[niallo27]

Originally Posted by BaZmO*

And what have they achieved? Football is a results game.



Go back and read my post again. Good lad.

Well i would count Holland as an excellent team, but what have they achievied, one euro championship 24 years ago.

[BaZmO*]

Originally Posted by niallo27

Well i would count Holland as an excellent team, but what have they achievied, one euro championship 24 years ago.

Better than England that's for sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherl...etitive_record

[kippy]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Iovine

Ha it'd have been awfully cunty of them to give Roy exactly a 2 year deal. It'd be expiring before the next World Cup.

Anyway I don't think contracts mean all that much these days anyway. Teams are willing to pay compensation to get a manager and teams are also willing to just dump managers at a seconds notice.

What?
Contracts mean big pay offs for managers when thing invariably don't work out (for whatever reason).

The FA giving Roy a 4 year deal was absolutely epic work on behalf of his agents.
Roy and his management team made about 9 million from getting fired from Liverpool after 6 months and if he gets fired here he'll probably make more and be free to got back into management of a club again.

Roy does well motivating average players at clubs/teams with fans with realistic expectations.
England have a lot of average players so on that side its a good thing for england, however a lot of fans/media have very unrealistic expectations.

Fair play to Roy, more power to him, seems like a nice chap who can have some success.

[Jimmy Iovine]

Originally Posted by plasmaguy

Fine, 2 and a bit years contract, you knew what I meant anyways, international managers contracts tend to end soon after major championships, and his 4 years one would end soon after 2016 Euros.

4 years is an eternity in international management.

I was only having a laugh.

It's a very long time alright. I've never really heard of a 2-year contract bar Trapattoni's one. I'm sure there is a clause somewhere in it that states they'll review his performance after the 2014 WC.

Also the 4 year deal could be meant as a statement of intent by the FA. The last thing they want is question marks over their managers future before he's even started.

Anyway it's not the worst contract of all time. That is reserved for Eddie O'Sullivan. Handed a 4-year contract right before the '07 WC by the IRFU.