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Sheffield United have considered sacking Slavisa Jokanovic​

According to a report from The Athletic today, Sheffield United have already considered parting ways with manager Slavisa Jokanovic this season.

The Blades have picked up a very mediocre 20 points from 18 games this season under the Serbian. They sit 17th in the Championship table, just five points off the bottom three and a whopping 20 points off the top two.
But according to The Athletic, the defeat against Blackburn Rovers a few weeks back prompted talk of another managerial change. That day at Ewood Park was one of misery. The atmosphere was toxic in the away end, and United’s players were booed off.
 



Belvedere Blade said:

Sheffield United have considered sacking Slavisa Jokanovic​

According to a report from The Athletic today, Sheffield United have already considered parting ways with manager Slavisa Jokanovic this season.

The Blades have picked up a very mediocre 20 points from 18 games this season under the Serbian. They sit 17th in the Championship table, just five points off the bottom three and a whopping 20 points off the top two.
But according to The Athletic, the defeat against Blackburn Rovers a few weeks back prompted talk of another managerial change. That day at Ewood Park was one of misery. The atmosphere was toxic in the away end, and United’s players were booed off.
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Not happening
 
FinBlade said:
Before people dream of sacking Slav, is there really a manager who could make our current team get solid wins game after game?
I bet it won't be walk in a park for anyone atm..
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I want Slav to stay but as bad as we are I refuse to believe we're THIS bad! I can believe that the board have considered replacing him. I still think the board need to wait till the end of the season and see if we improve with new players in January and start a fresh next summer. If Hecky is the answer it would worry me we'll continue with Tufty ball and I just think that we need to move on from that and move several players who are now past their best.
 
It's so obviously the players.

I'm not going through the whole squad but at least half the team is made up from those who were once good but going backwards: Stevens, Egan, Norwood, Fleck, Hourihane, possibly Baldock and Bogle as well this season.

Then you have three who are hanging in there but not for much longer in Sharp, McGoldrick and Basham.

These are then supplemented by a few who flatter to deceive and who's reputation suggests they should be a cut above but are consistently not, in Mousset, McBurnie, Brewster, Berge, Olsen and maybe even Osborn.

The number of players in their prime giving their best is incredibly sparse.

What is disappointing as that you'd expect those at 29, 30 to be at their peak, not sliding down so rapidly.

But that's his hand. Maybe flirting between a longer term vision when the players you need haven't arrived and sticking to a system the current ones know, but whom registered 29/38 defeats last term.

He's got a very good track record. I don't see how moving to someone with less credentials improves our lot. Either way the ins and outs has to be much better for any manager to succeed. Otherwise it's just all deck chairs on the Titanic.
 
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The guys been dealt a shite hand. Players have come in who haven't performed as expected and he arguably has lost (or never had) 2 of his most important players in Sander Berge and JOC. Were could we be in the league with these 2 players available for selection?

I do think the squad is in need of a serious over haul. No matter what happens this season.

As someone else mentioned, we need to keep the likes of Ndiaye and DJ and jettison the dead wood. I would say minimum 3 or 4 windows to build again.
 
At some stage the managers individual competence becomes irrelevant to the situation. For whatever reason right or wrong the truth is that it’s just not working. It’s unrealistic to think we can completely clean out the current squad, and so we have to accept that we probably need a new man in to get more out of the current group.
 
Does this feel a bit like the last Championship relegation season, when nobody was truly upset that Speed left? And indeed that Wales paid to take him off our hands?
 
Which game did they watch at the weekend Billy Sharp was gash and hardly had a kick all afternoon, star performer my arse.
 
London based Blade said:
At some stage the managers individual competence becomes irrelevant to the situation. For whatever reason right or wrong the truth is that it’s just not working. It’s unrealistic to think we can completely clean out the current squad, and so we have to accept that we probably need a new man in to get more out of the current group.
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One of the main attributes in any manager in any business is to recruit the right people for the job and then to get the best out of them.
Judge this man when he has had two windows and a summer of preparation: say October 2022.
 



Snowflake said:
One of the main attributes in any manager in any business is to recruit the right people for the job and then to get the best out of them.
Judge this man when he has had two windows and a summer of preparation: say October 2022.
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Fair point. I would say that football seems to be somewhat of an anomaly compared the business world though. It’s a tough call with no clear solution either way.
 
London based Blade said:
Fair point. I would say that football seems to be somewhat of an anomaly compared the business world though. It’s a tough call with no clear solution either way.
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You and others keep repeating this line, judge when two transfer windows, but where do you think the money will come for these glory transfer windows? It ain't there. Pie in sky to think otherwise. In the meantime, someone has to get the team better.
 
billyblademan said:
Does this feel a bit like the last Championship relegation season, when nobody was truly upset that Speed left? And indeed that Wales paid to take him off our hands?
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If there weren’t points deductions flying around and Hull and Peterborough in the division I think it would feel very much like a relegation season.
 
derekacorah said:
If there weren’t points deductions flying around and Hull and Peterborough in the division I think it would feel very much like a relegation season.
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It crossed my mind at numerous points on Saturday, I must say. Question is if we do get involved, have we got the fight for a relegation battle? Really not so sure myself.
 
billyblademan said:
It crossed my mind at numerous points on Saturday, I must say. Question is if we do get involved, have we got the fight for a relegation battle? Really not so sure myself.
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We have definitely not got the bottle for it. When you break it down as someone has done above with the players at our disposal most are now seeing out fat contracts before moving on.

The ‘better’ players we’ve signed are either injured, wank, unfit or seeing their contracts out.

The older players who actually give a shit can’t win games themselves anymore.

We’ve got MGW as a game changer and he’s on loan.

It’s bleak.
 
billyblademan said:
Does this feel a bit like the last Championship relegation season, when nobody was truly upset that Speed left? And indeed that Wales paid to take him off our hands?
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Nothing like imho.

That relegation was firmly the fault of the board.

Wrong choices from appointing Robson, to the timing of Blackwell's sacking, and the yoyoing of management styles in that period.

Adjusting from Wilders style to Slav's style shouldn't be that difficult with the influx of a few players.

Sadly Vieira didn't come off, whether the winger from Spain was the right type i don't know, Berge is always injured, Moose is always injured.....

Some of our disappointing performances are similar to under the last two managers.

Under Robson it was clear he wasn't getting the best out of the squad.

I'm not convinced any manager will get much better results at present.

The options are to be tighter at the back which may well result in losing fewer matches with these players but I don't see us scoring anywhere near enough. We miss too many chances playing a more expansive game as it is.

People are deciding they know what January will bring when in reality they don't.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I'm not sure why those who advocate a change are confident it would herald an improvement.
 
If Slav walks away the reason could be the prince has told him.no money available for transfers. so another manager comes nowt available for players. I don,t see any manager who will join us under those circumstances.so Heckinbottom will take over. two seasons ago the future is bright and red and white.to now the future is very uncertain.
 
Think Id take a entertaining mid table team to watch right now. We’re far too boring to watch week in week out, the build up play is terrible, substitutions are bizarre and we’re nearly at the busy Christmas period and he hasn’t got a clue what his best formation is never mind starting 11.

Hiring and firing has never proved to be the right way to go, unless you’ve got a billionaire owner like Chelsea, but I’m worried about this team under Slav. We’re all giving him the benefit of the doubt based on his past success, maybe this is justified but I’m worrying about the present & not interested in the past
 
I have seen People saying “write this seaon off until Slav can get the players in to play his way”

This ignores two things..

1. Do these people think we can’t get relegated this season?

2. How the hell is Slav going to get his own players in when we are skint?

We are stuck with a lot of these players combined with a few loans until at least the end of this season and maybe another season for some of them, if we want to avoid the disaster of relegation the manager has to get a tune out of this lot, if he can’t then we need to find someone who can..

At the moment we are sleep walking into a relegation battle.. and I don’t think this lot have a battle in them.
 
Simon Redshaw said:
You and others keep repeating this line, judge when two transfer windows, but where do you think the money will come for these glory transfer windows? It ain't there. Pie in sky to think otherwise. In the meantime, someone has to get the team better.
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Where did the money come from when we got Duffy, Fleck, Egan, Basham, McGoldrick and Sharp ? No one is asking for “glory windows”, just a mixture of quality loans and players to develop.
You don’t have to pay several millions if your scouting and recruitment gets the job done.
We are no longer the recipients of huge net income, so the concept of buying our way back into the Premiership doesn’t exist.
 
Champagneblade said:
It's so obviously the players.

I'm not going through the whole squad but at least half the team is made up from those who were once good but going backwards: Stevens, Egan, Norwood, Fleck, Hourihane, possibly Baldock and Bogle as well this season.

Then you have three who are hanging in there but not for much longer in Sharp, McGoldrick and Basham.

These are then supplemented by a few who flatter to deceive and who's reputation suggests they should be a cut above but are consistently not, in Mousset, McBurnie, Brewster, Berge, Olsen and maybe even Osborn.

The number of players in their prime giving their best is incredibly sparse.

What is disappointing as that you'd expect those at 29, 30 to be at their peak, not sliding down so rapidly.

But that's his hand. Maybe flirting between a longer term vision when the players you need haven't arrived and sticking to a system the current ones know, but whom registered 29/38 defeats last term.

He's got a very good track record. I don't see how moving to someone with less credentials improves our lot. Either way the ins and outs has to be much better for any manager to succeed. Otherwise it's just all deck chairs on the Titanic.
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I think you should have left Bogle & Osborn out of it, they are still young enough to improve, and both always give their "all" even if it doesn't always work for them.
 
I have voted in on the basis that I am still hoping for the bog roll to hit the panic button and find a buyer either this season or early next and then hopefully see what Slav can do if he is backed. As for Heckingturd, it's a huge NO from me, but will happen if potless can't find an investor or buyer soon.
 
Prem owner needed said:
I have voted in on the basis that I am still hoping for the bog roll to hit the panic button and find a buyer either this season or early next and then hopefully see what Slav can do if he is backed. As for Heckingturd, it's a huge NO from me, but will happen if potless can't find an investor or buyer soon.
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Heckingturd? Can you remind me what Heckingbottoms done wrong during his employment period at the club?
 
The Prince didn't like the way CW talked down the players as he thought that it devalued the roster (hate that word) seeing as the majority of these players finished 9th in the prem the season before.

I don't know if the report by the Athletic is well founded or not but i would think that the Prince would firstly not be happy with the league position as he feels these players are top 6 standards (stating the obvious i know) but also that he isn't impressed that Slav isn't regularly playing Brewster and McBurnie . Even if Slav thinks they are rubbish the Prince will not want the biggest assets he has forked out for left on the sidelines becoming more devalued especially as there is very little likelihood of more investment in the team in Jan without selling off first.
 



Doesn’t matter what manager we have.

If the finances aren’t made available for a rebuild of our bottom-end Championship squad then that’s where we’ll remain no matter who is at the helm.
 
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