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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde


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We'll take the "proper time" and end up with Parker.

The more time a manager has to settle in with the squad and make his own signings the better.

Imagine hiring a manager with just a couple weeks to go until the season kicks off, worrying thought.
We're not going to hire a manager two weeks before the season starts. People need to stop panicking. If it gets to that kind of point, there would be much bigger things at the club to worry about beyond the manager.
 
If it’s Poch we’re after these aren’t great signs

He wants to come, we want him back, the only stumbling block is one years worth of wages, I think if we were desperate to do it we’d have it over the line by now

we’ll fuck Paris about to the point where it’s too late and end up with Gerry Francis coming back instead

Levy really is a turd
 
I think we already are... would we be going more backwards or less backwards though?
I mean it’s not a glamorous appointment and I wouldn’t want to write him off before he has been given a chance , but when you are linked with the likes of Conte who looks to be currently available, if we were to appoint Martinez instead it shows us everything we want to know about the ambition of the club
 
4th place just isn’t a realistic target for the ENIC project as conceived.

There are now four clubs who are financed with the legitimate aim of being the best club on earth and all of them have better squads than us and are investing to improve them.

Honestly I’m not sure how anyone breaks the emergent Big Four. It would take a very high level of funding and football sophistication and we have neither.

This is a little hyperbolic. We were awful this season and still ended up within touching distance. To say finishing in the top 4 is no longer realistic is a little OTT.
 
So Real sack their manager and replace him over a weekend, while we are still scrabbling around after 6 weeks with no end in sight.

What is taking so long? I suppose it’s a good thing that the Real job is off the table for Conte/Poch now but Levy please hurry the fuck up. We have a huge amount of work to do but we can’t get started until we have a manager.
 
The idea of the manager as the absolute final word on his squad is an antiquated notion in 2021.

City or Liverpool would both place a lot of trust in Pep or Klopp's opinion on a transfer and would obviously be loathe to piss off their golden goose managers, but at the end of the day those are well-run clubs because they think beyond one manager as the be-all, end-all of the club.
It's ridiculous to say that having a manager in place does not help your summer transfer planning though, which is the point that was being debated. Sure, whoever the person is may or may not have final say on players. Nobody is saying Conte will walk into Levy's office with a list of 5 guys and that will be our business.

We're talking about the footballing department knowing what type of player and what positions we need to recruit. If we bring in someone who only plays 3-5-2 or someone who only plays 4-2-3-1, that is absolutely going to matter.

The footballing department and manager need to be on the same page in terms of what they're looking for. Every day that goes by where we don't have a manager, we are falling behind in terms of our analysis and eventual recruitment.
 
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