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Originally Posted by geysir
So where to now for Wes and Anthony and perhaps nathan? He had 1 good season in the premiership but I cant see anyone else coming in for him, such a shame, he never got a fair crack of the whip in his career.
Wes will be looking to go to Villa again, while Sunderland and WBA might be back in. Pilkington will be lucky to find a Premier League club that will take a chance on his injury record. Redmond will be in high demand.
I can't imagine Wes will cost/earn a wedge so with a relatively small outlay someone like Sunderland, WBA or Villa will acquire a player who can help impose a high-pressing, possession game and that appears to be all the rage these days.
Well Norwich down, a feather in Hughton's cap in a way.
Would be a damn good opportunity for Hughton.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/engli...for-west-brom/
Looks like Hughton's set to be named the new Brighton boss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34914013
More on link...Quote:
How Chris Hughton transformed Brighton into promotion contenders
By Rob Stevens BBC Sport
When Chris Hughton took charge of Brighton & Hove Albion on New Year's Eve 2014, he inherited a side languishing 21st in the Championship.
One year on, the Seagulls are in contention for promotion to the Premier League following a record-breaking start to the season.
Here, BBC Sport looks at how the 57-year-old has transformed fortunes at the Amex Stadium.
Managerial pedigree
Hughton's predecessor Sami Hyypia was a left-field appointment by chairman Tony Bloom in the summer of 2014 - and one which backfired.
The Finn had a successful playing career with Liverpool but was exposed in what was his second managerial job, and he resigned in mid-December following a run of one win in 18 games.
Hughton, meanwhile, spent several years on the coaching staff at Tottenham, led Newcastle to the Championship title in 2009-10 and Birmingham to the play-offs in 2011-12 before going on to manage in the Premier League with Norwich.
Another defeat today, seem to have hit a bit of a rocky patch, however they were all decent teams and narrow results,
Away to Hull next, so another tough fixture.
...and a highly avoidable own goal too. Football can be tough and fascinating in equal measure. There are times that you just can't buy a result even if you play well.
After last season's disappointments, it's a notable success for Chris Hughton to bounce back and gain promotion in such style, pulling up before the finish.
If only he's get Richie Towell match fit.
Congratulations to Chris on promotion, after last season's disapointements lesser managers would have thrown in the towel.
Chris isn't one for needlessly throwing in the Towell.
You have a dry sense of humour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
Somtimes it rubs people up the wrong way!:D
A really good read, this; Donald McRae of the Guardian interviews Hughton about the imbalance between white and BAME managers in England, racism in football, his socialist politics, his hopes for Brighton in the Premier League next season and other interesting bits of his life and methods: https://www.theguardian.com/football...wledge-manager
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Originally Posted by Donald McRae
BAME? what the f is that
(ok i see............from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background)
Happy for Hughton, one of footballs nice guys and I feel he was unfairly treated at Norwich and Newcastle
Hughton won the Championship's 'Manager of the Year' award: http://www.punditarena.com/football/...-manager-year/
Few strange things about that article.
There's no quotes from the football league, or Brighton in that article.
The title of the page calls the award "Championship Manager of the Year", but the article text calls it "Championship Manager of the Season"
I can't find any record of "Championship Manager of the Year" on the football league's website: https://www.google.com/search?q=Cham...l-league.co.uk
And, despite that article being published yesterday, the three embedded tweets are all more than a month old, and appear to just be fans, as opposed to official accounts
Let go by Brighton (sacked seemed too harsh a word in the circumstances :)). They probably did him a favour really, he's left them in a much better way than he found them - https://www.brightonandhovealbion.co...chris-hughton/
he'll bounce back from this, with his promotion record, every team in the Championship will be looking for him as manager
And a lot of premier teams. Should keep his power dry until the new year.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Brighton will be relegated next season nothing surer
Birmingham, Newcastle and Norwich are his former clubs and all have experienced volatility in his absence. He hadn't a great season with Brighton but I am sure next season he could have consolidated again.
Some clubs never learn the lessons of others in sacking reliable managers.
I don't know. Sometimes clubs need a change of direction or a bit of freshness to kick on. It can go either way after that obviously. There was a a lot of criticism when Southampton got Pochettino in instead of Nigel Adkins for example.
I don't know if the player transfer market values are accurate, but there's an uncanny relationship between squad transfer market value and the table position end of season.
B&H Albion are 17th in both tables.
I think he'll be leaving with distinction. He's been there 5 seasons, long enough, probably has been their longest serving manager since football was invented. He'll get plenty of other job offers, no problem.
Someone mentioned Hughton to Celtic to me. Interesting shout. Rodgers managed to re-build his career up there. And he has the Irish link to Celtic.
I was thinking Middlesbrough myself.
back to Newcastle perhaps???
To a certain extent that's chicken and egg stuff. Are they assembling a squad of accumulative lesser value or is their position in the league reflected in individual players valuations. But I think transfermarkt uses the teams performances, league and player position to value players to a certain extent. For example, both Dunk and Duffy are valued at £10.8m which is really low to me. I'd have them both in the £20-25m range along with Pascal Gross who has been linked to Liverpool and is valued at £9m and is surely closer to £20m than £10m.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
That maybe, but the end result obtained is a remarkable similarity between the position in the table of monetary value and the league table position.
Hughton has been a pretty defensive minded manager for the most part so not sure he'd be a good fit at Celtic. I suppose you could argue the same with Newcastle and he did well there. That's a good while back though at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Perfect!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Middlesbrough is akin to joining the civil service.
Why doesn't he just take a year of, go climb Everest or K2, solo, with or without an O2 tank.
If potter takes the Brighton job it might open opportunities for molumby and Connolly potter seemed to bring youth through at Swansea but maybe that was necessity more than choice.
Is it natural that a former defender like Hughton will be defensive minded and a former attacker will be attack-minded?Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
I think Mick McCarthy has struck a nice balance managing Ireland in the past. Hopefully he will again.
Hughton deserves to be in the premier league in my opinion.
But I can see him going back to the championship before Christmas. Any club would be lucky to have him.
Already being linked with West Brom: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...otion-failure/
There are probably loads of examples for and against that theory. I suppose it depends on resources and circumstances too sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
I'm not saying the Middlesbrough board read foot.ie, but I'm not saying they don't either https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-tony-pulisQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Hughton works with what he has available - if you don't have the players you can't play attacking football.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
When Brighton were in the Championship Hughton had them playing an attacking passing-orientated game. When they got into the PL playing like that would have brought a 6-0 hammering every week.
Hughton did a remarkable job keeping Brighton in the PL for two seasons - particularly given the fact that he didn't have control over transfers - something that is underappreciated by fans who think their club should be constantly progressing. Hughton is a very under-rated manager. Next season Potter will be manager and if he attempts to do what he did with Swansea this season, Brighton will be relegated by Christmas. The step up from the Championship to the PL is massive - particularly when you don't have a striker capable of 15 goals a season (or two capable of getting 25 between them).
As for Hughton going to Celtic - he would be an excellent choice for them - but I think his attitude will be that he still has something to prove in the PL. He will probably have to drop to the Championship again (possibly WBA) and get promoted. If he is given 4-5 years at a club in the PL he will prove how good he is. The again he is 60 years old and he may relish the prospect of managing a club playing in Europe before he is finished.
I agree worth all of the aboveQuote:
Originally Posted by Jolly Red Giant