Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Colourful character knows how to get wins
hang on at Tynecastle for two years shows he was doing something right.
And in guiding the Jambos to a third-place finish in the top flight in 2009, he earned himself the Manager of the Year awards from both the Premier League and the Football Writers’ Association.
His time also saw him prove popular with the media for his at-times off-the-wall quotes. He even crossed swords with then-United boss Craig Levein over time wasting by Hearts.
“You must look at what happened here at my house, before I go out and talk about the other house about the neighbour. You must look to keep my house clean and you don’t go to look for the other wives or you have a problem with your wife,” was Laszlo’s novel way of telling his opposite number to mind his own business.
Since becoming one of the many Romanov managerial casualties during the Lithuanian’s turbulent reign in the capital, Laszlo has had four jobs, usually arriving in a crisis and leaving with things in a much better state.
That goes for the l ast two i n particular. At MTK Budapest and then in Slovakia with DAC Dunajska Streda.
In Budapest he led an unfancied team to the top of the league before a row over transfer budgets saw a parting of t he ways. He t hen transformed DAC from relegation certainties to challengers for a European place.
He arrives at United with them only goal difference away from the top.
If he brings the kind of improvement he has elsewhere, Laszlo will be just as popular at Tannadice as he’s been elsewhere.