Nailing my Flag to the Underwhelmed by Harry Group (21 replies)
He was England candidate to the media only because he is the medias best friend, they would have loved an cockney England manager thats old school and gives them exactly what they want. He wasn't even considered by the FA to take on the job, Gareth Southgate was ahead of him.
He got a Portsmouth team a cup win and them bankrupt them so bad that theu just struggled to win league 2.
He came in to a Tottenham team and took them fourth after buying all his mates on lucrative contracts, to show he wasnt the next big thing Pochetino came in and took them 2nd repeatedly.
His last job as QPR manager he managed a win percentage that was only 10% higher than Lee Clark has with us. He got them relegated and then promoted with a huge pot of cash spent which ultimately led the team to fall to the bottom end of the championship and enter financial troubles.
Everybody is giving it a massive wankfest over his signing when i cannot point to anything of note.
The profile of the club has been "raised" but only in the medias eyes. And thats cause they run after Harry and give him a million interviews cause he gives them all the gimmicky crap that gets viewers, like hanging out his car window on deadline day. We won 2 games against 2 teams that we previously beat this season who were half on the beach and playing reserves, which id put down to a new manager bounce.
Im not saying that he will be poor as Lee Clark or Zola and he will bring media attention to our club and have the cocnkey papers look at us more favourably. But when he gets us to a mid table finish, there will be a hell of a lot of disappointed people on this forum and in the stands.
We've had TSM who was an actual international manager and gave up managing the top team in Scotland at the time for us and got us a cup win and a few promotions and our highest finish. I would have honestly much preferred him to come back.