Alan Curbishley and Kevin Keegan have already left Premier League clubs this season as manager, and the bookmakers can smell the blood of a Spaniard at White Hart Lane. Juande Ramos is strong odds-on with a number of firms to be the next gaffer to walk out of the exit door, with a certain national team manager rumoured to be first in line to succeed him. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Slaven Bilic, the Croatia manager, got his excuses in early yesterday when he had a whinge and a moan about the two Spurs players in his squad, and the adverse effect they may have on the rest of his men. [Read the rest of this entry »]

When it was announced that Steven Gerrard and Owen Hargreaves would be unavailable for England’s games against Andorra and Croatia, some members of the press had a field day. All of a sudden, two of the biggest Premier League clubs in the land were sticking their middle finger in the direction of Fabio Capello and telling him to ‘go swivel’. [Read the rest of this entry »]

It’s only a handful of days until the next round of Premier League fixtures resume, and it sounds as though the Hammers and Magpies are stepping up the chase for a new gaffer. Unfortunately, they both seem to be going for the same candidate, someone’s going to be disappointed! [Read the rest of this entry »]

When does no actually mean maybe? Perhaps when an opportunity arises to manage a Premier League team for a much bigger chunk of cash than your currently manage a national side. It’s clear who West Ham’s number one target is to replace Alan Curbishley, although do they stand a chance of luring him to the Boleyn Ground? [Read the rest of this entry »]

When a manager leaves a Premier League club, the bookmakers are always quick to price up some odds on who his replacement will be. Indeed, they got ahead of themselves by offering prices on the next Newcastle boss, although a day later they were able to get cracking on the West Ham gig instead. The man who was top of their list? [Read the rest of this entry »]

It looked as though Kevin Keegan was going to be the first Premier League manager out of job this season, although Alan Curbishley has beaten him to it by a whisker. The now-former West Ham gaffer has had his resignation accepted by the board, bringing a 17-month rollercoaster to an end and leaving the east London club looking for a replacement. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Slaven Bilic,coach of Craotia and former West Ham and Everton defender has waltzed into Scotland for an International friendly game and started batting his eyelids towards the Old Firm. Although Bilic has again pledged his loyalty to Croatia and has claimed that he wants to manage them beyond Euro 2008 and into the World Cup qualifiers, he still reckons that one call from Rangers or Celtic would have any sane manager sprinting towards Glasgow with the frenzied speed of a doped up sprinter. Bilic said:

“I have said that I want to stay as a manager and I am enjoying my time with the players.

“We have a young team with great young players coming through and all the players can play in the World Cup qualifiers when they start, apart from maybe one or two.

“Therefore I am enjoying my time here and I want to stay if they offer me a new contract which they are probably going to do.

“Scotland does not have the best league in the world but put it this way, there is no trainer or manager in the world who, if called by Rangers or Celtic, would not walk to Glasgow.”

Would anybody be surprised if we saw this chain smoker puffing away in a Glaswegian dugout next autumn?

According to Rupert Murdoch’s latest Internet plaything, Football365, Croatia coach Slaven Bilic turned his nose up at a job offer from Fulham. The ex-West Ham and Everton defender revealed:

“If I was after the money, I would have accepted the first offers that came my way from Mohamed Al Fayed (Fulham’s chairman) and others.

“If I have to explain my position every time I cross the border, no problem. I’ve been to London privately a few times before.”

And Bilic revealed that although he has been travelling to the UK a lot recently, that was merely to check up on the form of some of his young Croatian charges. So Bilic turned down the Fulham job – can anyone actually blame him?

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