Forest destroying West Ham

They're still supposed to be receiving €17m in damages from Mutu, Livorno and Juventus as far as I'm aware. Don't think it's yet been ruled that they don't have to pay anything.

 

Big Sam gets the dreaded "vote on confidence"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25625553

 

That's West Ham in the Championship then, good for us though

 

Talks**** reckon that Sam Allardyce is the 13th highest paid manager in world football, on €3.5m a year. So with two and a half years to run that's a £7.3m payoff. I wasn't far out then.

 

And it wouldn't just be SA they paid off. No doubt any new manager would want his own backroom staff in as well so you are looking at a further trenche of redundancy payouts. Then any new manager will want to bring players in which again represents a significant cash outlay plus an element of risk as the new players and management team take time to bed in.

There is an argument that you would be better off bringing in a couple of players than sacking your manager and I'm sure that teams who regularly chop and change their managers end up spending more in the transfer market and end up in more financial trouble then those who have similar results but keep the faith in their manager.

Bringing the debate to our club to sack CH and his staf would cost us (I believe) approx £5m plus the net increase in the wage of the new management team. Would we be better keeping CH and spending the £5m on a decent defender or attacking midfielder? I think to sack any manager is a very risky act and could just as easily backfire as succeed. If we were looking at serious risk of relegation then IMO a gamble worth taking but if we look like keeping up for another year then that is progress and we can look forward to further squad development in the Summer.

 

Hughton's got 18 months to run, and doesn't feature in the top 30 highest paid managers, so the absolute top end of his salary is €2.3m, so a max pay-off of £2.87m. Whether his staff would double that or not I don't know, but £4-5m probably isn't far off. With no obvious managerial candidate (although latest rumour is we're interested in Pepe Mel), I'd rather we spent it on players.

 

Now 2-0 down after just 25 mins with a strong team... I think Allardyce might be on his way, though they'll probably wait until the league match

 

Citeh are playing virtually a full first team though, and they're mighty strong at home!

 

True.

3-0 now and that heavy defeat we got is starting to look more and more like par for the course...

 

And 4...

 

20 minutes to go yet - our 'record' is under serious threat here

 

They can't be that bad! Surley!

 

Excellent tweet:

 

Ha! Ha! Excellent!

 

Our record has been saved by the West Ham 'keeper, who was excellent today, and Pellegrini's determination to blood some youngsters

 

Lol:

 

If they don't beat Cardiff I think he will be sacked surely?

 

That's good going - leaked 11 goals in the space of 4 days and scored 0. I think that is slightly better than our trip to Manchester earlier in the season isn't it???

 

We conceded 11 and scored none but at least that was against both Manchester clubs, not Nottingham Forest and Man City.