Christ!
Ole, ole, ole, ole… Ole.
Celtic have confirmed that Jack Lyons is speaking to the FAI about the Managers job.
Would he really though? What’s he actually achieved? The way people talk about him you’d swear he’d be the obvious choice as successor to Thomas Tuchel at Bayern Munich.
I’d say a lower to mid table Championship club would take a chance on him no problem. He fits that perception of “progressive” coaches Championship teams seem to be going for now. Belgium, Portugal, Chelsea and Bayern Munich are fairly blue chip notches on a CV.
What would be the average salary of a Championship manager these days I wonder?
Stephen Kenny was on circa €500k a year was he?
Jimmy mcGuinness has it
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560k they said on the radio yesterday
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As of 2020 the average salary of a manager in the Championship was 800k sterling. Wayne Rooney at Birmingham was on a salary of £1.5m.
If championship clubs are offering three times the salary of what the last Ireland manager got, you can start to see the problem in attracting anybody.
It said they were offering 520k to the new man.
Pay peanuts get monkeys
As a matter of interest what do the top LOI managers earn, Duff, Bradley or Kenny when he was at Dundalk.
Duff would be the best man for the job
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Why?
Simply put, this is the FAI
Plus the same again, or maybe more, in a bonus if we make a tournament…
Was good at soccer, the lads will respect that.
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Even if there was parity in salaries, no ambitious manager would choose us over a championship club. The carrot of the premier league and mega bucks is too great.
We are only shopping for lower level guys or fellas on the back end of their careers
Obvious solution is we get Mick back in on a fixed term contract while Duff learns the ropes with the U21s
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Big Sam gets us.
He has won LOI honours with Limerick.
He’s a man of the people.
It’s a no brainer.
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Because he played at a high level, with very skillful players but still makes sure the first thing his teams do is work like fucking dogs and are physical as fuck. He knows how to cut his cloth. Give it Duffer.
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