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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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TIFWIW, just got off the phone with my old college mate, who is from foggy London Town. He said, someone told him Conte was at Heathrow trying to catch an Uber.
 
I add with the list of some players that Paratici has brought to Juventus:

Barzagli for € 300,000, a gift

Bonucci

Pirlo 0€

Vidal

Pogba 0€

Higuain in my opinion a mistake (it would have been taking a young Icardi)

CR7

Paratici when he was only a sports manager worked very well. When he was also appointed CEO, in my opinion he was not able to understand the management aspects. As an observer he had a lot of eye to understand cheap deals: Pogba, Pirlo, Vidal, Tevez etc.
The continent has always seemed smarter about free transfers than England to me.

Now, those leagues are a little bit friendlier to older players of course, but I think there is going to be a lot of opportunity out there over the next few windows and I am very very happy to have an experienced football person surveying the landscape, rather than Levy with Hitchen as his scouting yes-man always looking for the same sort of expensive, just-emerged "next big thing" that has become an over-priced resource.

Every Levy transfer begins with the same idea: this is the sort of player everyone else is after, but for some reason we have the selling club over a barrel and can squeeze a lower fee out of them. That's fishing in a very small pond.
 
I've been checking the flight status of Ryanair flights from Milan, but I don't think they have anything direct to Heathrow. Looks like they fly into Luton, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled...

:levyeyes:

He’ll have a standby ticket. Could take days to get on a flight. :levystare:
 
Just seen new back to the future film. Set in 2041. Doc comes back in present year 2021 and says to marty mcfly 'great scott marty! Daniel levy has hired another coach and dof. No trophies still but confident this is definitely the right man'. 😊
 
I add with the list of some players that Paratici has brought to Juventus:

Barzagli for € 300,000, a gift

Bonucci

Pirlo 0€

Vidal

Pogba 0€

Higuain in my opinion a mistake (it would have been taking a young Icardi)

CR7

Paratici when he was only a sports manager worked very well. When he was also appointed CEO, in my opinion he was not able to understand the management aspects. As an observer he had a lot of eye to understand cheap deals: Pogba, Pirlo, Vidal, Tevez etc.

I see names there that didn’t take much scouting analysis, ie they were players already well known (even young Pogba to a degree) maybe not Barzagli(?).

What was Paratuci’s actual role? Did he oversee all the sporting side - sporting philosophy, recruiting managers, scouting, signing players, academy ?

What was the hierarchy structure at Juve?
 
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Just seen new back to the future film. Set in 2041. Doc comes back in present year 2021 and says to marty mcfly 'great scott marty! Daniel levy has hired another coach and dof. No trophies still but confident this is definitely the right man'. 😊
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