Sam Allardyce has just resigned (Johann Smith news)

I do not think it means anything unless Sammy Lee leaves alongside Big Sam.

 

We'll have to wait and see who the new manager will be. Not much more we can do untill then.

 

It might mean Jose Mourinio just got a little bit more pissed off, but I'm not sure how much it means for Johann.

JS was pretty burried, so I don't see how it could hurt. Either he gets a fresh and makes a breakthough or they clear him out and he gets a permanent move to where he has a better chance to play. Both outcomes seem ok.

 

it means we get to chuckle at both leeds and bolton this weekend.

 

It means J. Smith becomes a starter next year for Bolton.....hopefully.

 

Wow.

I didn't think a Man. City deal could be wrapped up so quickly, so this is a definent ?? Where's Big Sam going?

As long as Johann goes on loan the Coca-Cola next year, he's on target.

He's not good enough to make the big club and play minutes. And I'd hope he's judged to be too good to learn at League One by next season.

 

This move probably affects DMB more than J. Smith.. I would think Bease will have to look elsewhere for employment next year..

on another note, PSV win the league on goal difference..

 

Allardyce may be more open then you think.

He's known for finding players outside the sightlines of other clubs- reaching into distant leagues.

He flew to Dortmund last year to apparently, seriously scout Cherundolo- and supposedly was interested in Dempsey too at one time.

He prolly the best shot Beasley has for a(nother) manager to come in, and still assess him (as Pearce would have).

Given Man City have holes everywhere, I also think buying a left-footed wing/mid may NOT be the first place they look (either). Big Sam won't be able to spend $5m pounds at every spot.

We'll see...

 

ManCity has decent talent. It has been ineptly lead for several years by Keegan and Pearce.

Allardyce knows what he's doing and has developed a solid rep over the years. Hopefully, he'll have some money to spend, though a current bidder Ray Ranson doesn't appear to be all that liquid in terms of finances.

 

For a while, the rumor was that big Phil Anschutz was interested.

Wouldn't it be just like our guy to be doing this under the radar, and pick a great manager to boot?

It doesn't calculate with me at all that Allardyce quit for this Ranson fellow- whose bid seems not 100% solid and underfunded. I'd think Allardyce would only quit if he had something 100% in the hand and knew it wouldn't fail.
Which is what an big Phil Anschutz bid would be (whatever he wants, he'll get)

Gues we will find out...

 

I would think that Beasley would fit Big Sam's style well, which is all about defense, counter, win set plays and take advantage of them.

DMB is one of the best at winning fouls on the counter, he could be very useful in that system.

 

Bolton for years has been the most physical team in the league.

Beez?

Not so physical.

 

Why was he interested in Stevie, the Enforcer, Cherundolo then?

 

Speed on the outside to serve balls into the "mixer" ... where the aforementioned muscle would be trying to head it in.

That's been Bolton's MO pretty much up to the last year - defend in numbers, take the body, play safe, kick long and crash the goal on every set piece.

It wasn't pretty - arguably the ugliest soccer played in the Prem - but it kept their heads above water until they could assemble a team that can play on the ground.

Sam's methods probably served as a model for both Sheffield United and Watford this year. SheffU will probably stay up and Watford would have made it interesting, had it not been for King's injury.

This style is known in the US as "Bora ball". It was deemed good enough to get the US out of a group stage once.

 

Are you saying that Beasley doesn't provide spead on the outside?

 

I think Sammy may be headed for Newcastle but I could be wrong.

 

To Bolton?

To ManCity?

Speed, yes.

A semblance of muscle, no.

Sam, no midget himself, likes sturdier folks, as a rule.

The question is whether DMB can supplement the bigger guys. 'Dolo could.

 

It hard to imagine he resigned without having some firm handshake agreement SOMEWHERE.

Where is the question. I guess we will find out soon enough. Newcastle does make the most sense (more than Man. City). Much bigger club (on paper, not reality) w/real resources.

A challenged Man City bid seems a strange reason to leave.

 

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=464224&CPID=8&clid=30&lid=2&title=Brown+not+surprised+by+Sam

4th paragraph from bottom. It does make sense as that is a club with talent that is mismanaged.

 

You say Bolton likes to use speed on the outside to serve balls into the bigger guys in the middle. You said Beasley is a bad fit. You said Cherundolo is a good fit.

Cherundolo is 5'6" and while maybe not as skinny as Beasley, not too far off. And Bolton started Gardner, Thompson and Tall in the midfield last week and all three of these guys are under 155 pounds. Thompson shows as 10.1 stones which I think is 141 lbs.

 

But 'Dolo is much stronger on the ball than Beasley and he plays the position (fullback) where one usually runs into an empty space rather than having to take a marker off the dribble.

Now, Allardyce obviously is a very adaptable fellow but, when he was using Stelios on the right, the Greek was always with the ball at his feet. That was playing to his strength but the guy was no shrinking violet.

Beasley, on the other hand, is smaller and weaker with the ball. When Pearce played him with Corradi and/or Samaras, DaMarcus could make runs into space but he rarely served a quality ball into the box and often back-passed.

But he did do much better with Mpenza and Vassell in a 4-3-3, which was a spread formation and gave him a lot more gaps to run into from an advanced position. After using 5-3-2 for a while, the benefits of using 4-3-3 with the above forwards eventially were realized by Psycho Pearce.

Another coach might have preference for a different scheme though.

That may leave Beez outside looking in.