Scott Parker

thegazzyb said:
Normally I would too but his most recent comments made me lose all respect for the man.
To get to that age and be in this profession and yet take next to no personal responsibility for what just happened, is frankly embarrassing. It was his job to take responsibility for our performances at the very least.
Very brave decision by Max and I feel that it will prove to be the right one. We might get relegated anyway but now at least I expect us to develop a siege mentality and unite in giving it a proper go.
I would be quite happy with an internal appointment personally, someone who “gets” the football club.
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So my guess now would be that we shouldn't expect any more incomings.

The money for that will now be going on the wages of the new manager and the settlement with Parker. Presumably if he was sacked, it will be for the courts to decide whether or not his sacking was justified and if any compensation is due ? In which case we have a bit of a timescale before worrying about that.

But I wouldn't mind if we didn't sign any more players, personally. Let's give the players we signed last season ( whom we were on the verge of shipping out under Parker ! ) a chance. What we really need is a manager and a group of players who are happy playing in either of the top two leagues. That way, should we get relegated, we are not faced with replacing large parts of the team every time. For the club this approach makes sense IMO. Keep a squad of promising young top Championship players together for a few seasons and let them try to make a fist of staying in the PL whenever we go up. Less disruption in the squad from one season to the next, less money needs to be spent restructuring every season, less hassle in general. Combine that with a manager who understands the plan and is happy to be a yoyo manager and I think that would be great for both Max and the future of the club. We should use the PL money to build and maintain a strong Championship squad and not blow large chunks of it on individuals who we think might keep us in the PL for another season ( but probably won't ! ).

Stick with the youngsters, develop a siege mentality and try to keep the squad and management together for as many seasons as possible. Easy !
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dragonm8 said:
Don't feel too sorry for him.....he was contracted.

Cheaper to sack him than buy new players.

Let's just hope we get the next appointment right.

Please NOT Shaun Cooper.

Let him develop for another 5 years.
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Well right now it's another Shaun (Sean) who's the bookies favourite be careful what you wish for!
 
Sorry, but has it just been canonised now that Eddie was “driven out”? I’d heard from my own iN tHe KNoW sources that season, as early as January, that he was planning on leaving regardless of whether we stayed up or not. The man was fried. You could see it in his eyes.

Tindall being some kind of Judas figure was obviously not true either since they immediately paired up again at Newcastle. Irrespective of how crap he turned out to be for us on his own.

I don’t know enough about boards and business decisions to comment properly, but on the pitch the year we went down we were pants. Even then, I think we’d have stayed up without covid. And I would have loved nothing more than for EH to stay and get us back up, but my personal opinion was that he simply couldn’t be Mr. Bournemouth anymore and needed a change. And I don’t think we as a club were set up appropriately to function long long term to be entirely dependent on one man for every facet of our success. Many would argue that we still aren’t; I don’t know.

There’s always peaks and troughs, especially with rapid short term success. Maybe the board are as **************** as many think, but I don’t think a different approach is necessarily a bad thing. We’re not going to just throw money to stay up; we might just finally be building this new training ground, securing a long term premier league marker for the club. And personally, I actually do think this squad is good enough to respectably compete with some more aggressive tactics and positivity. Parker steered this same group to an easy win at a mid table club, then bitched and moaned and caterwauled about the squad not being up for it after playing juggernauts with his crappy defeatist tactics. Pathetic.
 
thegazzyb said:
So my guess now would be that we shouldn't expect any more incomings.

The money for that will now be going on the wages of the new manager and the settlement with Parker. Presumably if he was sacked, it will be for the courts to decide whether or not his sacking was justified and if any compensation is due ? In which case we have a bit of a timescale before worrying about that.

But I wouldn't mind if we didn't sign any more players, personally. Let's give the players we signed last season ( whom we were on the verge of shipping out under Parker ! ) a chance. What we really need is a manager and a group of players who are happy playing in either of the top two leagues. That way, should we get relegated, we are not faced with replacing large parts of the team every time. For the club this approach makes sense IMO. Keep a squad of promising young top Championship players together for a few seasons and let them try to make a fist of staying in the PL whenever we go up. Less disruption in the squad from one season to the next, less money needs to be spent restructuring every season, less hassle in general. Combine that with a manager who understands the plan and is happy to be a yoyo manager and I think that would be great for both Max and the future of the club. We should use the PL money to build and maintain a strong Championship squad and not blow large chunks of it on individuals who we think might keep us in the PL for another season ( but probably won't ! ).

Stick with the youngsters, develop a siege mentality and try to keep the squad and management together for as many seasons as possible. Easy !
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We need one centre back at least
 
KingKieffer said:
Give it to Cooper, this season is as good as a write off now anyway. It was going to be a monumental task even if everything went to plan over the summer, it has now become virtually impossible-

-we have spent an entire pre season preparing under a manager who didn’t want to be here with a squad he didn’t believe in.

-said manager signed so many average championship players on long contracts last season that we have been left with little room to manoeuvre and are left with a shockingly under equipped squad (he wasn’t wrong about that to be fair.)

-Max clearly is unwilling/unable to invest to make us competitive. Sustainability is all well and good but it’s fantastical to suggest it can go hand in hand with survival, just ask Norwich. No proven manager in their right mind is going to want to jump aboard this sinking ship, give it to Cooper and give him time to start implementing his style on the squad in preparation for a promotion push in the championship next season.
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Have Norwich gone bust? Another post from you that’s utter bo77ocks.
 
Now that I have had a while to think about this, I believe that, putting all other factors aside, it is the correct decision for one reason and one reason only. That reason comes in the form of a question.

How could Scott Parker possibly take the team forward following Saturday?

He didn't have a coherent answer. It therefore had to be P45 time.
 
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