| Club announcement pending 20:58 - Jul 20 with 40198 views | KeithHaynes |
Sorry we can’t bring any more than this at the moment, but it’s only fair we place on record we are told the club are about to make an announcement. It would be wrong to speculate any further at this time.
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| Club announcement pending on 17:09 - Jul 21 with 1752 views | Whiterockin |
If Howe was named as manager would you say the club have played a blinder. Very unlikely I know, just putting it out there. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:10 - Jul 21 with 1740 views | jack247 |
I said you can’t enforce a spouse to honour a marriage. Yes a divorce won’t always be granted, but there are no legal or financial sanctions on someone who just decides they don’t want to be married and walks away. There would be for Cooper if he just didn’t show up for work.
But this is why I don’t like these loaded analogies on simple topics, what was a decent discussion has descended into a debate about marriages.
Proactively wanting him out? I don’t know. It would certainly be mental based on results. Most of today’s reports seem to indicate a breakdown in relations between him and Winter/the owners. Quite plausible they could want him out if a working relationship becomes untenable.
It’s been alleged he’s on £3k per week. Assuming he’s the highest paid, im not sure how accurate that is, bearing in mind we have one of the England GK coaches working for us. Assuming it is, I doubt it’s a negligible amount to get rid of Cooper, Marsh, Margetson and his other staff.
Kind of agree with your last paragraph but think it’s more likely we believed there was a chance someone would save us the payout. Especially given the reported differences of opinion between Cooper and Winter. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:12 - Jul 21 with 1720 views | jack247 |
I’d agree with that, but I’d also include Cooper in it.
At least he’ll get to walk away with two playoff finishes and in all likelihood be able to say he did better than the guy who replaced him. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:13 - Jul 21 with 1708 views | Dr_Winston |
Cooper had plenty of attacking options. He chose not to use them.
Incidentally, it's worth those convinced that we were one striker away from the promised land checking out our win loss rate during Brewster's first dozen games here.
We didn't play tedious, defensive football because that's all the players Cooper had could do. We played tedious, defensive football because that's exactly the way Cooper wanted them to play. It's the England DNA. The same kind of tactical thought that saw Jordan Henderson brought on ahead of Jack Grealish or Jadon Sancho.
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| Club announcement pending on 17:18 - Jul 21 with 1674 views | Dr_Parnassus |
The analogy is quite simple, they both show that you can end a contract with out pro actively wanting it to happen. Marriage, business partnerships, employment - the principle is all the same.
Yes you can go into tiny details and make every situation slightly different, but the overarching principle is taking a financial hit to break a contact doesn’t mean you actively wanted that contract to be broken, but realising in the situation that the other person wants out so badly, it may be for the best.
But you know that, I’m sure. You just like framing in the negative for some reason when it comes to Cooper like constantly saying “touting himself out” even though I’m sure you know the meaning of the word and how it isn’t at all the reality.
All of the rest comes back to the fact that it appears we were attempting to offer him a new contact. This suggests we wanted him to stay. Fulham was reported to have wanted him as number 1 target but didn’t want to pay the significant compensation.
I think it’s fair to say we were holding out for more than negligible cash for his services, which no doubt was the issue with him moving on and the apparent catalyst for the complete breakdown of relationship. If the club were willing to let him go for next to nothing then they would be making that very well known, make no mistake. | |
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| Club announcement pending on 17:25 - Jul 21 with 1633 views | Dr_Parnassus |
Wouldn’t say they played a blinder as such, it doesn’t appear to have been their choice really. But it would be a decent outcome, if not an extremely high risk one to not accept reality weeks ago.
Not how I would like us to conduct our business.
I very much doubt Howe will fancy coming to a club with almost nothing to spend, a squad decimated by loans going back and the best player leaving who apparently has a strict managerial salary budget too.
Those named mentioned early by the bookies are completely generic. I would imagine it’s going to be someone completely untried at this level who is happy to take a small salary in a role they are just happy to be there, as they won’t be getting much backing.
Toshack is probably the main candidate and I know Rangel was also earmarked by HJ as a future manager, not sure if he’s done his badges but wouldn’t be shocked to see him in the mix if so. That’s the caliber of manager we will be in the market for and don’t see anything but a year of relative struggle. That’s my honest assessment. | |
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| Club announcement pending on 17:26 - Jul 21 with 1628 views | Headmaster |
Yes, and the new manager should have experience of making a team better than the sum of its parts. He should be able to make lesser, average players better. That's what Brendan did, although I don't think we'll get another Brendan for a long time.
That's why I say we should consider this Diego Martinez. He got Granada promoted to La Liga and to the Europa League quarter-finals. Unlikely he'd come to us, but I think that's the type we should be aiming for. A hidden gem. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:28 - Jul 21 with 1609 views | Thornburyswan |
Loving your logic, if only life was that simple all change would be for the better!
Going by the various press reports we were up for discussing a new contract after the play-off defeat but Cooper was, at least initially, less keen & wanted to see what was out there in the wider footie world - once the various vacant jobs came & went (Palace, Fulham, WBA to name but 3) amid ever growing media/fanzine debate both parties had clearly come to an impasse & we are where we are.
Can easily see why Cooper thought he could do better elsewhere - 3/4 first team players from last season already gone with maybe 1/2 more to follow & only limited funds available to recruit & replace. Unfortunately for him, at least so far, no one else has seen him as the right man. Going back to the England U21 role would be a backward step but otherwise he might need to wait 3/4 months for a role to become available.
From the clubs side we were clearly not willing to roll out the red carpet, champagne & significantly up his wages & I suspect hoped for a tidy compensation payment once he started looking around - not to be & we’ll see how advanced Winter’s succession planning is in the next few days.
Whoever the lucky guy/gal is to get the job will need to get to know the squad, work with Scott in the bargain basement store & probably accept losing at least 1 first teamer (Grimes or Cabango I suspect) all within a couple of weeks so anywhere around mid-table would be a decent return.
Think you might be more than a tad disappointed if you are expecting an improvement on last season but we can all dream. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:33 - Jul 21 with 1572 views | Dr_Parnassus |
That’s a relatively fair assessment.
Although point of order being he never managed England U21’s. It was the Liverpool youth, then England U16’s followed by England U17’s. | |
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| Club announcement pending on 17:40 - Jul 21 with 1540 views | pencoedjack |
Great post | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:46 - Jul 21 with 1517 views | owainglyndwr |
I bet it will not be one of them off the list . | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:53 - Jul 21 with 1482 views | Johnw102 |
Hughes, Pulis, Allardyce, Pardew any of them would be emotional!!! [Post edited 21 Jul 2021 17:54]
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| Club announcement pending on 17:54 - Jul 21 with 1472 views | pencoedjack |
Id bet very good money as well. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:55 - Jul 21 with 1461 views | Johnw102 |
Couple of £s on Alex Neil worth a punt at 8/1 | |
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| Club announcement pending on 17:56 - Jul 21 with 1455 views | jack247 |
Yes it’s a simple analogy, it was also unnecessary as we both, along with everyone reading, understood the points.
I’ve been more complimentary than most towards Cooper. I’ve stated many times recently that despite my misgivings over his playing style, his results override that for me and I’d rather he stay, which is not the common consensus on here.
After stating this separation was likely down to him making things awkward after not getting the Palace or Fulham jobs, do you honestly think he wasn’t touting himself out? He’s arrived at a situation where he’s leaving his job without another lined up.
Fulham quite categorically stated that Silva was always their number one target. They may be lying, but they did say that.
How do you know they didn’t make it known they’d let him go for next to nothing. They’d tell his agent, they’d tell interested clubs. They wouldn’t put out a press release. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:57 - Jul 21 with 1444 views | Headmaster |
Not sure how reliable. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 17:58 - Jul 21 with 1437 views | max936 |
Emotional, isn't the word I'd use. can't use it on here as I'd have my botty smacked  | |
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| Club announcement pending on 17:58 - Jul 21 with 1433 views | raynor94 |
Time for 20 notes on Young Tosh! | |
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| Club announcement pending on 18:00 - Jul 21 with 1428 views | KGriz16 |
Other forum saying Iain Holloway. Dear Lord.
I'm seeing a lot mentioned on her about investment, can any team that is well run afford to invest in players all the time? I think we're wise with our budgets and I've liked the business we've done so far this transfer season. I'll miss Coopers' loan market players, but let's be honest, did he ever play any to their full attacking advantage? | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 18:04 - Jul 21 with 1404 views | Johnw102 |
Club statement gone by mutual consent!! | |
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| Club announcement pending on 18:06 - Jul 21 with 1384 views | onehunglow |
Thanks John.
Think I will now have a small beer.
next manager is critical but what an opportunity.
Floreat Swansea | |
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| Club announcement pending on 18:07 - Jul 21 with 1380 views | johnlangy |
Gone. | | | |
| Club announcement pending on 18:09 - Jul 21 with 1353 views | onehunglow |
It took us rather too long but we are clean now.
The most overated coach we had,without a doubt.
major opportunity for a new manager who actually is prepared to give a fark | |
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| Club announcement pending on 18:10 - Jul 21 with 1350 views | raynor94 |
He got us to the play offs twice, prepare to reap what we sow, I just hope this isn't going to be a rushed appointment, and we have done due diligence | |
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| Club announcement pending on 18:13 - Jul 21 with 1328 views | 1462jack |
Thought you were coopers biggest fan mate 😉 | | | |
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