Former Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is now odds-on favourite to become the new Fulham manager – despite winning just THREE games in 21 attempts during his miserable stint with West Brom last season.
The cottagers find themselves bottom of the Premier League with a dreadful return of 5 points from their opening 12 games and after an outlay of over £100m on new players in the summer, boss Slaviša Jokanović is rightly under pressure.
If he is to be sacked, doing so during the international break would make sense – but what wouldn’t, surely, is turning to former Toon boss Pardew.
He's ODDS-ON to take the job #WBAhttps://t.co/ZPYAX77vTP
— West Brom News (@WestBromNews) November 12, 2018
Pardew did finish 5th during his stint on Tyneside as he enjoyed the classic ‘Pardew bounce’ – a sharp upturn in results after joining a new club before it going badly wrong from there. Something I am sure Crystal Palace, Reading, Southampton and West Ham fans will agree with.
However, he didn’t even have this at West Brom and effectively took them down after they finished mid-table the previous season.
He talks a good game but quite why a club in trouble would turn to a manager who was given a similar role last year, and failed miserably, is beyond me.
That’s them down then only two relegation places to fill Southampton and Cardiff my guess half
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