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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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Yeah, he seems to me a guy who has a very strong grasp on tactics and is very intelligent, but in terms of coaching I don't see the spark. Pochettino is probably less tactically inclined but he has said spark, he inspires passion from his players.

We were a dead fish in AVB's second season. The game that got him sacked (5-0 vs Liverpool) we had zero shots on target, at home. Why would supporters be patient with that in a managers second season? He lost Bale and that was it. He fucking sucked.
I remember we lost 6 nil to city under AVB. Players were gone. Even vertonghen made a bad mistake for one of their goals. That game hurt.
 
It’s relative though, kompany is working with Burnley players against championship opposition and they brought in something like 16 players last summer, completely revamped the squad. He’s not got players like Ben mee and Tarkowski playing tiki taka. What Enrique did with his one season at Celta Vigo is similar to Poch at Southampton, taking a side narrowly escaping relegation and taking them to the top half of the division.

Just think no matter who we bring in we need an overhaul of this squad. I don’t see Luis Enrique and Conte similarities at all bar the fact that they’re “big names”

I might be wrong but I just don’t see him making the players we can afford like Alex Scott into the kind of team he would want, he has already said he wants a project where it’s possible to be successful, he has already said he only wants to be at a club who can do big important things which you would assume means win titles. For me it just seems like the wrong fit.

Someone like Slot on the other hand for whom this job would be a step up and for whom is more used to working with mediocrity would have in my view a higher chance of success.

 
Apparently now big name/ had success in the past = bad

Not much experience = good

There are glamour/prestige as you put it coaches who would come here and do well. We hired a past it mourinho and Conte who’s football went stale after 6 months that doesn’t mean any big name manager who comes won’t achieve.

We want a return to possession based attacking football, Luis Enrique definitely fits that bill.
Based on his own quotes, it appears Enrique thinks he’s too good for us. But he’d probably deign to manage us for say 15 million quid a year.

Enrique got interviewed AFTER Conte was sacked but BEFORE the Chelsea job was opened up.

He said "I would like to go to England to work, but I don't see myself in the Premier League in July," Enrique told La SER Gijon. "I would like to go to a team there that can do important things with and that is very difficult. I would not go to any Premier League team."

 
Thing about Luis Enrique is that he's flexible formation wise. Can play possession and press with wing backs or full backs.

Also doesn't need a traditional #9 for his system. Which is pretty likely with Kane wanting to go this summer.

He's probably not going to need as much transfer work as Poch would.

Poch wouldn’t need that much his system is built on hard work, youth and pressing. We already have the core of a Poch team in Sarr, Udogie, Porro, Skipp, Bentancur, Romero, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Bissouma, Bryan Gil, Spence.
 
Poch wouldn’t need that much his system is built on hard work, youth and pressing. We already have the core of a Poch team in Sarr, Udogie, Porro, Skipp, Bentancur, Romero, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Bissouma, Bryan Gil, Spence.
Ironically the more of Poch's old favorites we bin off (up to and including Harry Kane), the more the squad makes sense to play his football.

Ironic, but not a coincidence.
 
I was thinking who would be the least suitable appointment for our current predicament from the likely candidates and it was Luis Enrique. Unsuited squad, just dont think he'd be fully committed certainly not for a 3 or 4 year rebuild, only ever done it at Barca. I dont think he'd last much more than a season. Its a rumour at this stage but given the idiots in charge i wouldnt be the least bit surprised.

I like the idea that it’s to make Chelsea go for him. Boehly seeing us linked prompts him to make a nice.
 


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The club is either being really smart or really stupid.

Stupid: want Luis Enrique cos he is a big name even though he needs a brand of players Levy will never buy and will almost certainly see us back here in 18 months.

Smart: knows Boehy is massive FOMO like with Raphinha or Mudryk. Putting out messages that Spurs desperately want Luis Enrique to force Boehy to hijack thus leaving Nagelsmann the real target and manager is who suited to this type of situation available.
I like your thinking, but it's Spurs. It's not going to be the smart option is it....
 
I've got a slight feeling that the reason we aren't going for Pochettino is because we the ones we want are currently in jobs.

If they simply aren't interested once the season ends, we'll fall back and go for Pochettino. In that scenario, it wouldn't surprise me if he rejects the opportunity.

Agrew with that but we must be very comfident that whoever we are after wants to come.

As big a club as we undoubtedly are, we are maybe less attractive in 8th and out of Europe than 4th or 5th.

Alternatively we might be in a mess.
 
I really don’t understand why we haven’t hired Poch, it makes sense at every level and is making more and more sense by the day.

If Kane is off and the rest of are old players then he’s it makes clear sense. I just think the club still has no idea what it wants. I don’t know if that is a good thing in terms of waiting for Scott Munn to come and a new DoF to replace the dodgy Paratici or because the club is just clueless.
 
I really don’t understand why we haven’t hired Poch, it makes sense at every level and is making more and more sense by the day.
We should have hired him the week after Conte went (January would have been preferable). We should have also binned Paratici and bought in Ramon Planes as DoF, someone that knows and obviously gets on with Poch. We should have then given them all 4 year contracts, told them they'll be left alone to get on with it, that theyd be backed and not to worry if they finish mid table next season as long as there are some green shoots.
 


The actual paragraph from the report isn’t quite as negative. What a surprise

Spurs have made overtures to ascertain whether Naglesmann would be prepared to replace Antonio Conte as the club's next full-time manager and whether he would be open to taking the role immediately.

Sources have told Mail Sport that Naglesmann has expressed to to Spurs that he wants time out of the game before returning for the start of next season.

However, the German coach is also on Chelsea’s radar and there is a feeling Naglesmann prefers a move to Stamford Bridge, though Spurs qualifying for the Champions League could prove a factor.
 
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