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Posted by: Mack 27th September 2016, 11:28 AM

As some people may have heard this morning England manager Sam Allardyce is facing questions over an supposed £400,000 deal and offered advice on how to deal with "FA rules" over player transfers regarding third-party ownership according to the Daily Telegraph.

What do you think will happen to him?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-investigation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale/

Posted by: richie 27th September 2016, 12:35 PM

He'll probably get off, but he'll have that hanging over him for the whole time he's in the job (unlikely to be beyond his contract).

Either that or they'll kick him out and he'll rejoin Sunderland as boss around Christmas time when Moyes is given the heave-ho.

Posted by: Mack 27th September 2016, 06:32 PM

Apparently he has been sacked not sure about evidence yet according to sources.

Posted by: Rooney 27th September 2016, 06:34 PM

The evidence to me is pretty damning. I'm sure he will be leaving my mutual consent - it's farcical. Pure greed from Sam, but he's always been a dodgy guy as shown by the Panorama thing about 10 years ago. Apparently the Telegraph will be naming 10 other managers involved too (Sam Allardyce is probably the biggest fish).

Steve Bruce to take over surely...

Posted by: Suedehead2 27th September 2016, 06:40 PM

What an absolute farce.

Posted by: Mack 27th September 2016, 06:52 PM

It's official from the FA.

Posted by: Ðøßßø 27th September 2016, 06:52 PM

Well that didn't last long!

But yeah his place was pretty untenable after that. Look forward to whoever comes in next & plays exactly the same way in the next qualifier.

Posted by: Silas 27th September 2016, 07:00 PM

This is actually hilarious. What a complete dipshit. Fair play to the FA for acting so swiftly.

Posted by: Martyn 27th September 2016, 07:24 PM

How can someone who earns so much money be after more still?

Posted by: Mart!n 27th September 2016, 07:40 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37483344

Just read about it, ha... good riddance, hopefully now we get a decent manager, shortest ever England Manager

Posted by: Houdini 27th September 2016, 07:41 PM

So Sunderland have ended up with David Moyes for nothing? that is well and truly peak!

Posted by: Mart!n 27th September 2016, 08:27 PM

England will play Malta a week on Saturday, should walk it even without a manager, but I reckon Gareth Southgate will get in, I would prefer Steve Bruce.

Posted by: Mack 27th September 2016, 08:39 PM

Southgate has been confirmed for the next four games.

Posted by: Rooney 28th September 2016, 10:29 AM

The FA really love Southgate. Don't get me wrong, I think he's a smart choice for the interim as there is at least that bit of consistency with him being involved i the England set up. But as a long term choice, it doesn't really fill me with up confidence.

Posted by: Mack 28th September 2016, 11:53 AM

In today's Telegraph- eight unnamed Premier League managers have been accused of taking bungs.

Posted by: richie 28th September 2016, 12:30 PM

Exactly, although I think there was some compensation paid. But they're really struggling now after what became a very short pre-season. Should really pay more out in compensation if Sunderland go down this year.

Posted by: Suedehead2 28th September 2016, 02:20 PM

Sunderland haven't won a Premier League match in August or September for several seasons, so this season is simply going according to type at the moment.

Posted by: truly talented 28th September 2016, 04:43 PM

As a Sunderland fan I can't help but view this as Karma.

However this Life of Brian parody did make me chuckle.

https://www.facebook.com/www.JOE.co.uk/videos/708189882678414/

Posted by: jark 28th September 2016, 09:26 PM

Big Sam is an absolute moron and quite TOXIC at times but I actually feel bad for him. This is not good journalism, it's not exposing anything, it's just a tacky sting. He didn't even break the rules and in the quotes they elected to print only at the end of the article, even warned against doing so quite firmly. He doesn't deserve this.

Posted by: Suedehead2 28th September 2016, 09:47 PM

I'm sure the Telegraph had good reason to think that Allardyce would fall for their sting. They wouldn't just go ahead and try it without thinking there was a very good chance that they would get a story out of it.

Posted by: Rooney 28th September 2016, 10:11 PM

I disagree Jark, I think this is excellent journalism. Sam's only sorry because he's been caught out. It's clear this whole thing is part of something much larger. Lots of managers break rules and agents have way too much power. I think it's great to see. Sam's always been dodgy anyway, there was the whole agents/bribes thing, then there was the whole thing with him getting people to sign up with his personal agent and now this.

Posted by: jark 28th September 2016, 10:19 PM

Stings are rarely if ever excellent journalism. If you have to set up a fake scenario to lure somebody into a crime, and even then print the story in a salacious way that misrepresents what went down and heavily edits the quotes to stack opinion against your subject, you're morally way out of line and clearly not doing it for ethical reasons.

If Sam was involved in other dodgy stuff it wouldn't be hard for them to get a mic and record it. But they didn't. The Telegraph purport to be a serious newspaper but this is The Sun levels of distasteful.