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Does anyone find it to be quite funny that the current world champions rated this man so highly a few years ago that they gave him the top job for two campaigns....yet some of the Irish fans dont think he's good enough for us.
lol ...great point I4E...
Yarp. It's kinda bonkers that people are picking holes in a prospective manager that is far beyond what we could have realistically expected at the start of this process. Perhaps we deserve Venables after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ireland4ever
amaccann are you Maccanovics brother?
Yes but anyone can take anything down too if there isn't a source provided.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Thanks citizen....I do like to be the voice of reason!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by citizenerased
Nope! no idea who he is :)Quote:
Originally Posted by citizenerased
http://www.teamtalk.com/football/sto...113854,00.html
Going to West Ham?
Julien Faubert's translator seems to think so...
Are we to take from this that Trapattoni really does want out of Austria (a story which the Heddled and the Indo have both recounted in passing over the last couple of days)? Or is it merely an empty rumour constructed upon the fevered rumour-mongering going on here? Thoughts?
from http://dev.football365.co.za/news/ha...6208144505.php
Hammers ready to open Trap door
2008-02-06 14:45:05
West Ham winger Julien Faubert claims Giovanni Trapattoni has emerged as a possible candidate to fill the club's director of football vacancy.
The French winger put the Italian coach's name firmly in the frame after being questioned on a French radio programme.
Trapattoni has also been linked with the Republic of Ireland vacancy, with Billy Davies and Terry Venables also thought to be in the running.
Trapattoni, who is 68, is currently the coach at Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg, but for a man who has been coaching teams since 1974, he may well jump at the chance to act as a director of football.
Faubert revealed a French-speaking Italian West Ham employee, who helps the midfielder with translation, told the £6million summer signing that the 68-year-old's arrival is a possibility.
Faubert said: "Trapattoni would be a huge boost for our tactics because we have gaps in that area of the game, on the defending and position aspects."
Hammers manager Alan Curbishley may not be too pleased to hear that last remark, but the possibility of bringing someone with Trapattoni's experience to the club, is not one to dismiss lightly.
The Italian is Italy's most successful club coach ever, having won seven league titles with Juventus and Internazionale, though his last Scudetto was in 1989. He was the Juventus coach in 1985 when they beat Liverpool to win the European Cup in the Heysel Stadium and in 1997 he became the first Italian coach to win a league title abroad with Bayern Munich.
In fact 'Il Trap' is one of only two managers to win the domestic league in four different countries after also guiding Benfica and Red Bull to their respective titles. However his spell in charge of the Italian national team was a disappointing one. The Azzurri bowed out of the 2002 World Cup with an extra-time defeat to South Korea in the last 16 and they failed to advance beyond the group stage at Euro 2004.
The only other man that has been linked with the job has been Dutch coach Stan Valckx, who is currently the director of football at PSV Eindhoven.
You cant blame him. A man of his stature shouldnt have to fight off a bloody challenge from El tel for a job with us
if the fai had any sense they shold have offered Trapattoni the job before christmas
Isn't he under contract to some non-entity of a Swiss club and perhaps they weren't aware of his interest before Christmas?Quote:
Originally Posted by forza rovers
We all said, dont rush get the right man, now we're whingeing because they havent done it yet. The easy answer would have been to get Venables but they have shown they want to get the best possible. Whoever they pick will come in with a far better record than any previous Irish manager so that is something.Quote:
Originally Posted by forza rovers
Eh its actually Austrian, take out a map of your Europe for **** sake, its Salzburg and they are the Austrian Champions.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
I think many people on this board (and elsewhere) mistakenly believe that OUR interest in him is equally balanced by HIS interest in us. (or,even , that they know he is aware of where Ireland is)Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Im not convinced, and I personally think he has as much chance of being the Slovenian entry in this years Eurovision as he has of being our next manager.
Well said Neil .. and they nearly qualified for the Champions League this season .. but for a late Shaktar goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Agree with BV above. THink theres no chance of getting Trappetoni. Venebles is interested alright because nobody else would give him a job and apparently he wants to add another storey onto some gaff he has in the bahamas.
Not that this is anyway related to the delay in "recommending" a manager, but "sources" close to the accounts Dept in the FAI have revealed that the three wise men, Twodonray, have claimed 20,000 Euro each to date from the FAI for their endeavours. Let us all salute their historic sacrifice.
Trap isn't writing off the job anyway.
“Agents have been talking to agents but as yet no-one has contacted me directly to see if I am interested. Nothing is concrete at the moment, we shall have to see what happens.”
Encouraging.
good good
Hopefully we haven't lost him to West Ham. That would be another disaster.
All will be revealed Sunday I suppose.
Why do you say West Ham.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philly
Why do you say Sunday?Quote:
Originally Posted by Philly
Yes, 1 day late on this link but just found it now:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...st-778496.html
Looks like Faubert is the only person talking about it. I honestly had not heard that.
Faubert isn't supposed to be too happy at West Ham, especially with the training, - http://www.football365.com/story/0,1...116323,00.html - maybe he's trying to influence the appointment?
My God, Decky can type as well as post links :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckydee
Can anyone summarise the RTE panel's view on the Gio & Liamo dream team?
I watched it last night while drunk but they were positive about it. Saying that Trappatoni has the CV and they compared it to Venables and that brought about a good bit of laughter. Bill then asked the point, what about the fact that he is overly negative and Giles produced a cracker Well if he is negative I hate to see what he would have won if he was positive and then said if you wanna win a league you have to win matches and if you want to win matches you have to score goals, so this idea that he is overly defensive is rubbish.
Giles also did not buy into the Keegan idea that you score 3 we score 4. Giles pointed out that first thing you do is get your defence right and dont give away cheap goals and he feels that Trappatoni would do that for us. They also said that Brady would be a great appointment. Thats about as much as I remember as it was about half one at night when I watched it.
The Salzberg forum take:
http://www.redbullsalzburg-board.com...st=60&start=60
Hopefully he'll see out his contract there (their league finishes at the end of April) and will be in place in time for the Serbia game.
The post match discussion is online here: http://www.rte.ie/sport/2008/0206/soccer_av.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
First heard of this West Ham link a few weeks ago when searching for trapatoni stories in google news.
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=122999
Its hard to know what to make of it reallyQuote:
Former Italian manager Giovanni Trapattoni is being linked with West Ham United's vacant Director of Football post.
The club are set to announce the new man imminently, and now the 68-year-old former Milan and Juve manager's name has been thrown into the hat.
Trapattoni has a long and illustrious career behind him and is currently in charge of Austrian outfit FC Salzburg, where he has spent the last two years.
Hammers chairman Björgólfur Guðmundsson is knwn to be a keen admirer of the Italian, who has won numerous titles as a coach since taking his first managerial role with AC Milan in 1974.
Rumours that Trapattoni is set to replace Alan Curbishley as West Ham United's manager are thought to be wide of the mark.
The Italian legend is the latest in a string of names to be linked to the new post. Previous names rumoured to be in contention for the job include Franco Baldini (now part of new England manager Fabio Capello's backroom staff) and PSV's technical director Stan Valckx.
2 reporters from the Star flew over to Salzburg. All they got for their troubles was a picture with Trap. No quotes at all. They just talked about how fit Trap was and how the players seemed to love his training.
John Johnson age 90 has just retired as one of the Trainers for the New York Giants.
He still looks to have another year or two left in him.
Wish they'd leave him the fook alone, given how ****ed off he was about the leak last week. Gob****es writing for a sorry excuse of a paper, they probably want Hell Tell in!Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Philip Quinn was crying yesterday in the Mail, for Venables. :rolleyes:
Swiss or Austrian, big deal!! The point is that he is managing a team in a second rate league and if he is Mr Wonderful, wtf is he doing there? Except perhaps that he's got one foot in the grave for **** sake.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
We saw what happened with Bobby R. Give me a younger, hungry manager any day, and I don't mean Stan.