The Managerial Sack Race

[spud_gun]

Ageing:

Giggs 40
Ferdinand 35
Vidic 32
Carrick 32
Evra 32
RvP 31

Not good enough:

Nani
Cleverley
Jones
Smalling
Hernandez
Fabio
Buttner
Welbeck
Fellaini

Doing **** all and arguably not good enough anyway:

Kagawa
Valencia
Zaha
Evans

That's virtually the whole squad

Off in the summer

Rooney

[Shaggy]

Brian McDermott sacked by Leeds

[Mattshark]

Brian McDermott sacked by Leeds

Serves him right for buying Matt Smith.

[kingfunk]

McDermott taking yesterday's sacking badly...

[Bender]

Rumours Leeds are now trying to get McDermot back

[Muddled]

The club would like to make it clear that Brian McDermott remains our first team manager. He has not been dismissed from his post as has been suggested and we look forward to him continuing in his role with us in taking Leeds United forwards."

[red g]

Brian Mcdermott always reminds me of Les from Vic reeeves big noght out

[Fosterbloke]

I think they'll surprise a few people with Mata in the team, I know they generally aren't great this season but they're crying out for some composure and guile on the ball in the final third and Mata has that in abundance. The rest of the team is pretty functional but that's all they've ever been, no? With Mata adding some extra kwality i'm quite worried about them nicking 4th off us

Yup they surprisingly lost to Stoke and are 13 points behind first place!

[S-RED]

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is losing patience with Tim Sherwood as head coach and has lined up Dutchman Louis van Gaal, 62, to replace the 44-year-old.

Full story: Sunday Mirror

[Exiled_red]

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is losing patience with Tim Sherwood as head coach and has lined up Dutchman Louis van Gaal, 62, to replace the 44-year-old.

Full story: Sunday Mirror

He's only been in charge for about 6 weeks

[Muddled]

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is losing patience with Tim Sherwood as head coach and has lined up Dutchman Louis van Gaal, 62, to replace the 44-year-old.

Full story: Sunday Mirror

I know that's more than likely bollocks, but boy, would I love that to happen.

Love it.

[Bender]

I think next to go will be one of or all of these 3
René Meulensteen
Chris Hughton
Michael Laudrup

[BobTheCharmer]

I know that's more than likely bollocks, but boy, would I love that to happen.

Love it.

You want spues to get a quality manager? Weird.

[Muddled]

You want spues to get a quality manager? Weird.

Well, more Sherwood getting the boot.

But still, Van Gaal is a short-term solution that they would have to replace with another manager a little down the line. As such, Spurs would be on to their 12th manager under Levy by the time they looked at a long-term solution.

[Shaggy]

Imagine

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/fulham-boss-rene-meulensteen-set-3054474#.Uu1wxDa-AMg.twitter

Fulham boss Rene Meulensteen set to be replaced by Alan Curbishley after Southampton loss

Yet another loss for Fulham puts Meulensteen's future in doubt, and Alan Curbishley is in pole position to replace him

Rene Meulensteen is set to be replaced by Alan Curbishley as Fulham’s collapse towards relegation reaches crisis-point.

Curbishley, appointed as Fulham’s technical director over Christmas, has been regularly taking training sessions and there is a contingency plan to draft in the former Charlton and West Ham boss as manager in a last throw of the dice to avoid relegation.

Fulham have lost eight out of 10 Premier League games under Meulensteen, culminating in *yesterday’s 3-0 home defeat to Southampton, which sent the Cottagers to the foot of the table.

Despite signing six players in the final two days of the transfer window, Fulham will consider ditching the Dutchman before their fate is sealed, unless there is significant improvement with their next two games

Most Fulham players were pleased to see Dimitar Berbatov leave the club on loan for Monaco on deadline day, as they believed him unsuited to a relegation fight.

But former Manchester United coach Meulensteen needs his new signings to make a quick impact if the head coach is not to depart before his contract expires in May and three of Fulham’s next four League matches are against United, Liverpool and Chelsea.

After yesterday’s set-back, he said: “Without doubt, this is the biggest challenge I have ever faced in *football. And it is the biggest *challenge this club has faced.

“What we cannot afford to do is lay down and feel sorry for ourselves. We cannot do anything about what has gone. We can only get as many points as we can from the 14 matches we have left.”