Wow! Strange one you’d think.
Look closer mate.
That is outrageous.
Any news re premier league managers today
Best thing that could happen to him. Theyre going nowhere this season.
That makes a lot more sense.
There’s news about a Premier League “boss”, as opposed to “manager”. The wording is very cryptic.
“Boss” could mean several different kinds of position.
If this news happened to be completely unconnected to Gary O’Neil, you’d be rightly pissed off if you were Gary O’Neil for being sacked today.
Graeme Souness needs to be approached for comment about this, if he’s gotten over his swim to France.
Personally I’m surprised Bournemouth passed over the chance to appoint Frank Lampard.
I think this chap is the first Premier League manager whose surname begins with “Ira”.
The way I read that headline was that its some fella working for the Premier League who’s been arrested as opposed to a Premier League Manager.
It doesnt mention ‘club’ in the headline anyway.
Bournemouth’s very quick appointment of a replacement would indicate this managerial change has been in the pipeline for some time.
Football is a dirty, duplicitous business.
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Does it?
You think they would be thanking him & wishing him the best in the future with that kind of allegation hanging over him?
That’s a premier league boss as in one of the guys who actual works on the board.
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Gary o Neill was rightly sacked imo.
Everyone criticised Brighton for sacking Chris hughton after they just stayed up and look how they’ve faired out since.
He just got lucky Southampton, Leeds and Leicester were a complete shambles being perfectly honest.
61 goals conceded would suggest he may not be all he’s cracked up to be. But tbf, Eddie Howe didn’t know how to defend either when he was at the same club, but look at him now.
He took over the weakest squad in the division who had just been hammered 9-0 and managed to finish 15th with them. I’d rate his league season higher than Pep Guardiola’s to be honest. He overachieved.
He’s achieved nothing.
Correct it was just luck and what not. He’d have been sacked in November when they reverted to mean.
He wasn’t “rightly” sacked. They’d just shipped a 9-0 beating at Anfield and looked certainties to go down when O’Neil was appointed. O’Neil steered them to an unlikely 15th place and they looked more and more convincing the longer the season wore on. On any objective measure that’s a smashing job and he couldn’t have done any more to hold into it.
Bournemouth are gambling that O’Neil probably wouldn’t be able to repeat or better that feat (who knows) and that they have the next Roberto De Zerbi who will steer them to a Brighton like flavour of the month model club status.
If the new guy does well, it will be seen as a difficult but far sighted decision. If the new guy proves out of his depth, sacking O’Neill will be seen as a very stupid decision.
Southampton did similar when they sacked Nigel Adkins and brought in Mauricio Pochettino. That worked.
But Portsmouth effectively forced Harry Redknapp out and brought in Velimir Zajec and Alain Perrin, both of whom were completely out of their depth.
It’s a high wire act and it’s easy to see how it could go tits up, especially at a club like Bournemouth which is smaller and less attractive a proposition than either Southampton or Brighton.
Comparing apples and oranges by comparing the guys involved at Southampton to the guys involved with Brighton and Bournemouth. These guys know what they are at.
O Neill just got lucky. Too risky to let him at next season or they’ll be relegated.