24 Jan 2018 08:37:31
Not a rumour but question to the Eds. Recent Stoke talk got me thinking. I remember in the past Martin O'Neill was speculated as potential Liverpool manager but obviously that was in papers and we all know how reliable that can be. Was he ever in the frame and if so did it get close? Also how do you think he would have been as manager?

{Ed001's Note - thankfully he was never close to destroying us the way he left Leicester, Villa, Sunderland etc in a mess. He is a dreadful manager and we are lucky he was never given the role.}

1.) 24 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 10:21:00
I never realised he caused such damage. What sort of things did he do that were particularly bad? I was only a wee lad (so to speak) when he was manager of villa and my youthful mind at the time thought that he wasn’t too bad. If I remember correctly he had villa competing for top 6 fairly regularly.

Red Sandman.

{Ed001's Note - he bought in lots of players but never played them and they were all on much higher wages than the ones keeping them out of the team. It is why Villa and Sunderland struggled with money issues as they were forced to pay off a lot of players to get rid. Subsidising wages after they left etc, which put a strain on finances.

His football is awful hoofball as well. Terrible manager, who is good at one thing, he does get his players putting in 100% regularly. However tactically awful and far too loyal to players long after they should have been replaced. Built squads far too big for his budgets etc.}

2.) 24 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 10:52:07
i saw article recently that Sunderland have one of the highest debt ratios in the whole of European football.

that's not from buying world-class players to compete at the top level.

3.) 24 Jan 2018
24 Jan 2018 11:14:56
And the fai have given him a contract extension, they really like punishing us football fans😵.