Fat Sam is back!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Mazuuurk]

"I want to be able to savour life while I am still relatively young, and when I am still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do - like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager," he added.

"I simply want to be able to enjoy all the things you cannot really enjoy with the 24/7 demands of managing any football club, let alone one in the Premier League."


"Listen, lads, I know we're facing Relegation and all but can you sort out this Set pieces practice yourself this afternoon because my grandson has a School Play, ok? It's even about sport and has Mourinho in it, my Grandson plays FatRonaldo but they wouldn't allow the cunt-hair because schools these fucking days, lads"

[Amigo]

Gylfi as a set-piece taker in an Allardyce team is going to be quality viewing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I once went to watch us play Sam's Blackburn (I think it was in the 09/10 Ancelotti sweep all before us season) and we were 5-0 up with half an hour to go amid a flurry of Drogba/Lampard cumshots. The last half hour was a thing of absolute beauty as Sam decided to embark on his own version of extreme damage limitation. Paul Robinson would take 2-3 minutes over every goal kick; any time they had possession it would just be punted into the emptiest bit of the park by their Andrews/Nzonzi midfield creativity hub. People went down with injuries to waste more time as if they were 1-0 up. Morten Gamst Pedersen was substituted from the furthest spot on the pitch and walked off at 1mph, stopping to applaud the 38 away fans who had made the trip from parts northern, all at 5-0 down.

It's that that should be cherished about Sam.

[Lewis]

I've noticed a few people lumping him in with David Moyes and Alan Pardew as a lazy, shit appointment. Unimaginative perhaps, but, unlike the other two, he guarantees survival, and without that all of your long-term intentions to appoint a Young Manager who plays Good Football might as well not exist.

[phonics]

Literally anyone competent could guarantee survival. David Unsworth would keep them up. They've got a team that finished 7th last year minus 20 goals.

[Lewis]

They lost their only goalscorer from that team and replaced him with a load of crap. They're every bit as shit as someone like West Ham.

[phonics]

Who won't go down either.

[Lewis]

There are about seven teams who could go down. They're all as crap as each other, so it only takes a small run of wins to make the difference for any of them.

[Giggles]

Gylfi as a set-piece taker in an Allardyce team is going to be quality viewing.

Gylfi is done.

[niko_cee]

I bet he's getting paid an absolute fortune.

Are they playing Newcastle any time soon?

[Reg]

£9 million over 18 months. :|

[Jimmy Floyd]

In five years' time we will be marvelling at viral videos of Gylfi knocking in free kicks for the Pawtucket Bush Bears and elevating him to some mystical Pirlo-like status.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I bet he's getting paid an absolute fortune.

Are they playing Newcastle any time soon?

2 weeks time in Newcastle.

[Shindig]

Class. That's an away win, then. Unless Sam manages to get sacked within that time. How far David Moyes has slipped is kinda depressing, though. It's kinda like how Alan Curbishley would've wound up if he took every job he was linked with.

[Disco]

I've noticed a few people lumping him in with David Moyes and Alan Pardew as a lazy, shit appointment. Unimaginative perhaps, but, unlike the other two, he guarantees survival, and without that all of your long-term intentions to appoint a Young Manager who plays Good Football might as well not exist.

The radio was full of questions about how Everton had lowered their ambitions with this appointment, as if he isn't streets ahead of any of the fashionable dickheads from France or Spain that they might have wanted. I reckon by the end of next season their chairman will think he's clever enough to get rid of Sam and get some continental haircut in who'll proceed to take them back to 15th again.

[niko_cee]

Class. That's an away win, then. Unless Sam manages to get sacked within that time.

No way. Rafa will be brushing up on his wavy hand thing as we speak.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hopefully Brexit will stop foreign managers coming over, we'll go back to having proper managers like Dave Bassett and Frank Clark, and Michael Cox will either be posting 3,000 words on why Arsenal need to knock it long, or be in a dole queue.

[Ian]

Sam. :cool:

[SvN]

Has Allardyce ever done a bad job at any club he's been at? Serious question.

[Adam]

David Unsworth would keep them up.

You must be joking

[Jimmy Floyd]

The only thing David Unsworth would keep up is the other end of a see-saw.

[Reg]

Has Allardyce ever done a bad job at any club he's been at? Serious question.
England? Although his win percentage was 100%, the bloody genius.

[Browning]

He's not even there yet and he's already turned them around. :drool:

[Kikó]

If anyone can turn this around in the second half it'll be Moyes.

[Yevrah]

If anyone can turn this around in the second half it'll be Moyes.

:D

That tickled me.

[Pen]

Did Flores quit football straight after being donned senseless by Sam or is he still turning up for Mes que some Goathèrdérs somewhere?

[Lewis]

Are you posting with voice recognition now?

[Ian]

Has Allardyce ever done a bad job at any club he's been at? Serious question.

Newcastle? Or was he just not playing 'good enough' football?

[Giggles]

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[Pen]

Are you posting with voice recognition now?
Using my phone. Typos come easily as the keyboard is so small. I think you can still get the gist of it.

[Kikó]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1w9bg3bMM

Pen^

[Pen]

I love Big Train. Bet Sam loves it too.

[Reg]

He's not even there yet and he's already turned them around. :drool:
The players deciding they ought to start playing now there's a new manager coming in must feel rotten for Unsworth.

[Shindig]

We beat Stoke 4-1 on Kevin Keegan's not-return. We had such hope.

[Pleb]

Big Sam :drool:

[phonics]

Sam Allardyce's £6m-a-year contract at Everton will see him earn more than some of the biggest names in football. It works out at around £115k a week, overtaking the salaries of Real Madrid's double Champions League winner Zinedine Zidane, Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone, Juventus manager Max Allegri and PSG chief Unai Emery.

Shambles. Why are you offering your 3rd choice this much money?

[Disco]

Any vaguely sensible third choice would leverage your obvious desperation and realise that people who buy football clubs are often predisposed to wasting large heaps of money.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There is way more money in England than in foreign leagues, it's not really comparable. Also the top, top, top clubs see managers as pretty much dispensable now (with some exceptions like Guardiola), whereas for an Everton your manager could easily be the difference between 6th and 16th.

There was an article the other day saying if anything, managers are underspent-on compared to players.

[Lewis]

Diego Simeone deserves more, but the others could all be replaced by post-it notes with 'Lads it's *today's opposition' on.

[Amigo]

Gylfi is done.
Not really.

[Weaver]

Did Flores quit football straight after being donned senseless by Sam or is he still turning up for Mes que some Goathèrdérs somewhere?

He signed for Granada in the summer, but he was playing in somewhere like the UAE after he left Swansea.