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Management Next Manager Poll (poll reset 11/04/23)

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Next Manager

  • Rodgers

    Votes: 15 3.6%

  • Potter

    Votes: 25 5.9%

  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 177 41.9%

  • Kompany

    Votes: 43 10.2%

  • Slot

    Votes: 91 21.6%

  • Postecoglou

    Votes: 74 17.5%

  • De Zerbi

    Votes: 31 7.3%

  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 11 2.6%

  • Stellini

    Votes: 4 0.9%

  • Frank

    Votes: 10 2.4%

  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 21 5.0%

  • Zidane

    Votes: 5 1.2%

  • Glasner

    Votes: 3 0.7%

  • Amorim

    Votes: 10 2.4%

  • Carrick

    Votes: 9 2.1%

  • Gallardo

    Votes: 23 5.5%

  • Schmidt

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • Total voters
    422
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372 pages of guessing who we will get and will make it. Pointless. Rodgers might be a good fit. Nagelsmann might be a mare. Maybe Mason is the answer. No point guessing. Any one of 50+ candidates could be the one. But until the whole dna of the club is in sync from youth to first team we have one hand tied behind our back. All I think is that whoever comes in needs 4 windows, and needs our patience
 
BrightonSpurs said:
372 pages of guessing who we will get and will make it. Pointless. Rodgers might be a good fit. Nagelsmann might be a mare. Maybe Mason is the answer. No point guessing. Any one of 50+ candidates could be the one. But until the whole dna of the club is in sync from youth to first team we have one hand tied behind our back. All I think is that whoever comes in needs 4 windows, and needs our patience
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We've got to talk about something though.

We once had a 2,000+ page discussion on who we might sign in the summer transfer window
.....and signed nobody 😧
 
BrightonSpurs said:
372 pages of guessing who we will get and will make it. Pointless. Rodgers might be a good fit. Nagelsmann might be a mare. Maybe Mason is the answer. No point guessing. Any one of 50+ candidates could be the one. But until the whole dna of the club is in sync from youth to first team we have one hand tied behind our back. All I think is that whoever comes in needs 4 windows, and needs our patience
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Every day some member of the media writes a story nominating a new favourite for the job. Load of bull, no one actually has a clue at the moment.
 
Right as Rain said:
This right here. Need to give the new manager patience and a club structure built around the tactics. I want a long contract to be given
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But a long contract means a higher severance package when the new manager becomes the latest scapegoat and gets sacked in 18 months or so.
When resuls turn to shit and the fanbase gets restless, Levy sacrifices the manager to buy himself more time.
We all know this.
It'll be a short(ish) contract. And if the guy performs a miracle he'll be offered an extension. (See Poch)
 
So how come this poll got replaced with meaningless cack where people can vote for multiple managers and voter names are hidden?

Why did it need to be re-set at all?
 
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Nuts said:
We were out of the CL for two seasons and I’m not convinced we’ll be in it this year given how crap we’ve been and the fact that we have Conte-lite running the team. So, really, it doesn’t feel much different to the mid to late naughties to me and Joel and Redknapp played more entertaining football.

This whole thing of an upward trajectory is a myth. That we are massively more wealthy is a fact but it hasn’t had much bearing on things outside of the stadium/grounds thus far.

Yes it’s difficult challenging but if the gooners can do it, we should be able to as well. Just like Leicester a few years back, those bastards are blowing apart the ‘4th place is over-achieving’ argument.

This I have come to realise: Poch made Levy look good. Levy makes managers look bad.
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Poch didn't make Levy look good as much as he papered over the cracks. The club needed to set up a first rate football organization and the success under Poch misled Levy et al to perhaps thinking that is not as crucial and that it is more money that is important. So when we had more money, we spent it horribly, exactly because we didn't have a proper football organization in place. Let's see what happens now that we are getting serious about this part too and realizing that, given where we're at right now, money alone will not take us the extra mile.

And whether you believe it or not, the trajectory in terms of league finishes has been upward. Since the start of the PL era, we went from an average finish of 11th before ENIC took over, to an average finish of 9th in its first 8 years, to an average finish of 5th in the last 15 years.
 
John Thomas said:
Especially as English is not his first language.
He does have a bit of Pochettino about him too. Capable of turning decent players into better players and realising their maximum potential as Poch did with so many of ours.
I can see why Levy would be attracted. Whether that attraction is mutual is an entirely different matter
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You repeat this trying to make some point about Levy and how he likes managers who improve players so he doesn't have to spend money for new ones. Well guess what, sparky, any fucking owner in the world wants a manager who gets his players to realize their maximum potential. Whether the club has billions or is surviving day to day.
 
These VK reports must have some element off authenticity as he was asked about it in his presser.
Not sure if he is ready yet just look at lamps, Stevie g and so on. There are better more experienced managers out there ahead of VK which we should go for!
I suspect it could be that getting a less experienced manager levy and the board could control more.
 
Maureen said:
These VK reports must have some element off authenticity as he was asked about it in his presser.
Not sure if he is ready yet just look at lamps, Stevie g and so on. There are better more experienced managers out there ahead of VK which we should go for!
I suspect it could be that getting a less experienced manager levy and the board could control more.
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Certainly after Conte and Jose, it will definitely be back to having a manager who they can control, plays the company game etc.
 
Get in! said:
Poch didn't make Levy look good as much as he papered over the cracks. The club needed to set up a first rate football organization and the success under Poch misled Levy et al to perhaps thinking that is not as crucial and that it is more money that is important. So when we had more money, we spent it horribly, exactly because we didn't have a proper football organization in place. Let's see what happens now that we are getting serious about this part too and realizing that, given where we're at right now, money alone will not take us the extra mile.

And whether you believe it or not, the trajectory in terms of league finishes has been upward. Since the start of the PL era, we went from an average finish of 11th before ENIC took over, to an average finish of 9th in its first 8 years, to an average finish of 5th in the last 15 years.
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I agree with your first part. But we’ve been saying ‘let’s see’ for four seasons and we look like we did in the late naughties but are playing less entertaining football. My eyes are not telling me we are riding the crest of an upward curve.
 
Nuts said:
I agree with your first part. But we’ve been saying ‘let’s see’ for four seasons and we look like we did in the late naughties but are playing less entertaining football. My eyes are not telling me we are riding the crest of an upward curve.
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Agreed at the moment we are being boosted by having two or three top quality players. Our defence and midfield are still a complete mess. The fact we have only signed one acceptable centre back in the last 8 years is insane.
 
Maureen said:
These VK reports must have some element off authenticity as he was asked about it in his presser.
Not sure if he is ready yet just look at lamps, Stevie g and so on. There are better more experienced managers out there ahead of VK which we should go for!
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So you think VK comes across as a weak 'yes-man'? !!!

I'm not saying we should target him, he's far too inexperienced surely, but I certainly don't think he'd be the first name on the list of any board that simply wanted a puppet, a manager they could easily control and make all the key decisions irrespective of him, to me he seems a much stronger character than that.
 
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