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Southampton sack Adkins

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Back to back promotions from League One to the Premier League, currently 15th in the table despite being favourites to go down, and just days after coming from 2-0 down to get a 2-2 draw away to Chelsea ... and he gets sacked :unsure

What more did they expect of him, FFS?
 
Unbelievable, footballs gone mad!

Did the owners have an interest in the Next Manager To Leave Thier Post market?

Le Tiss wont be happy.
 
It's great news for Villa, QPR, Wigan and Reading mind, i can see them going down now, i've just had a bit of Paddy Powers 9/5 for them to be relegated.
 
Ridiculous decision , proof if needed that football has finally gone nuts ..
 
Nice article from the Guardians daily email ....

It's minus 47 degrees outside – at least we assume so from the way everyone is dancing – but the Fiver's got hot hot heat over Southampton's decision to sack Nigel Adkins and appoint Mauricio Pochettino. And not just because it's yet another example of them foreigners coming over here and taking our jobs. Let's look at the hairless facts: Adkins's win percentage of 54.03 is the highest by a Southampton manager since the 19th century; he achieved back-to-back promotions from 2010-12; Southampton have lost two of their last 12 Premier League games and are 15th in the table.
Not that Adkins was sacked, of course. Southampton announced that they had "relieved him of his managerial duties", the most lamentable euphemism since Weird Uncle Fiver starting rambling about Mr Sheen and Kojak. "This decision has been made with the long-term ambitions of Southampton Football Club in mind," spraffed the club's palpably sane chief executive Nicola Cortese. "Whilst we acknowledge the contribution Nigel has made during the past two years, for the club to progress and achieve our long-term targets a change was needed."
Adkins has essentially been sacked for excellence. It is common to see newly-promoted managers sacke … sorry, relieved of their duties, under such circumstances. It's football's Pochettino Principle: chairmen sack a manager for failing to satisfy expectations that only exist because the manager overachieved to such an extent as to create a deluded sense of entitlement among the showers-that-be.
"I'm shocked at the timing, it's very strange and it's an odd thing to come to terms with today," said Matt Le Tissier. "It seems to be the way the club's being run under the chairman. Nothing's surprising and it's a bit of a laughing stock." Le Tissier is one of many reasons why the majority of football fans have been pretty fond of Southampton down the years, but plenty won't give a stuff what happens to them now.
 
This paragraph just about sums it up ...

Adkins has essentially been sacked for excellence. It is common to see newly-promoted managers sacke … sorry, relieved of their duties, under such circumstances. It's football's Pochettino Principle: chairmen sack a manager for failing to satisfy expectations that only exist because the manager overachieved to such an extent as to create a deluded sense of entitlement among the showers-that-be.
 
Do you think he asked for money to buy players before the transfer window closes and was told no so he called them all wankers ? either that or he was sticking his cock where he shouldn't have been...... strange decision
 
Got it. They were embarrased that they dropped 2 points at Stamford Bridge on Wed night.

Has to have been that :frown
 
First I've heard of this as I've been busy in work all day, as Punt say's Footballs gone mad, wtf the fcuk did Southampton expect in their first Prem season since promotion and spending no money.

Adkins seems a nice fella, young manager with his head screwed on, I don't think he'll be out of work for long.
 
Agree with your general sentiments, Slick, but

wtf the fcuk did Southampton expect in their first Prem season since promotion and spending no money.

Didn't they spend around 7m on Jay Rodriguez and 12m on Gaston Ramirez? Christ, it's even rumoured they paid Gills over 2m for Paolo Gazzaniga.

Adkins seems a nice fella, young manager with his head screwed on

Don't know how old you are, but I would've thought Winrew was the only one on here that could consider Adkins a youngster, he's 47 :lol
 
Don't know how old you are, but I would've thought Winrew was the only one on here that could consider Adkins a youngster, he's 47 :lol

Although having said that, it's true that there aren't that many that are younger than him :ohwell
 
Be interesting Monday as its not as though Adkins had lost the fans as they were fully behind him. Its given Villa a lifeline for sure. I thought the Forest sacking was a bit harsh as well....
 
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