Karanka doing a Poyet

[Paris]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...er-aitor-karanka-hits-board-lack-new-players/

 

[beorhthelm]

again? how many times will he throw his toys out the pram?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He had a strop last season which nearly cost them promotion. It's the Latin temperment.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Doing a Poyet? Maybe my memory fails me, but I don't remember Poyet ever lashing out at the board for not signing players. There was a cryptic comment about ceilings made after the season ended, if that's what you mean, but hardly in the same ballpark as Karanka is doing (for the second time)

 

[atomised]

I didnt think of it as a Poyet. Much more as doing a Karanka from last season

 

[Driver 8]

I'd love Middlesbrough to go down, and if we get promoted too I may just have to go back there and walk around the city centre with my Albion shirt on and laugh in their faces.

 

[MrSnuggles]

I'd love Middlesbrough to go down, and if we get promoted too I may just have to go back there and walk around the city centre with my Albion shirt on and laugh in their faces.

Count me in on that!

 

[Gritt23]

I didnt think of it as a Poyet. Much more as doing a Karanka from last season

Exactly!

As mentioned earlier, there was one "ceiling" comment from Poyet, but it's hardly on the same level as the annual Karanka meltdown.

 

[Notters]

I'd love Middlesbrough to go down, and if we get promoted too I may just have to go back there and walk around the city centre with my Albion shirt on and laugh in their faces.

Yes. And shout things like "haha you lost" and "your Lancashire accents sound weird" and other nonsensical drivel.

 

[BBassic]

So in the space of a few weeks he's:

- slagged off the fans
- slagged off the owners
- slagged off the signings

My money is on him being out of work by the end of Feb.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Teams in our position are signing players for £14 million – we are signing players that didn’t play in the Championship [Gestede]. “Patrick didn’t play for almost 18 months, so I don’t think it is an amazing improvement. We can see, and the people who know Patrick, know that he is not currently the same as he was 18 months ago.

“If we are expecting that Patrick was going to arrive and score five goals straight away then we are making a big mistake because he is not ready now.


This is amazing. Obviously he's unhappy at other players not signing for them, but these comments are hardly laying out the welcome mat for Bamford and Gestede, are they? Yeah, thanks for coming lads, but you've not improved our squad at all. I bet Rhodes felt the cold chill of a Karanka welcome too when he signed. Terrible man-management skills.

Somebody should really make it clear to him that there's a reason other (i.e. good) players aren't signing for Boro and it's not because of Steve Gibson's lack of effort: it's because the club are pretty unattractive by virtue of being (a) relegation candidates; (b) based in what by almost any measure is one of Britain's worst towns; and (c) managed by a whinging Tiny Tears who flounces out at the slightest hint of things going pear shaped.

 

[crodonilson]

Bloody hell he'd not happy about Pat Bamford is he? Boro fought off at least half a dozen clubs to sign him.

 

[Marshy]

He does look and sound like he is about to walk out again anyday...

 

[SeagullofMalaysia]

There's a reason other (i.e. good) players aren't signing for Boro and it's not because of Steve Gibson's lack of effort: it's because the club are pretty unattractive by virtue of being (a) relegation candidates; (b) based in what by almost any measure is one of Britain's worst towns; and (c) managed by a whinging Tiny Tears who flounces out at the slightest hint of things going pear shaped.

To be fair, they did sign several big name players (Victor Valdes, Negredo and Barragan). Those points are still valid though

 

[el punal]

I'd love Middlesbrough to go down, and if we get promoted too I may just have to go back there and walk around the city centre with my Albion shirt on and laugh in their faces.

Please, a bit of taste and decorum. We Brighton fans are well above that sort of nonsense. I may be biased here, but every Boro fan I've met has been really friendly and complimentary about us. If the boot was on the other foot I would be seriously p***ed off if a "rival" fan did what you are suggesting. Anyway, it's a bloody long way to Middlesbrough, I would rather spend my time and money on something more constructive.

 

[Driver 8]

Please, a bit of taste and decorum. We Brighton fans are well above that sort of nonsense. I may be biased here, but every Boro fan I've met has been really friendly and complimentary about us. If the boot was on the other foot I would be seriously p***ed off if a "rival" fan did what you are suggesting. Anyway, it's a bloody long way to Middlesbrough, I would rather spend my time and money on something more constructive.

You clearly didn't walk back through Middlesbrough city centre after the last game of last season then.

 

[Albion_Dave]

You clearly didn't walk back through Middlesbrough city centre after the last game of last season then.

Utter pricks they were that day.

 

[el punal]

You clearly didn't walk back through Middlesbrough city centre after the last game of last season then.

No, true. But I can only speak as I find. Over the last few years, living in Southampton, I've had the poor, l'il old Brighton mockery thrown in my face. Not now though, as we're on the cusp of something unbelievable. Respect is due and is on its way. As for your Boro experience, if things pan out well with us going up and they coming down, sit down with a nice pint, look at the League tables and have a really good gloat. So much more relaxing and feeling that inner glow as well.