Mailbag: Who's getting sacked this international break?
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What is the premise of the Mailbag episode and why is the international break important?
Hello everybody, welcome to the Football Ramble Mailbag. Managers under pressure, Everton and Birds are the orders of the day. It's Tuesday, twenty-second of September. I'm Marcus Speller, I'm Jim Campbell, and I'm Venus and Hunter Raja.
Whoa, everybody, it's uh Tuesday, a terrific Tuesday here at the Football Ramble, no doubt. You're very welcome. Thanks for coming. Um this is the Football Ramble mailbag where you ask us questions and we attempt to answer them. Let's hope the attempts are good today. You can message us on XBlueSky, yeah, still doing it, or Instagram at FootballRamble. Someone someone has to, don't they? Yeah. Oh, they had a go. And you know what? It was a worthwhile cause because the musketeer. you know, dirtied up Twitter or X, then somebody had to do something. It's a shame it didn't work out. But there we are. Uh you can comment on YouTube. We're battling on.
How many managerial sackings have historically occurred during the October vs. November international breaks?
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Pay us money and you'll be fine. Rob has emailed old Robbie Baby. This is obviously a longer international break than we've had in the past. Yeah, much has been made about that, Rob, and there's been a lot of disrespectful comments, but anyway, we press on. Which managers in the Premier League are most under pressure of getting the chop? And are there any managers who you thought might have been in trouble whose performances have helped themselves?
So I think it s might sound mad or certainly the idea might sound mad that any Premier League manager is under pressure at the moment. But three weeks is ages in chairman years. Easy.
Yeah. And also, um, I uh I I remember talking to a mate of mine who worked at Norwich City for quite a few years where they had a big turnover and he said one of the things that he noticed players were doing, particularly when they were like in the bad books of a manager, is because they had to constantly come into training and they'd get more FaceTime or certainly they'd be seen a bit more, they realised that they would just make the manager more angry. So they try and find ways of avoiding them by coming in like at different entrances to make sure that the manager didn't see them as much so they didn't rile them up even more.
Which Premier League managers are under the most pressure heading into the November break?
Oh god. Um and I like the idea that a manager would have to do that with a chairman, be like, Oh god, he's gonna he's definitely gonna find me. He's definitely gonna find him. If he sees too much of me he's gonna find me. So it might work remotely today. Yeah. Yeah, I'll get a cabin today. Oh my I'm just going away to watch another club who aren't also playing shit.
Um The the the stats on this are interesting because you've obviously got a longer international break, um this time round, um into October. And there's another one, believe it or not, a month later in November. Give the people what they want, Jim. Give the people what you want. Um exactly. Um In the Premier League in the last ten years, there has only been two managerial departures in the October international break, whereas there's been six in the November one. So make what you will of that, but it suggests to me Statistically, that November is the crucial one. Yeah. Uh or is more crucial, should I say. So who do you think is under most pressure, Vish, going in to this international break?
Why is Michael Carrick considered the most vulnerable manager right now?
We y y y you know, looking at the table I mean th I suppose the teams really you may want to suggest somebody else, but I could would imagine that the four managers that people will be looking at are Michael Carrick, Roberta de Zerbi, Alvaro Albaloa, and the another one, uh Pierre Sarge.
Pierre Sarge may be throw Oliver Glasner in there, just 'cause it's
I yeah yeah always sa a safe bet, whoever happens to be forest manager. Yeah, I I I The fact that Sarge has been talked about by in in other reports suggests that yeah, we might as well talk about him here, I think.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of the Mailbag episode and why is the international break important?
0:00–1:03
2
How many managerial sackings have historically occurred during the October vs. November international breaks?
1:03–2:40
3
Which Premier League managers are under the most pressure heading into the November break?
2:40–3:44
4
Why is Michael Carrick considered the most vulnerable manager right now?
3:44–5:09
5
How has Fulham’s new manager Alvaro Albaloa performed and what are the ‘green shoots’?
5:09–6:21
6
Can Everton’s recent form and player performances lift them out of the relegation battle?
6:21–8:39
7
If every football club opened a restaurant, which club would have the worst menu and why?
8:39–9:36
8
Would you rather be pecked by a magpie or a seagull – and what does that say about football fans?
9:36–37:05