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Weird one that, not given money to spend.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/q/qpr/7689062.stm

Charlton - 6 months - sacked
Coventry - 1 year - sacked
QPR - 6 months (nearly) - sacked.

One decent season with Palace and the guy is given jobs left, right and centre!!!!   He must have made a fair few bob out of it IMO.

Have to say that he seems to have been harshly treated on this occasion though.

what's your opinion of him as a manager Matt? he was my first choice for us when curbs left but he managed to come in a ruin a solid team who never looked like going down inside 15 games.

quite a record getting sacked from 2 of his last 3 clubs after just 15 games

I have to say that when he joined Palace i was pleased with the appointment.  He was lucky in a way that he took over a team in a false position near the bottom of the table, and had players like Andy Johnson, Wayne Routledge and Julian Gray who were outstanding Championship players at the time.
What he achieved in his first season was amazing, but i felt in the Premiership he didnt have the tactical ability that was required and a lot of his signings were dubious to say the least.

Saying that i liked him as a manager, but he shit on the club in the end, so will never be remembered for what he achieved which is a shame.

I think his level is League 1, where he could get an average team to perform above their capabilities with his enthusiasm for the game.  I just dont think he is a good enough manager to handle bigger names and better players.

V V V Hard on his players, no people skills

teams soon stopped playing for him, and this fed back to the boardrooms

Just another ''foreign owner demands instant success'' syndrome case...

lol, him doing this to you is the only thing we still like about him.

said he wanted to move back north and true to his word moved from selhurst to the valley, about a mile north

think you're right about him being out of his depth at the higher levels but he obviously has some ability, what he managed in his first season at palace was nothing short of miraculous.

definitely has problems with making signings too, some odd ones for you and he had the biggest ever transfer budget given to a charlton manager and failed with that. probably why he wasn't given money at qpr

I think we had the last laugh though.

When he left us we had just been knocked out of the play-offs - 2 years later and we have just suffered the same fate.
When he joined you you were an established Premiership club - now you look as though you are capable of dropping into League 1.

Probably explains things, seems to put people noses out of joint, which is why he gets sacked so quickly.

I know. still a touch suspicious you lot paid him to come and screw us up

That was me :D

I might have known

Surprised he's still been getting work after all that bully boy stuff. Think he'll have to lower his sights now.

PS, QPR, hands off Fergie Jnr, you can't have him, he's going nowhere.