TheTransferWindow Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Klinsmann has a job. California is his home and he has the only job outside of MLS that allows him to stay there. He's not going to abandon the USA job right at the start of 2014 qualifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaizend Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 This plot is worse than Tolkein's Lord of the Rings Eh? That's one of the best plots of all time, plus it had a happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Eh? That's one of the best plots of all time, plus it had a happy ending. True but it's long and drawn out & has lots of twists & turns - plus OGS does remind me of a Frodo Baggins type. Frodo may well have got his reward on this occasion too.... a huge big payrise of Rokke - hence the meal in Oslo with his wife! Who knows?!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Personally i think it's over now. All these people like @Fourth_Official saying "Lets all calm down and wait and see" are just talking bollocks now. It was fun while it lasted and i'm gutted he's not coming, but i think it's curtains for this story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 It can't be about money, Norway is a rich country but the money is not in football. Villa would always offer him more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The rumours were that OGS was on Klinsman's recommendation to Lerner. He apparently is very good friends with Randy in the US. Someone mentioned Joachim Low to me the other day as a possible candidate that fitted TT's cryptic clue, but I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebsen Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Since it is way past midnite it's time for some conspiracy theories: OGS will be the new Villa manager, but not until the season starts. He coaching staff will leave Molde and start pre-season without him. He'll take over when Molde has found a suitable replacement. OGS clearly said he wanted the job and would leave with his english staff and possibly one of the players with him. Presumable the staff want to leave too. He doesn't live in Molde by the way, but in Kristiansund, a dreary place. Røkke knows he made an ass of himself and needs to save face, but can't let OGS leave right now, but is willing to compromise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 It can't be about money, Norway is a rich country but the money is not in football. Villa would always offer him more money. I am surprised as anyone. Only tonight I had a phone call to say that most of the staff at VP were expecting OGS. t appears that Mat Kendrick was too by his earlier tweets. Last Summer it was similar with David Moyes but in the end it appears Everton dug their heels in & persuaded him to stay put. However not many are party to the inner sanctum at VP as MM called it earlier. Mat Kendrick broke the story first so this has I would imagine definitely come from the horses mouth that he's turned it down or Villa have decided to look elsewhere & for him to bow out gracefully. It might be OGS or it might be MoldeFK refusing or persuading him not to go. I can't see anything else but that this is over... but who knows?.... whatever happens we've come damn close to landing OGS and this must have been a 99% done deal, last minute pull out literally because Gazton would not stick his neck out on VT I'm sure a few days ago. Even the Norwegian press are gobsmacked by tonight's developments it seems by the reactions on twitter. One thing is for sure though... that when you compare things the way RL conducts proceedings to what's going on with Liverpool who can't even be bothered to hold court in the UK but are insisting all of their candidates fly to Boston for their interviews like some sort of a parade.............it's hardly surprising managers like Martinez and Rogers weren't very keen. Bad employers and good employers SOON get identified in football like every other profession. Talksport were on about this earlier. Randy had the decency to send his jet to pick up OGS from Norway to fly him into B'ham in order that he could get back as soon as poss after they held talks.....as Molde had an imminent game. OGS said in interview he would have always had regrets if he hadn't come and talked to Villa and if he has decided not to want the job anymore to manage AVFC then maybe he will come to regret his decision in years to come. However maybe he wanted lots of money to spend and wasn't prepared to work within a wage budget to meet the UEFA fair play rules coming in next year. Although coming from MoldeFK again I find that pretty hard to figure out personally. Maybe in coming days and weeks the ITKs may find out what's gone on and explain. Curiouser and curiouser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 One thing is for sure though... that when you compare things the way RL conducts proceedings to what's going on with Liverpool who can't even be bothered to hold court in the UK but are insisting all of their candidates fly to Boston for their interviews like some sort of a parade.............it's hardly surprising managers like Martinez and Rogers weren't very keen. Bad employers and good employers SOON get identified in football like every other profession. Having been to Boston on many an occasion, I can confirm that I wouldn't be interested in that job either. And I don't even have an ocean to fly over to get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpabloangel18 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Hard not to be gutted. Gotta go all-out for Lambert now IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Having been to Boston on many an occasion, I can confirm that I wouldn't be interested in that job either. And I don't even have an ocean to fly over to get there. They're not too keen on the Brits in tea party land are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Having been to Boston on many an occasion, I can confirm that I wouldn't be interested in that job either. And I don't even have an ocean to fly over to get there. They're not too keen on the Brits in tea party land are they? They're not to keen on anybody in Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 edit, irrelevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompedyret Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Oh, I see. If you run this article from Tidens Krav (main local paper) trough Google Translate without knowing Norwegian it appears plain that OGS has indeed confirmed his alleged "no". In reality it's a Google **** up. The message is about the opposite, namely that OGS consciously avoided confirming it when confronted with Bryan Doogan's claim, referring to a forthcoming PC after Molde pratice tomorrow (or today, if you like!). Not that I think it matters, but I wonder how many journos getting fooled by that error. (edit: rewording) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Having been to Boston on many an occasion, I can confirm that I wouldn't be interested in that job either. And I don't even have an ocean to fly over to get there. They're not too keen on the Brits in tea party land are they? They're not to keen on anybody in Boston. Going by your handle, maybe you just expect people not to like you? Julie, the only place in Boston you might get grief for you accent would be in South Boston and a few other Irish-American neighborhoods. But because Boston is so international these days, most people wouldn't even bat an eye. I know plenty of Brits who live over here, and they love Boston. People from the northeast are sometimes considered rude by other Americans, but I think we're just more straightforward and don't sugarcoat things. And FWIW, none of the Liverpool owners are from Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioVilla Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 No, people in the Northeast are just very rude and aggressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjinus Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 No, people in the Northeast are just very rude and aggressive. It can appear that way but once you break through the frosty exterior there are some really nice people in New England...I should know I married one of them ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoD Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I don't like how this search is going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Is there actual verified quotes from OGS or Villa rep that OGS has pulled out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Who knows Jarpie? It all seems like a big old bundle of he said/she said run through a filter of Twitter and Babelfish. I guess some sort of formal semblance of the facts will become known after the OGS presser today. It would be good to get a definitive idea of where the manager search is at though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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