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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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Guido said:
No!

So would you rather us have a DoF make the call on our next manager or would you rather it be left to Levy?
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I would want a real, empowered DOF making the appointment and not a sacrificial lamb just installed under the fog of war (having no lay of the land, Covid constraints, Levy constraints, etc etc etc) making a similarly sacrificial appointment. Both of these appts are opportunistic and both will, more likely than not, not be here in 2 seasons time and both will be blamed for the mess we will be in at that time...while Levy skates by again. A major reason I did not want Poch to come back and spend his political capital with the fanbase. We are a fucking shambles!

I will back both and continue to do so based on evidence they provide. But there's no doubt these are lambs to the slaughter.
 
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todd1882 said:
I would want a real, empowered DOF making the appointment and not a sacrificial lamb just installed under the fog of war (having no lay of the land, Covid constraints, Levy constraints, etc etc etc) making a similar sacrificial appointment. Both of these appts are opportunistic and both will, more likely than not, not be here in 2 seasons time and both will be blamed for the mess we will be in at that time...while Levy skates by again. A major reason I did not want Poch to come back and spend his political capital with the fanbase. We are a fucking shambles!

I will back both and continue to do so based on evidence they provide. But there's no doubt these are lambs to the slaughter.
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Doesn’t this managerial appointment reinforce the fact that Fabio actually does have control? There is no way this manager was Levy’s idea, or Hitchen’s.

Levy is a cunt but if he’s hired a DOF and he’s actually letting him get who he wants then he is atleast doing something different. We’ll see how this plays out I guess but I’m not as pessimistic as you right now.
 
todd1882 said:
I would want a real, empowered DOF making the appointment and not a sacrificial lamb just installed under the fog of war (having no lay of the land, Covid constraints, Levy constraints, etc etc etc) making a similar sacrificial appointment. Both of these appts are opportunistic and both will, more likely than not, not be here in 2 seasons time and both will be blamed for the mess we will be in at that time...while Levy skates by again. A major reason I did not want Poch to come back and spend his political capital with the fanbase. We are a fucking shambles!

I will back both and continue to do so based on evidence they provide. But there's no doubt these are lambs to the slaughter.
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That's as maybe the case.

I know nothing about either, so I've no ammunition and no argument pro or against.

The bottom line for me is we need Levy out and away from the football decisions, that box is now ticked (subject to official notification). It means there is accountability now for the football side of the club. We need further understanding of the scope of this role, however, is this a Baldini type role of find and sell or is it a much wider brief that oversees everything from the academy, analytics and philosophies etc..??
 
FightingIllini said:
I will not hear caterwauling about Fonseca from the xG-humping Potterite "rebuild" doofuses. I will not hear it. Fonseca is the same thing, for better or worse.
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There's more to it than that though, right? Potter was able to coach attacking football while securing the backdoor. Fonseca, like Bobby Brown Shoes, seems to employ hospital gown tactics and leave things exposed in the back. If it turns into something akin to when 'arry was here then I assume many will be happy with entertaining, attacking football where we win more than we lose.

But new coach, new league, etc etc etc and this could go all wrong. The risk can be mitigated by properly addressing squad issue/deficiencies...even on the cheap. And that means going forward with a plan, something we've yet to show we have.
 
Joshking5 said:
Doesn’t this managerial appointment reinforce the fact that Fabio actually does have control? There is no way this manager was Levy’s idea, or Hitchen’s.
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Yes, but... We are in a fucking mess. And this mess was by Levy's design and construction of it began over 3 seasons ago. Decisions have been made and we have dug ourselves into a deeper hole with each. But now Levy cravenly appoints a DOF but only after his own public dalliances and public failings and let's him get on with it (but with manager options C, D, and E like the player options during the Poch era). If Conte reports are to be believed then it shows Levy has given Paratici just enough rope...

Joshking5 said:
Levy is a cunt but if he’s hired a DOF and he’s actually letting him get who he wants then he is atleast doing something different.
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Honestly, he's letting him get who he wants within the constraints that he sets. Actually empowering a DOF is just setting the budget and backing the fuck off. But having public negotiations with Conte before the actual hiring of the DOF takes Conte off the board for the DOF after his appt. Which do you think Paratici would hire between the two if he were truly empowered? And I didn't want Conte BTW jsut using to illustrate.
 
Guido said:
It means there is accountability now for the football side of the club.
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To some extent this is true but Levy's meddling blurred the lines. And as I've already stated these two folks are starting with an absolute mess so they will get a pass for some time from me. This is why I wanted Mou to continue, the pain had to be greater so the blame could be focused to where it belonged. Now we have scapegoats.
 
Dr Rocktopus said:
And many more looked like middle managers and stayed that way. The vast majority.
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But most of those didn't attack, defend, and organize their teams like Potter does. I think you're doing him a disservice in your assessment. The vast majority that stayed there had clear deficiencies in one phase of the game. Potter looks as if that deficiency is down to shitty players. Missing the goals that they miss is not tactical deficiency.
 
todd1882 said:
Yes, but... We are in a fucking mess. And this mess was by Levy's design and construction of it began over 3 seasons ago. Decisions have been made and we have dug ourselves into a deeper hole with each. But now Levy cravenly appoints a DOF but only after his own public dalliances and public failings and let's him get on with it (but with manager options C, D, and E like the player options during the Poch era). If Conte reports are to be believed then it shows Levy has given Paratici just enough rope...


Honestly, he's letting him get who he wants within the constraints that he sets. Actually empowering a DOF is just setting the budget and backing the fuck off. But having public negotiations with Conte before the actual hiring of the DOF takes Conte off the board for the DOF after his appt. Which do you think Paratici would hire between the two if he were truly empowered? And I didn't want Conte BTW jsut using to illustrate.
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You make some good points, however specifically on the conte one. Yes I believe that conte was probably paratici’s first choice, but I also believe that if it was that important to him then he would of refused to join when conte said no.

If reports are to be believed then paratici is getting his 2nd choice, not 4th or 5th. Which isn’t terrible in football, it’s almost expected especially for club that’s been awful in recent years.
 
FOK said:
Kevin Hatchard on Talksport just now said he could be a great appointment. the Roma gig was a very tough job doomed to fail.

for what it's worth.
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yes and a more detailed version of that story was posted a few pages ago in this thread.

That, plus the fact that he plays very attacking football, is helping me ease off the ledge and into more of a wait and see mode
 
Lots of furore over this.

Not sure if all you lot have actually followed his career closely or if you are just looking at the stats and making a judgment.

I have no idea about him, only Roma games I watched last season were the Ajax and United ones.

They actually attacked well in both ties, but their defending was woeful. We need to buy some defenders of he going be manager.

Serie A isn't a league I'm going to draw much info from, it's full of PL rejects and the opposite of the PL. So he might do ok with us or be even worse than we are now.

I'm more interested in the tactics. His 343 doesn't work without a ball playing midfielder which we need to buy and some fast CBs. Reckon Tanganga will get a few games now. He would suit that back 3.

I have a feeling Lamela and Sanchez will stay now.
 
FOK said:
Kevin Hatchard on Talksport just now said he could be a great appointment. the Roma gig was a very tough job doomed to fail.

for what it's worth.
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Spurs job is not?

I am not Serie A expert, but I follow Serie A enough to know Roma issue is more about coaching than players. Beside Juventus, Inter, and Milan, the rest hardly have better squad than Roma.

Spurs has more difficult uphill battle to get into top 4 compare to Roma. So this appointment doesn't give me any optimism.
 
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