Paintolerance
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Does anyone honestly think, if he had stayed, we had gone down, and Gibson had funded him to to the tune he did Monk, we wouldn't have been promoted?
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wilkos_perm
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It's impossible to say really
Jonny Ingbar
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The damage was already done before promotion and the PL season was so divisive amongst the players, there was no way back.
Paintolerance
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I think the club had lost their head, not him, but I take your point
wilkos_perm
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It's incredible. We were in the premier League, the biggest league in the world, there were plenty of managers we could've brought in.
Jedi boro
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There wasn’t even any club loyalty involved he has nothing to do with us yet bizarrely we sacrificed our prem future on him.
I’ll never understand that one.
Kelloe
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We had already agreed that Monk was coming in during the summer....
FullTiltTraore
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I'm hoping for the sake of my mental fortitude that there was a reason that Agnew stayed. That season I consumed all PL content in the hope of hearing about us as it was such a novelty and no one could understand it.
Any MANAGER not random coach could have helped us in that position we were in. Karanka loved him but his story ended with the Gaston/Gestede/Jese Rodriguez carry on. I loved AK but we have to move on to some one of his ilk and isn't a journeyman pick.
Right man at the right time.
Any MANAGER not random coach could have helped us in that position we were in. Karanka loved him but his story ended with the Gaston/Gestede/Jese Rodriguez carry on. I loved AK but we have to move on to some one of his ilk and isn't a journeyman pick.
Right man at the right time.
Glover_elbow
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Karanka would have struggled as much as Warnock with this seasons midfield instead of leadbitter and clayton. I think we overstate the influence of management on playing personnel. As a football club at present we have a unbalanced and weak squad in key areas unless that changes there's very little any manager can do.
Corcaigh_the_Cat
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He should have gone in the summer we were promoted. He'd already lost the plot.
parmoboy
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We were holding our own in the Premier League until Ramirez had his head turned.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing but if we'd have sold him and used the money to bring in just one of Karankas' signings, then I don't think he'd have lost his head, and we probably would have stayed up.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing but if we'd have sold him and used the money to bring in just one of Karankas' signings, then I don't think he'd have lost his head, and we probably would have stayed up.
spanishman
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Looks like he is a pundit on La Liga TV now.
locomansimon
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His management in the Premier league was appalling, we went down without trying to win only avoid losing and don't forget we only just got promotion with by far the best squad in the Championship
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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We would never have been promoted a second time with Karanka in charge.
He should have been sacked long before he was.
Not exactly set the world on fire since he left us has he.
He should have been sacked long before he was.
Not exactly set the world on fire since he left us has he.
WeeGord
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He's been to two basket case clubs, poor choices by him to go to them both but I certainly think his time at Boro holds much more sway.
I don't get the Karanka hate, since we were relegated with a whimper under Southgate the only consistently feel good times at the club where we really believed in ourselves and ability to achieve something was under Karanka.
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