Powell/Zola papertalk

[shanns]

Why would we want a manager that was sacked at Watford. No thanks.

[Nick]

OH FOR FOCKS SAKE!!!!!!!

Its only a matter of time before Paul Ince's name gets a mention.

[Ginger Ninja]

****** hope not

[Kirill]

ZOLA ???

[davegee]

Daily Telegraph

Reporting today that QPR are lining up Zola as replacement for HR. Just wondering where these stories come from, I hope it's just the usual rubbish paper talk
Can't see it happening what has Zola ever done anyway.

[Yousef]

I think it is cr@p. Tony known to employee big names.

[Stanley]

Joseph Barton @Joey7Barton 42m

"Seems a good appointment by Charlton. Youth technical director from Italy. Bottom of the Champ. Not a blade of grass on their pitch.
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Won't be much technique being practiced on that park. All I can say is good luck to them all. Hope it works out well... #CAFC

A fiver says it ends in tears...? #anytakers

Is this guy the best candidate? He may well be. 1 question. Where are all the young, hungry, capable British coaches comparatively?

AC Milan youth technical director? Do me a ****ing favour. How is this helping OUR game. We lose a young British coach who has done a......great job at Charlton in Chris Powell. And replace him with some no mark from abroad. Stupidity like this is why we struggle on INT stage

Feel sorry for Chris Powell. Loyal player for the club, did a great job getting them up and this is how he is treated. Shambles.

Wish him every success going forward. It will end in tears for Charlton.

I'm all for the best coming here to work. But not just any old s***e. At one stage we attracted the best players/coaches. Now it just......cheap labour. Its not based on skill. Its based on the fact the lesser foreign coaches will work for less and do as they are told.

Remember, for every Pochettino theres a Pepe Mel.

"I can without a shadow of a doubt name more bad ones than good ones. #ChristianGross. WOW."

[Nick]

It's an impossible question to answer. One thing that's absolutely certain is that no manager is going to take a team up if the owners sell all his best players and give him no time to rebuild. We would not be top of the Championship if our owners had sold all our best academy players - King, Moore etc - and the youngsters like Drinkwater, James, De Laet, Knockaert and Vardy who Pearson identified and bought for relatively little money.

Fact is that Powell has been badly let down by the owners, who have undermined him and failed to give him the backing he needed.

I understand what your saying but my gut feeling would be, no he doesn't have what it takes. Now I obviously understand that its unfair to judge on purely gut feeling but the only way to 100% find out would be to gamble and give him the job, and I for one would not be happy to take that gamble and experiment to see whether he can make it.

I would imagine if given the chance he would be a bit like Holloway. Now don't get me wrong Holloway will always be one of my favourite people involved in QPR. But the fact is IMO he'll never quite have what it takes to make it in the premiership. He'll give it his all, his heart and soul but unfortunately he'll never quite make it.

I suppose it all comes down to "one way to find out" and for me I don't want to be that experimental club.

[LanguedocFox]

The only reason you like him is because he was apart of your club... from a neutrals view (someone who's had nothing to do with him) I honestly think he's not all that, just an average manager. He could do a good job in the lower league's and probably no better than mid table in the championship if given the chance with the right backing. But with all respect we're looking for premiership quality and he is simply not that.

.. Ask your self this, can you honestly see him taking a team to the premiership and building a team that will stay there??.... IMO not a chance.

It's an impossible question to answer. One thing that's absolutely certain is that no manager is going to take a team up if the owners sell all his best players and give him no time to rebuild. We would not be top of the Championship if our owners had sold all our best academy players - King, Moore etc - and the youngsters like Drinkwater, James, De Laet, Knockaert and Vardy who Pearson identified and bought for relatively little money.

Fact is that Powell has been badly let down by the owners, who have undermined him and failed to give him the backing he needed.

[Nick]

From a Leicester City fan's perspective, it's very interesting to read these comments. Nigel Pearson signed Chris Powell on a short term contract in 2008, when we were in the third tier (for the first time ever). Over the years we've signed quite a few "one last payday" players - Dennis Wise, Martin Keown, Dion Dublin all spring to mind - and we did wonder whether Powell might be another one of these.

Not a bit of it. He played a big part in our promotion push that season, signed a contract as a player-coach, and looked after our development squad. He stayed with us for three years, and played a big part in bringing though some of our younger players: he left to take over Charlton in January 2011 with all our good wishes.

He's been appallingly badly treated by the new Charlton owner this season. His best striker, Kermogant (our nemesis) was sold to Bournemouth, and he's had to play a mix of Academy youngsters and Standard Liege misfits. OK, so Charlton are bottom, but they are only four points from safety with three games in hand over Barnsley and Yeovil and four over the neext four teams. Rumour is that the new manager has already been chosen.

The Charlton fans love him, and so do we: see this thread from the City fans forum - http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/to...powell-sacked/

The only reason you like him is because he was apart of your club... from a neutrals view (someone who's had nothing to do with him) I honestly think he's not all that, just an average manager. He could do a good job in the lower league's and probably no better than mid table in the championship if given the chance with the right backing. But with all respect we're looking for premiership quality and he is simply not that.

.. Ask your self this, can you honestly see him taking a team to the premiership and building a team that will stay there??.... IMO not a chance.

[West Acton]

Well said Langue

Not very often a side is bottom of the league when the manager gets sacked but fans are up in arms over it which I think is testament to how highly thought of he is and how he has been proper mugged off the owners

Bit surprised by the negativity towards him on this thread. Maybe would not be my first choice as manager but if I was Harry I would be on the phone to him straight come join us until the end of the season reminds me a lot of McClaren

[californiahoop]

Very highly thought of there, hmmmm, a role in our set-up might not be a bad shout after all?

[LanguedocFox]

From a Leicester City fan's perspective, it's very interesting to read these comments. Nigel Pearson signed Chris Powell on a short term contract in 2008, when we were in the third tier (for the first time ever). Over the years we've signed quite a few "one last payday" players - Dennis Wise, Martin Keown, Dion Dublin all spring to mind - and we did wonder whether Powell might be another one of these.

Not a bit of it. He played a big part in our promotion push that season, signed a contract as a player-coach, and looked after our development squad. He stayed with us for three years, and played a big part in bringing though some of our younger players: he left to take over Charlton in January 2011 with all our good wishes.

He's been appallingly badly treated by the new Charlton owner this season. His best striker, Kermogant (our nemesis) was sold to Bournemouth, and he's had to play a mix of Academy youngsters and Standard Liege misfits. OK, so Charlton are bottom, but they are only four points from safety with three games in hand over Barnsley and Yeovil and four over the neext four teams. Rumour is that the new manager has already been chosen.

The Charlton fans love him, and so do we: see this thread from the City fans forum - http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/to...powell-sacked/

[Kevin Mcleod]

Even the biggest Harry haters must prefer him over Powell..

Bet they dont.

[Ginger Ninja]

Oh please god...please don't let us appoint Powell...
Id rather have Paul Hart back.