Topic: Inter Miami? Who are they? Exactly…

[MrGrumpy]

For reasons unknown, I watched an Inter Miami game on telly a while back, they were bloody awful. Much like Fat Frank, Phil Neville’s managerial career has been due to his name rather than his aptitude for the job. Like Lampard, we have not seen the last of him as a manager.

[kellan]

The only thing surprising me about his sacking is that I genuinely thought he must have already got the boot two years ago.

[Crosby Nick]

Is Beckham still involved there? Please tell me he was the one to fire him.

[So… Howard Philips]

Don’t forget he’s an Everton legend.

Red Sean had better watch out.

[Chris~]

Is Beckham still involved there? Please tell me he was the one to fire him.

Yes and probably yes

Sometimes in this game we have to make the toughest decisions," said the club's co-owner David Beckham.

"Sadly we feel the time is right to make a change. I want to personally thank Phil for his hard work, his passion for our club and for his integrity as a person."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65784220

[Keith Lard]

Wally is sacked.

And Beckham acting all corporate chairman with his formal statements.

This is what can happen when high profile ex footballers get money and status. Makes you cringe. But it’s car crash entertainment.

[RedSince86]

He'll worm his way into a job in English Football with ease due to the rewarding failure mantra the Chairman here follow.

[thaddeus]

They might end up with a talented manager now instead of one of Beckham's mates.  It was funny reading Beckham trying to come across like a serious businessman.

Is England an outlier in that none of the "golden generation" of players has cut it as a manager?  Gerrard probably has one more shot at it and Carrick seems to be doing OK at Middlesbrough.  That's about it though really with Fowler, Campbell, both Nevilles, Scholes and Lampard all pretty much bombing as managers.  Considering the doors opened by being a former England international I'd have expected some to have made it as managers.

[Keith Lard]

They might end up with a talented manager now instead of one of Beckham's mates.  It was funny reading Beckham trying to come across like a serious businessman.

Is England an outlier in that none of the "golden generation" of players has cut it as a manager?  Gerrard probably has one more shot at it and Carrick seems to be doing OK at Middlesbrough.  That's about it though really with Fowler, Campbell, both Nevilles, Scholes and Lampard all pretty much bombing as managers.  Considering the doors opened by being a former England international I'd have expected some to have made it as managers.

Proof, if ever we needed it, that playing and managing are extremely different skill sets. In fact, being a top player almost seems a hinderance for most.

[Black Bull Nova]

Manchester United have quite a track record of producing ex players who could not manage that well, Giggs, Scholes, Nevilles, Charlton, Solskjaer, Bruce , Fegruson Jnr, Keane, Hughes, Robson, Ince, Webb, Phelan, Forlan, Rooney

Carrick is doing a decent job though as is Robins, Strachan did ok

[FiSh77]

Manchester United have quite a track record of producing ex players who could not manage that well, Giggs, Scholes, Nevilles, Charlton, Solskjaer, Bruce , Fegruson Jnr, Keane, Hughes, Robson, Ince, Webb, Phelan, Forlan, Rooney

Carrick is doing a decent job though as is Robins, Strachan did ok

I'd argue that Oleh did a cracking job

[Mahern]

Manchester United have quite a track record of producing ex players who could not manage that well, Giggs, Scholes, Nevilles, Charlton, Solskjaer, Bruce , Fegruson Jnr, Keane, Hughes, Robson, Ince, Webb , Phelan, Forlan, Rooney

Carrick is doing a decent job though as is Robins, Strachan did ok

Worse PGMOL manager than Riley

[bird_lfc]

He'll worm his way into a job in English Football with ease due to the rewarding failure mantra the Chairman here follow.

Unless it’s Salford, I doubt it. He did a poor job by all accounts with England and has had a shocked in the US

[Caligula?]

To be fair Phil Neville never looked like the sharpest tool in the shed anway