Ex-Hammers manager Slaven Billic has been sacked by West Bromwich Albion, after 18 months in charge, with the club 19th in the Premier League. The Baggies have only gathered seven points from 13 league games, with eight defeats, though they earned a surprise 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Tuesday. Billic is the first coach to be sacked so far in the Barclays Premier League this season.
Assistant coaches Dean Racunica and Danilo Butorovic also depart, as does first-team coach Julian Dicks. Tuesday's match was the Bilic's 100th Premier League game as a manager. He led The Irons from June 2015 to November 2017, taking the club into a Europe as they finished seventh in his final full season, recording their highest placing since 2002. Prior to that, he had led Croatia to two European Championships, with a quarter-final appearance in 2008 coming after they had knocked England out in the qualifiers.
What on earth do the board at West Brom think a miserly transfer budget was ever going to do except end up with relegation flirtation? Billic is still immensly popular with Hammers fans, he can consider himself harshly dealt with when you look at say, Sheffield United! We wish 'super' slav all the best, as do almost all West Ham fans.
Big Sam is heading the list of the 'usual suspects' to take over at the Hawthorns. - Ed
Comments
Whatever your views
Slav was & is a decent bloke,Sam in the frame or will he go to the Arse!!;)
Sorry
for Slav a real gent with passion
Always loved Slav. A proper
Always loved Slav. A proper bloke who told it how it was. Wore his heart on his sleeve. Sad for him really as has been said WTF did the board expect. I hope Fat Sam takes the job and gets it firmly shoved up his sphincter when they go down!!!
You just knew Sam
Would get the job,good luck Westbrom your gonna need it with the hoofball expert
Good bloke Slav,sad when he
Good bloke Slav,sad when he left us,his first season with us,was the last season at the Boleyn,then we went to the BOM,and that put pay to that,makes you wonder if we stayed where we were,he may of still been with us.
shame
nice bloke but a short shelf life on the club level, maybe he should have stayed national coach of Croatia?
Chucking Bell!
Its Fatydice thats got his job!!!
Crap manager
Clueless with tactics. Surprised he lasted as long as he has.
Nothing surprises me in this
Nothing surprises me in this dog eat dog prem world,slav takes sams job sam takes slavs job, crazy.
Difference is
Sam left Slav a decent team. What's Slav left Sam??
Yea clever that of Slav. He
Yea clever that of Slav. He knew Allardyce would be his successor, so he purposely spent f*all in the transfers window, even though the West Brom owners were begging to sign big name players. Poor old Sam walked into that one hook line and sinker. I wonder if he’ll, be able to do it? That reputation for only being employed by desperate clubs, willing to sacrifice all footballing morals, could be in doubt now. Anyway gonna be another few quid his way I suppose, good luck to him, it’s the only work he can get. He’s like the builder that comes in and does the fixings, never the one who lays the foundations. Watch his son’s clients all joining West Brom in January, kerching!
Hes more like
The bloke who does the snagging at the end of the job!! He had 1 chance at the lucrative listed building,but ended up pinching all the materials & got the tin tack!!
well w.b a
wont need their midfield any more with sam in charge and maybe haller could fit in
Let's hope
Ayew doesn't score the winner, again
Watched the Man City v West
Watched the Man City v West Brom game. Slaven did a great job with organizing them to cope with Man City and take a valuable point. It was ridiculous to fire him at that stage as any manager and owner should have been proud of going to Ethihad and getting any spoils from there. They should have given him an opportunity to prove his managerial skills until at least after the New Year's Day matches. Sam will induce a totally boring style of play with probably a very defensive style of play and the January transfer window with the recruitment of defensive reinforcements only.