Gary Rowett has justs been sacked. Surely football’s most inevitable alliance is about to happen - Stoke City, Fat Sam and lower end Championship football. They can’t miss this opportunity surely?! Although you’d suspect Moyes and Pardew will let it be known they’ll go there for a few million a year....
Sam usually takes jobs whereby he to keep a team in the prem, there will be a few vacancies soon, maybe he would like a job at Dean Court!
Stoke City, a club showing the rest of the country exactly how not to do it. You can guarantee they'll appoint one of the merry go round idiots that wreck populate our leagues.
To be fair to them, they showed many clubs like us in stature how to maintain PL status for a number of years which was no small feat. But it has been a spectacular downfall from last season onwards, and they’ve only really lost Shaqiri since. It’s often said that good lower league managers aren’t given the opportunities but Rowett, Hasselbaink and the guy who went from Shrewsbury to Ipswich were and have largely found even the step to the Championship a tough one. There’s also Adkins and Clement who seem to be out of a job every 12 months. I’m sure there’s more too. As repugnant a man as he is, Allardyce would do a good job at Stoke in all likelihood and would probably sneak them into the playoffs and then win them knowing him. Might have a sneaky bet on Martin O’ Neill and Keane though.
Comparable to Silva in some ways, he’s skanked some good clubs with a lot of potential to worm his way up the ladder when a proper manager would have just tried coaching what he had.
Adkins more successful than the others you list. Harshly dumped by Southampton when they wanted an upgrade but it worked out OK for them in the short to medium term. Managers are often hamstrung when they take on a club on the downturn; Stoke, QPR, Ipswich and Reading in these cases. They usually have the residue from a relegation team to clear out, often coupled with an owner who has lost the enthusiasm to invest.
He was on the Totally Football League Show podcast a few weeks ago sounding very full of himself, going on about how they only recruit the best characters and so on. Good luck with that at Stoke, with players earning 10 or 20 times what Luton players do. He’s carving out a niche of working in total shitholes. Grimsby, Luton, Stoke.... Reckon he could do Hull when he’s been sacked from this one.
