So Malky has been sacked. What at an utter disgrace and a kick in the teeth for Malky after the successes he has had with Cardiff to be sacked by an egotistical owner who clearly doesn't understand anything about the traditions of football.
Malky's dismissal is now the sixth of the season so far following Martin Jol, AVB, Paolo Di Canio, Ian Holloway and Steve Clark. Read that again: That's a staggering SIX out of TWENTY premier league managers sacked in 5 months!!
Quite frankly something needs to be done about the way owners in the modern era are treating managers, players and fans of long standing clubs. Clubs that have fine traditions and long history's. Clubs that mean so much to the people involved.
These so called football loving owners don't give a damn about the game and more should be done to stop these money grabbing businessmen from getting hold of clubs before they game and traditions we and our fathers and grand fathers and generations beyond is destroyed forever!!
Another manager gone!!
posted on 27/12/13
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 21 minutes ago
the mackay situation wasn't handled well but he hasn't done very well this season
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How has he not done well may i ask? Newly promoted team who are not in the relegation zone and have been playing quite well until the whole mess came about a month ago. Cardiff task fir the season would have been to stay up any way possible and at the halfway stage they are currently out of the bottom 3. Job well done Imo.
posted on 27/12/13
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 7 seconds ago
Martin Jol - Unlucky, but he just couldn't stop the rot. Fans turned on him so he had to go.
AvB - Lack of goals cost him, couldn't excuse 5-0 and 6-0 defeats on the back of that.
Paolo di Canio - Nutter should never have been trusted.
Ian Holloway - Quit.
Steve Clarke - Victim of his own success really. Couldn't replace Lukaku and came a cropper.
Malky Mackay - Didn't really handle the situation all too well. Results also didn't back his position.
Sam Allardyce, Paul Lambert and Chris Hughton are far from safe. All had a decent amount to invest in the team, all 3 seem to have failed to build teams capable of avoiding a relegation battle.
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Think Hughes won't be too far away, especially if Stoke are pulled further down
posted on 27/12/13
So Malky has been sacked. What at an utter disgrace and a kick in the teeth for Malky after the successes he has had with Cardiff to be sacked by an egotistical owner who clearly doesn't understand anything about the traditions of football.
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That success was due to the thick end of £150mil of Tans money.
I don't like the man and this situation has been handled badly but Cardiff are in the best position that they've ever been in and the owner is still there.
A manager was sacked due to the performance of the team that he manages so where's the problem? It happens all the time
posted on 27/12/13
PS Holloway wasn't sacked
posted on 27/12/13
PPS^^^
D'Jeezuz beat me too it.
posted on 27/12/13
PPPS Lubo also posted it
posted on 27/12/13
Sorry bud
posted on 28/12/13
Agree with TUX. While Tan is clearly a bit of a git, he has spent a lot of money to get Cardiff where they are, and, rightly or wrongly, expects more from them than Mackay has given him. That's his prerogative as owner. They are sure as hell in a better position with him than they would be without. He's done far more for the club than Mackay ever did.
Everyone jumps on the bandwagon of being outraged and shocked that underperforming managers might lose their jobs. Apparently it's a slap in the face to good old fashioned footballing values. Managers must have never got sacked in the good old days...
Football is a results-oriented cut-throat business. Deal with it.
posted on 28/12/13
Struggling to think of a manager who didn't deserve the boot!
Clarke maybe.
posted on 28/12/13
I found Steve Clarke's dismissal baffling