[Archived] Premier League Happenings

[DE.]

Apparently he called a meeting with the players and they told him they wouldn't play for him anymore. Not sure how true that is but it wouldn't surprise me - he hands out fines for all sorts of ridiculous reasons and always puts the blame on the players rather than taking any himself. Premier League footballers can be pampered tarts but nobody wants to be treated like a child. PDC's management style may work in the lower leagues but no chance of it working in the Prem.

[Stuart]

Apparently he called a meeting with the players and they told him they wouldn't play for him anymore. Not sure how true that is but it wouldn't surprise me - he hands out fines for all sorts of ridiculous reasons and always puts the blame on the players rather than taking any himself. Premier League footballers can be pampered tarts but nobody wants to be treated like a child. PDC's management style may work in the lower leagues but no chance of it working in the Prem.

That would be disgusting if true. They should have just put up with him and given 100% every week. They get paid.

Steve Kean for Newcastle!

[thenodrog]

? Sunderland.

[Audax]

Sunderland in 20th got beat by the 19th place club West Brom 3-0. No matter how you feel about the situation, that is an awful result and they were in a rough patch of about 4 matches, next 2 league matches vs. Man Utd. and Liverpool.

[neekoy]

Another poisoned chalice, perfect for Di Matteo

[Andy]

I can't believe anybody wanted Di Canio here, just a few months ago.

Said at the time it would have been a horrendous appointment for us, never mind a Premiership club.

[K-Hod]

I can't believe anybody wanted Di Canio here, just a few months ago.

Said at the time it would have been a horrendous appointment for us, never mind a Premiership club.

The only potential positive was that, as he's highly combustible- at the time sparking out Shebby could have been a real possibility!

[thenodrog]

The only potential positive was that, as he's highly combustible- at the time sparking out Shebby could have been a real possibility!

I think Murphy and Orr would have been far more likely to get Di Canio's boot up their jacksies than Shebby Singh.

[K-Hod]

I think Murphy and Orr would have been far more likely to get Di Canio's boot up their jacksies than Shebby Singh.

Either way, I'd not be arguing if that were the case!!

[tkturner]

Far too much player power now in the game for me...

Players should look to perform for their manager, manager should be the power, even if players dont really like whats going on they should still put in the effort, its like what happened with us, yes we all wanted Kean out but we also had far too many players not putting in a shift at the same time...

[Salgado Is A Hero]

I'd wager nearly all of their players were unhappy with him. For me, if that's the case then he's in the wrong and therefore should be held accountable.

[Audax]

I thought he, PDC, had just brought in two Italian players in since the season began giving them a total of 4.

http://int.soccerway.com/teams/england/sunderland-association-football-club/683/

And that's fine, I thought I heard his backroom staff was Italian as well. It worked seemingly effectively at Swindon Town. I thought he left there because of financial misunderstandings with the higherups.

[speeeeeeedie]

Far too much player power now in the game for me...

Players should look to perform for their manager, manager should be the power, even if players dont really like whats going on they should still put in the effort, its like what happened with us, yes we all wanted Kean out but we also had far too many players not putting in a shift at the same time...

Not really. The players had had enough of his autocratic regime. It is extremely hard to give your all for someone you don't like or respect. Even for footballers getting paid oodles. The days of "get stuck in" being a top class motivating tactic are long gone. Sports psychology has made sure of that. I was once told that football is 90% physical, 10% mental; but the 10% controls the 90%. Little things like banning ketchup eat away at the 10%.

I think Sunderland were right to pot him, they were certs for relegation with him. Di Canio will resurface but I think he will conform to the law of diminishing returns with each job tenure being shorter than the last, then ending up on the same managerial short list as Iain Dowie and Peter Reid.

[Audax]

And while banning ice in Coca-Cola may have been the final straw, his biographer Gabriele Marcotti believes some sections of the British media have unfairly typecast the Italian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24209814

I wonder what is wrong with ice in coke? Really.

[Shabani]

He was taking them down, the players have saved the club and early enough that there's time to rectify it.

I wish our players had done the same when Kean showed, quite conclusively, he was going to take us down...

[Majiball]

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/ice-water-and-digestion.html

[Guest Norbert]

Di Canio at Sunderland would either work and be a bit eccentric, or be a complete and utter clusterf_ck with all sorts of crazy behaviour. It turned out to be the latter.

[John]

Di Canio at Sunderland would either work and be a bit eccentric, or be a complete and utter clusterf_ck with all sorts of crazy behaviour. It turned out to be the latter.

Di Canio is too extreme though and a complete nut job, was always going to end badly.

[Amo]

That clip of him and Sunderland fans trying to communciate through the medium of shrug was pretty funny, though.

[Guest Norbert]

That move has been compared to that team talk from Phil Brown. I can see why.

[Blue blood]

Di Canio is too extreme though and a complete nut job, was always going to end badly.

Agree - and said as much.

Added in that he didn't have the financial muscle he had at Swindon (or rather the excess he and the board got away with through rank bad financial management) plus the fear factor doesn't work so well when players are on long contracts of big money - it was always going to be a disaster.

Not sure he'll get another job - someone would be really daft to appoint him. Premier league - his man management is suicidal, lower leagues, the same can be said for his spending.

[West Yorks Rover]

Far too much player power now in the game for me...

Players should look to perform for their manager, manager should be the power, even if players dont really like whats going on they should still put in the effort, its like what happened with us, yes we all wanted Kean out but we also had far too many players not putting in a shift at the same time...

If I was a millionaire footballer I definitely would'nt take any crap from Kean or anyone of his ilk.

[Stuart]

Both Manchester clubs currently losing to Villa and West Brom.

[Audax]

Interesting day, Man Utd. though would lose to the Baggies at home.

Villa wins.

Hull defeating West Ham, WHU may now start to worry about form.

[Guest Norbert]

I wonder what the odds were on a Villa/West Brom double.

Both Mancester teams are looking disappointing (and FC United lost at home to Whitby), and it is hard to pick a title challenger out of the rest. Perhaps Spurs might have a go.