sussex_guy2k2
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Do they have lots of really nice, pleasant books that are ultimately rather boring to read?
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[Football] Chris Houghton still unemployed
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Do they have lots of really nice, pleasant books that are ultimately rather boring to read?
Well that's definitely not the case. When a company sacks someone, they follow procedure with warnings and the employee having representation etc. That's not the case with Chris's departure. It's not alleged he did anything wrong, the club simply wanted a different manager in. They'll have either paid his contract, or they'll be paying him monthly as before. He won't have to take them to court.
Blues Rock DJ
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no surprise he's not got a job yet, considering the panning we got on Sky/BT/BBC for being so negative !
Yeah. I mean, who really wants to get promoted to the Premier League anyway.
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"still" - ie: 4 weeks ago.
FatSuperman
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Aaron Aaronson's Derby County?
symyjym
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When he was here there is no doubt that he was looking at us being his long term project, and with the extended contracts he was given he had every reason to believe this.
At his age now though I would question whether he would really want to set his heart and soul on any other long term project, which most football jobs are, so he I reckon he would probably be better off coming in as an emergency manager to some club in trouble mid season. There is good money to be made in short term fix and save contracts and I am sure he is in a position where he doesn't even have to work anyway.
At his age now though I would question whether he would really want to set his heart and soul on any other long term project, which most football jobs are, so he I reckon he would probably be better off coming in as an emergency manager to some club in trouble mid season. There is good money to be made in short term fix and save contracts and I am sure he is in a position where he doesn't even have to work anyway.
Jesus Gul
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Monk gone. CH to Brum?
Blues Rock DJ
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it's the way you perform when you get there that matters ? To quote Jethro Tull 'Living In The Past !'
The first thing that matters, is getting there. The second thing that matters, is staying there. Chris has proven himself pretty skilled in both departments.
I imagine there will be Championship jobs available for him, but he'll either want a decent Championship team with a realistic chance of promotion, or another PL job, which will be hard to get.
mikeyjh
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Difficult to argue with that, I don't think it's a good fit either.
mikeyjh
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You've summarised my existential crisis quite well - Obviously, the goal has to be to get promotion to the PL, otherwise what is the point? But the idea of doing it just to mean the revenue (that will soon be join by similar expenses) is £mmm isn't terribly appealing to me. Clearly it's somewhat more appealing to Mel Morris. The idea of spending said £mmm simply to survive in the PL is equally unappealing so to get promotion with some of our academy talent and then have those players achieve something in the PL is what I'd love to see.
Confused thinking I know but ideally we keep Lampard and carry on in the same direction.
mikeyjh
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If you ask me, it's probably youth development, obviously the board would champion promotion first but with development a very close second.
I wouldn't read to much in to those 'short lists', would probably describe them as 'media guesswork lists'. Personally I would be quite surprised to see Hughton rock up at a PL club.
OzMike
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I think I am getting cold/flu, I could keep him busy for a couple of days till I get better. 
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All this switching I can now see the Jeremy Corbyn in ya matey and come to think about it there are other similarities.
Jolly Red Giant
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I was talking to Ray Houghton a couple of weeks ago and he was saying he gets p*ssed when people leave the 'o' out of his name.
Jolly Red Giant
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Chris Hughton is not a 'defensive minded manager' - he works with what he has to get the job done.
Jolly Red Giant
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This I agree with - people under-estimate how highly Hughton is thought of - and if this was six months ago Hughton would have walked into the Ireland job.
Someone else who thinks that Hughton doesn't know how to play attacking football.
And of course he did that when he had Newcastle in the top half of the PL.
The average age of his starting 11 at Newcastle was 23-24
What he said
Ashley - no - and if it was Ashley absolutely not.
Now that is a pertinent question.
And that was the case right up to the moment he was sacked.
Hughton has always looked on his job as a long-term commitment - it is the nature of the guy.
Quote - the average Premier League manager will coach in the top flight for less than two and a half years (91 games), coaching two different sides and winning only a third of his games, minus a trophy.