Tinkerman gets Juve job.

[superfrank]

I think Smertin was an Abramovich signing. While Ranieri failed with the piles of cash I thought he did well to get Chelsea into the CL when they had hit hard financial times juust before Abramovich came in.

Smertin was an Abramovich signing. He was signed from CSKA Moscow, iirc, where he owns the company that sponsored them at the time.

I do think he did well in the 2002/03 season where we needed to qualify for the CL on the last day or face turning into the next Leeds. However, I honestly feel with all that money at his disposal, a better manager would've won the league in 2003/04, no matter how good Arsenal were.

[jebus]

Lads if you're going to judge a manager on his failure signings then Fergie must be up there with the worst of them