on Southampton's progress as a club. I don't know much about Pochettino, but thanks to wikipedia, I found out that he knows something about keeping teams in the top flight like what he did with Espanyol in La Liga. Mid way through the 2008/09 season, Pochettino similar to now at Southampton was appointed in January as the new Espanyol manager with the team in the relegation places. However, he managed to turn it around and lead them to a mid table finish and did something similar the following season, but this season Espanyol have been dreadful and he got sacked when at one point in the season they were struggling at the bottom of the table. The thing that could lead to Southampton getting relegated is if the players don't respond to Pochettino's methods and struggle to adapt to his way of playing. Of course the new manager has time in this transfer window to bring in some players of his own and could hit the ground running. However, its still very difficult to expect things to carry on smoothly with a new manager and potential new players in the middle of the season, although you never know.

I'm surprised with the Southampton owner for making this kind of decision. I was full of praise for Southampton for keeping faith in Adkins when things weren't going their way at the beginning of the season and were not the type of club to make these bizarre decisions. If Southampton go down then Adkins can be a bit smug and inside think that the owners were wrong to get of him and all the blame will fall at the Southampton board for ruining a good thing if things go awfully wrong for them at the end of the season.

Adkins sacking, and the appointment of a relative unknown, is just about the most stupid, ridiculous, outrageous decision of the season.
No disrespect to the players, who have played magnificently all season, but I hope Southampton go down now.

Yep ,the majority of these foreign owners know next to nothing about english football its fans and traditions .Most of them buy a club hoping to make millions out of the fans by hype and false hope .Then when they have'nt achieved instant "success" they panic and then the rot sets in.Watch the players at Southampton over the remainder of the season lose all confidence .

(18-01-2013 13:16 )mickster Wrote:  Yep ,the majority of these foreign owners know next to nothing about english football its fans and traditions .Most of them buy a club hoping to make millions out of the fans by hype and false hope .Then when they have'nt achieved instant "success" they panic and then the rot sets in.Watch the players at Southampton over the remainder of the season lose all confidence .

I say there will be a poisonous atmosphere at Southampton like there is at Chelsea, but it won't be anything against Pochettino as he's done nothing wrong, but directed at the board.

Southampton need to get something in their game against Everton or at least put in a great performance, which will at least may give them hope that Pochettino can carry on the great work Adkins has done at Southampton.

Going back to the Southampton's owner's decision, its just more reason to have clubs in the Premier League owned by the fans like they do in Germany by having that 50 + 1 rule. I highly doubt Adkins would have been sacked if the fans were in charge of ever making such a decision.

Adkins will definitely get a job somewhere else, but he may have to drop down to the Championship, however he would most likely get a job at a club in that division that look like certainties to get promoted into the Premier League.

This won't be the last of these bizarre sackings, more will certainly happen. I say something similar will happen next season with one of the promoted clubs like Cardiff for example sacking Mackay even if he did a decent job so far for them.

An owner is well in his right to sack a manager if he feels it's the right thing to take the club to the next step, it's their money at the end of the day so can do what they please, managers don't run football clubs, chairmans and owners do.

If the new manager does a good job and keeps them in the league and moves them up the table fans will be happy.