The New ROI football manager thread

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Get a few more clubs to follow suit and I’d imagine that bluffer form barnsley will walk away with a bit of luck

We support you stealing our rivals manager

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Not much. That’s why I asked what other players we had on the field at the time of the penalty shoot out

I’m sure Dundalk would be properly compensated.

No need to be so hostile to Mick.

He is a former Irish captain and manager with a proven track record of getting the maximum of limited players.

Is it because he mugged off Roy Queen that you don’t like him?

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He’s won two Football League Championship in something like 20 season of managing in that competition and Roy Keane won one in the first season after taking over a side in the relegation zone.

Roy Keane is a failed manager. Mick McCarthy is not.

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Are there really still lads around on Roy Keane’s side of the Saipan debate? :laughing:

Here is a list of players signed by Roy Keane at Sunderland. 80 million outlayed

Keane’s signings in full:

2006/07

Liam Miller. Free. Manchester United
Dwight Yorke. Free. Sydney FC
Graham Kavanagh. £500,000. Wigan
Stanislav Varga. £550,000. Celtic
David Connolly. £1.4m. Wigan
Ross Wallace. £550,000. Celtic
Lewis Nyatanga. Loan. Derby
Jonny Evans. Loan. Manchester United
Marton Fulop. £500,000. Tottenham
Carlos Edwards. £1.4m. Luton
Anthony Stokes. £2m. Arsenal
Danny Simpson. Loan. Manchester United
Stern John. Undisclosed. Coventry

2007/8

Craig Gordon. £9m. Hearts
Paul McShane. £2.5m. West Brom
Dickson Etuhu. £1.5m. Norwich
Kieran Richardson. £5.5m. Manchester United
Michael Chopra. £5m. Cardiff
Greg Halford. £2.5m. Reading
Roy O’Donovan. Undisclosed. Cork City
Russell Anderson. £1m. Aberdeen
Danny Higginbotham. £2.5m. Stoke
Kenwyne Jones. £6m. Southampton
Ian Harte. Free. Levante
Andrew Cole. Free. Portsmouth
Phil Bardsley. £2m. Manchester United
Rade Prica. £2m. FC Aalborg
Andy Reed. £4m. Charlton
Yves Mvoto-Mvoto. £300,000. Paris Saint-Germain

2008/9

Nick Colgan. Free. Ipswich
George McCartney. £4.5m. West Ham
Anton Ferdinand. £8m. West Ham
Pascal Chimbonda. Undisclosed. Tottenham
Teemu Tainio. £4m. Tottenham
Steed Malbranque. £5m. Tottenham
David Meyler. Undisclosed. Cork City
Djibril Cisse. Loan. Marseilles
David Healy. £1.2m. Fulham
El-Hadji Diouf. £2.5m. Bolton

That’s like 350m in today’s transfer fees and he had a team doomed to relegation in the EPL by the time he left?

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big mick spent 7.355m in his time at sunderland and still managed to buy less dross

http://www.transfermarkt.com.mt/mick-mccarthy/spielertransfers/trainer/599/plus/0?station_id=748

Its because hes limited, a dinosaur and has shown in the past he cant count to 11.

A perfect match then.
The players are limited
The football Ireland are playing recently is prehistoric
The players by the looks of things can only count to 2 before panicking and wellying the round thing up the yard.

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This isn’t helpful.

It’s not Real Madrid he will be managing, mate.

This isn’t helpful

Our players aren’t helpful.

We need to look forward, not backwards.