Archive for the 'Resignations' Category

December 4th, 2008

Roy Keane Walks Away From Sunderland

Former Manchester United and Ireland midfielder Roy Keane has resigned from Sunderland after three days of negotiations following their losing the last 5 out of 6 and slipping into the Relegation zone in the Barclay's Premiership standings. (more...)
September 3rd, 2008

Curbs First To Go

Alan Curbishley, who only took over at Upton Park in December 2006 has turned in his resignation as manager of West Ham United. It's been believed that Curbishley had been extremely unhappy with the moves being made by the board and some being made against his wishes, most importantly the move of defender Anton Ferdinand to Sunderland and Roy Keane ...
August 11th, 2008

No More Sexiness In LA

AEG Chief Executive Officer Tim Leiweke and the LA Galaxy have accepted the resignation of Head Coach Ruud Gullit, with Cobi Jones stepping up as Interim Head Coach effective immediately ahead of Thursday night's SuperClasico. General Manager Alexi Lalas was also fired in the shuffle, whose contract was set to expire at the end of the season. Tom ...
May 16th, 2008

Michael Laudrup Quits Getafe

Michael Laudrup's taken Getafe to the Quarter-Finals of Uefa (going through Benfica, AEK and barely losing out to Bayern Munich 3-3 on away goals), the second consecutive King's Cup Final (lost to Valencia) and a mid-table (13th) finish in La Liga. Not bad for following up Bernd Schuster. Now he's announced that he's stepping down at the end of ...
March 12th, 2008

More upheavel at Valenica

Does this look like a man who has serious health issues?  Valencia President Juan Soler announced his resignation to board members on Wednesday citing health reasons. Maybe it was due more to the state of the team and the shocker they've been having this season. There you go Albeda.  Have fun Mr. Koeman and I'll just say goodbye now, rather ...
March 9th, 2008

Another coach down the drain for Adu

After dropping more points in a 2-2 draw at home against bottom club Uniao Leiria, Jose Antonio Camacho formally resigned as head coach of BWINLiga side Benfica.  The once powerful club sits 14 points behind Porto and has been struggling for sometime under the Spaniard, who had managed Real Madrid before his time with Benfica. With Freddy Adu away ...
February 10th, 2008

El Bolillo turns in his own walking papers

image via Mdzol Ex-Colombian player and Ex-Ecuador (he coached them at the 2002 World Cup)  manager Hernan Dario Gomez is now Ex-Guatemala manager.  After posting too many defeats for his own liking, Gomez handed in his resignation following Guatemala's 5-0 drubbing at the hands of Argentina.