Incompetence or Dustbin

[sinkov]

How United scuppered the RVN deal is Pace's fault is beyond me.

Mr Pace has been aware for over five weeks that we needed a new manager, RVN has been available for the entirety of that five weeks, yet that has not been enough time for Mr Pace to have closed the deal. Coaches of the stature of RVN do not remain available for ever, perhaps Mr Pace thought that they did and there was no particular hurry. I can only respectfully suggest that next time he wants to sign a big name manager/coach, he gets out of bed a bit earlier and moves at a faster pace than the proverbial striking slug.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Mr Pace has been aware for over five weeks that we needed a new manager, RVN has been available for the entirety of that five weeks, yet that has not been enough time for Mr Pace to have closed the deal. Coaches of the stature of RVN do not remain available for ever, perhaps Mr Pace thought that they did and there was no particular hurry. I can only respectfully suggest that next time he wants to sign a big name manager/coach, he gets out of bed a bit earlier and moves at a faster pace than the proverbial striking slug.

I don't think it works like that mon ami. Der Kaiser dropped our Alan a bombshell and in fairness to the bloke he will be trying to work out how not to get hit again. Quite obviously the fickle RVN was not meant to run the show at Turf Moor.

[sinkov]

I don't think it works like that mon ami. Der Kaiser dropped our Alan a bombshell and in fairness to the bloke he will be trying to work out how not to get hit again. Quite obviously the fickle RVN was not meant to run the show at Turf Moor.

Then how does it work mon ami ? There's nothing particularly unusual about a club appointing a new manager, some do it several times a year. Trying to work out how not to get hit again is a futile exercise, if Mr Pace wasn't aware before he certainly is now, bigger clubs will take your manager and players more or less as and when they want, and there's nothing you can do about it, except tie them into long term contracts in order to extract some compo or fee from the bigger club. If it really did come as a bombshell to Mr Pace when VK departed, then he still has an awful lot to learn about how football actually does work.