Quote (zarkadon @ Feb 24 2014 08:40pm)
Mirandés 0 - 0 Mallorca
Yet antoher disapointing performance and result. I'm a bit late with this, but I didn't say anything yesterday because I was waiting for the following to be confirmed: Oltra is no longer our manager after being sacked today.
Like I said many times before, the club's situation is the board's fault, but Oltra hasn't been able to make any positive contributions to the team. Mallorca isn't playing well, the defense is a joke (by one goal we're not the team that has conceded the most in Segunda) and the team is 11th placed after 27 games (which is completely unacceptable).
They should have taken this step weeks before, but they didn't because their position in the club is more important to them than the club's position in the table, now we only have 15 games left... direct promotion is now 10 points away (we're actually closer to the relegation zone which is just 4 points below), so the only thing we can pretty much settle with at this point is getting into the playoff positions (which are luckily just 2 points away).
The new manager will be Lluís Carreras, whom I already said was one of the main candidates a few weeks ago. He played as a LB for us during the second half of the 90s. He was signed right before our last season in Segunda, so now he has to achieve as a manager the same thing he achieved as a player: a promotion to Primera with Mallorca!
His managerial carreer is brief (only 3 years), but pretty good. In those 3 years he promoted Sabadell to Segunda for the first time in 20 years and avoided relegation twice while playing nice football, dispite the club's limited budget.
Managing Mallorca is a definetely a step up from managing Sabadell, but I hope he's the right man for the job and can take us back to the division we belong.
Good luck to him!
Meanwhile Genk fired coach Mario Been, but they did it with respect, got an applaus from even the journalists for his good work with Genk (went 2 group stages in the EL unbeaten, still in the EL this season, won the Belgian cup and managed to be a top 3 team for 2,5 years)
I have all the respect to Mario Been, such a nice guy IRL, met him a few times and he is never to famous to have a normal chat, hope you can manage a great team soon Mario!
