Viduka doesn't envy boss
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Middlesbrough striker Mark Viduka has revealed he doesn't envy former team-mate and now Riverside boss Gareth Southgate.
Last season the pair were team-mates as Boro went all the way to the UEFA Cup final under former manager Steve McClaren.
Southgate replaced the now England head coach in the summer but, although impressing Viduka with the transition from player to manager, the Australia international wouldn't like to be in the current manager's shoes with the Teessiders currently struggling just above the Premiership drop zone.
"It is not an easy job being a manager. I have been playing football for a long time and I think it would be very difficult if somebody told me next year I was manager," he said.
"In that position, I would not know what to do. But Gareth has taken to it very well. He is going to be a good manager.
"After playing football for so long and being through all the ups and downs, you start learning how to deal with these things.
"It is probably different being a manager because once the players go across that line, there is nothing much you can do, apart from half-time talks and whatever.
"But he is coping quite well and a few results over Christmas - if we can get a string of wins together - we could come into the new year in a great position." -
Gareth Southgate is one of the next likely managers to be given the sack! Looks like he is not up to the job yet...
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Agree to it.Originally posted by zocoss:Gareth Southgate is one of the next likely managers to be given the sack! Looks like he is not up to the job yet...
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i think southgate knows what he's doing, knows which part of the team he needs to strengthen, give him more time and he'll produce....
loved him at villa
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southgate seems to be confident leh
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for his first job, he became a premiership boss. i think he should have worked his way up from the lower divisions first.
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so was colemen, you got to giv them time to prove themselvesOriginally posted by mcfadden:Agree to it.
Southgate just inexperience.