Why do managers face so much pressure? Is the top-level management desire for immediate success the only way for its captain to manage long-term at a club?
Quoted: A club statement said: 'We can confirm that we have accepted Alan Curbishley's resignation as we feel it is in the best interests of both parties."
The following questions arise:
What best interests are those?; leading to
Why then they appoint him in the first place, if they are only going to override his authority?; begging the question
why not they themselves take charge of team affairs instead of ever employing someone to lead the team.; Or maybe
they already did and had inserted a clause "If you are manager, we pick the team, but you become the figurehead." when the contract was drawn up.
Only Alan Curbishley and his agent and the club would be able to say whether there was such a clause, if so, he sure had a hell of a time being a puppet, only to be refuted by another quote: Alan Curbishley: 'The selection of players is critical to the job of the manager and I had an agreement with the club that I alone would determine the composition of the squad.' He was not a puppet then.
What did West Ham think when they approached Curbishley for an interview? After all, he was a decent manager with a superb track record of keeping Charlton Athletic, his only other EPL club that he had managed, in mid-table in the Premier League for years on a tight budget.
At 50, Curbishley still has a good 20 years in him, I hope he finds that club who will adapt with his limited potential but, I don't know the man personally of course, appreciate his seemingly exemplary work attitude with a decent enough tactical nous that has defeated Man Utd on various occasions with both Charlton and West Ham.
I wish the next manager at West Ham all the best.
5-man new West Ham manager shortlist
Newcastle say 2nd goodbye to Kevin Keegan
It has been said that the manager job at this club is the toughest, putting it mildly in the simplest sense of the word, to handle in the league and having witnessed the ridiculous, tumultuous, tempestuous, disastrous and other apt words ending with "ous" events at the club in recent years, it is no wonder that such a job is hazardous for the mind and body, not for the manager, but for the tv viewer and soccer reader like me.
Newcastle were promoted to the EPL for the 1993-1994 season and the man who guided them in was the same man who resigned last night. It is to be noted that Newcastle have never looked down the other league since although they have treaded relegation waters for a couple of seasons or so. The famed and fanatical Toon Army is a vociferously boisterous 12th player at Tyneside, yet the club will never fulfil its dream of success if its impatience with its managers become a tradition.
If you appoint somebody to manage the team, by all means do all you can to support him. Yet at Newcastle, this will never be the case.
In Kevin Keegan, they had a charismatic manager with a flair for attacking football and who clearly struck a melodious chord with the Toon Army faithful, even being hailed as a messiah in most quarters. Now he is gone, will he back for a 3rd spell in charge? At 57, time may be running out for him. I guess it will be back to punditry for Keegan.
As for Newcastle itself, fans will surely become disillusioned with its owners' whims. The next manager will have it tough for him and big Kevin Keegan shoes to fill for sure. I implore on you, Newcastle, to steer your ship away from the cloud of laughing gas that you have become. You are becoming a pathetic joke.
It has been said that the manager job at this club is the toughest, putting it mildly in the simplest sense of the word, to handle in the league and having witnessed the ridiculous, tumultuous, tempestuous, disastrous and other apt words ending with "ous" events at the club in recent years, it is no wonder that such a job is hazardous for the mind and body, not for the manager, but for the tv viewer and soccer reader like me.
Newcastle were promoted to the EPL for the 1993-1994 season and the man who guided them in was the same man who resigned last night. It is to be noted that Newcastle have never looked down the other league since although they have treaded relegation waters for a couple of seasons or so. The famed and fanatical Toon Army is a vociferously boisterous 12th player at Tyneside, yet the club will never fulfil its dream of success if its impatience with its managers become a tradition.
If you appoint somebody to manage the team, by all means do all you can to support him. Yet at Newcastle, this will never be the case.
In Kevin Keegan, they had a charismatic manager with a flair for attacking football and who clearly struck a melodious chord with the Toon Army faithful, even being hailed as a messiah in most quarters. Now he is gone, will he back for a 3rd spell in charge? At 57, time may be running out for him. I guess it will be back to punditry for Keegan.
As for Newcastle itself, fans will surely become disillusioned with its owners' whims. The next manager will have it tough for him and big Kevin Keegan shoes to fill for sure. I implore on you, Newcastle, to steer your ship away from the cloud of laughing gas that you have become. You are becoming a pathetic joke.
akim