Cardiff Sacking Malky Mackay

Outrageous.

Someone ought to remind the chairman that its Cardiff City (not Manchester Utd) and they are in their first ever season in the top flight football. What the hell does the chairman expect? Who could have done as well as Mackay to this point?
 
On the other hand any manager in industry or commerce who had gone over budget to the extent that Mackay has allegedly done would find his coat on a very shaky nail.
 
MetalMickie said:
On the other hand any manager in industry or commerce who had gone over budget to the extent that Mackay has allegedly done would find his coat on a very shaky nail.
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Why was he not fired as soon as the window closed and it was clear he was supposedly overspent? Who authorised the last purchases that created the supposed overspend?

Strikes me as the excuse they are using, not the real reason for his desired sacking.
 
Have just heard Brendan Rogers criticise the Cardiff owner for being "a businessman who knows nothing about football".

Imagine the uproar if Rogers or any other manager was accused of being "a football man who knows nothing about business".

There have been very few managers who did not want "just a couple more players" whilst giving little or no consideration to the financial consequences.
 
The guy is a loon, a total basket case. How the hell can he accuse Mackay of overspending? Who signed the cheques? At least for the rest of the premier league thats one of the relegation spots firmly taken up.
 
SaintHacker said:
The guy is a loon, a total basket case. How the hell can he accuse Mackay of overspending? Who signed the cheques? At least for the rest of the premier league thats one of the relegation spots firmly taken up.
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The deals are likely to have been sanctioned by the Chief Executive with the owner's knowledge.

But the last straw appears to have been Mackay going public over plans for the Club to spend yet more money in January despite knowing they were already significantly overspent.

This is the problem that football now faces when it attempts to act like a business yet employs senior officers (Managers) who have little or no business accumen.
 
Mackay spent the budget he was given on the players - the £15million overspend was the addons - Agents fees!!! etc that were authorised by the Finance Director who was sacked ealier in the year.

I suspect Mackay has been given the boot now as he said last week he needed to buy some players in January and it will be the usual story of a team that just sacked the manager will do us over at Anfield on Saturday!
 
MetalMickie said:
The deals are likely to have been sanctioned by the Chief Executive with the owner's knowledge.

But the last straw appears to have been Mackay going public over plans for the Club to spend yet more money in January despite knowing they were already significantly overspent.

This is the problem that football now faces when it attempts to act like a business yet employs senior officers (Managers) who have little or no business accumen.
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Or you could have the Spurs model where you have a shrewd business man (Levy) with a Director of football who both know nothing about football!

There needs to be salary and transfer caps imposed and the transfer window should also apply to managers.
 
just shows all that glitters aint gold .. big money investment is good , but only if its in the right way ..

wonder if spurs will look at him

West Brom maybe ?
 
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jpenno said:
Or you could have the Spurs model where you have a shrewd business man (Levy) with a Director of football who both know nothing about football!

There needs to be salary and transfer caps imposed and the transfer window should also apply to managers.
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I agree with you over salary caps but not transfers as I think they will now soon disappear. Don't exist in many other professional team sports.

The difficulty appears to be reconciling football's "spend, spend, spend" attitude with longer term business conduct.
 
He was always on borrowed time, the clubs fans must be wondering what next!
 
Hi just letting everyone interested know if he doesn't resign he will get the sack but I suppose a "forced" resignation is just as bad as the "boot" itself
 
monktonhallgc1882 said:
Hi just letting everyone interested know if he doesn't resign he will get the sack but I suppose a "forced" resignation is just as bad as the "boot" itself
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Yup - he hasn't actually gone............yet!

Boy, am I glad that my team is run by sensible locals (for the time being anyhow). I feel a bit for fans of Cardiff/Hull tbh.
 
Didn't Palace also fire the manager that got them promoted ?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
One of those mutual consent things we see in football now ?
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That's the usual official statement - whether sacked or not.I guess the evidence is the pay off but this of course is never made public.

Its not managerial changes however. Its changing the name (e.g. Hull Tigers) or the kit (the not so Bluebirds) or some other part of the clubs history.
 
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