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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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Because all you're seeing is a single stint at Celtic.

He's been successful everywhere he's managed. More to the point, he's turned average teams into quality teams.

I'm not claiming he'll make us Champions, but he'll improve us significantly, of that I am quietly confident.

Not sure how much attention you want people to pay to what a manager did with Melbourne Victory or Yokohama F. Marinos.

What Postecoglu has done with Celtic is nothing more impressive than what Gerrard did with Rangers or what Rodgers did with Leicester. He's only viewed more positively than these names because he hasn't had his big job opportunity yet.

Improve us significantly from where we are now, with Mason? Probably. But he's not a better coach than Conte, or even close, so unlikely we'd reach heights of last season. We'd likely be entertaining but wildly inconsistent.
 
Depends on how well we are doing in the other games, how entertaining we are to watch, if there seems to be a method and style developing. Poch should do brilliantly at Chelsea with all that money and a lot of players he is inheriting so it will be no surprise if they do well against us.
Mentally I'm preparing for a down period without any danger of CL football. Competing with a well funded and organized Poch team at Chelsea seems like a pipe dream.

Our team was stale years ago, but Levy has moved on from trying to save Paratici's job to trying to save Dier's.

The club is mentally checked out on the pitch and the season is likely to end with a thud.

We are probably not close to having a new DOF or manager, and we seem likely to still be a club in disarray during the summer.

Without a DOF or manager, it's not likely there will be a lot of meaningful signings or players moved on.

Kane's status is very much in question, as is the question of whether Son will return to form. Without them we have an incredibly average team.

It would be sad to see us move from rivaling Scum and Chavs to competing with the Spammers and hoping for a UEFA place but...

Without major change in the next few weeks we seem to be headed for a regression to mid-table next year, with the potential that a few injuries have us sweating safety in the new year.

Not to be dour or anything
 
Feel bad for whoever comes in.
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You'd only allow the CEO to choose the direction if you buy his pitch. The reality is that the vision of any company's direction comes from the Chairman, who then tasks the CEO with making it happen.

How do you know the direction chosen for Brighton came from Barber and not Bloom? Credit Barber for where they are by all means, but was it his vision or Bloom's?

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that the title of CEO means they should be executing their own plans, what if they're 180 degrees different to the Chairman's vision? They don't operate in isolation you know, those sort of decisions have to be ratified. This isn't the CIA!
How do we know that direction came from barber - we don't and I doubt it did. Neither of them would have the foggiest when it comes to literally revolutionizing the scouting and recruitment system.

But I reckon both are smart enough to know to trust those with the knowledge, and the whole set up at Brighton is special. The scouting system is extraordinarily visionary and even the likes of city are looking at it. I really can't see either barber or bloom having that kind of impact , maybe credit them for recruiting those who do/did ..

So do you trust levy to do the same....
 
It's obviously not going to be Poch but it's interesting how Levy reportedly showed absolutely zero interest in him despite large sections of the fanbase singing his name over the past few months.

Doesn't seem to hold too much respect for the fanbase, does he? (as if we already didn't fucking know that)

Hate the cunt so much.
Lose lose for Levy, he does badly and ppl will ask “why”, if he does well ppl will ask “why did we waste the last 3 years?”
 
Spurs fans...........


De Zerbi after Woolwich :contethumb:


De Zerbi after Newcastle :contefacepalm::contehmm:

One thing stuck out to me. The young lad Van Hecke in one of his first starts at CB had 2-3 very iffy passes into midfield early on, and Callum Wilson seemed to be specifically instructed to cut off the square pass to Dunk, to make sure Van Hecke and not Dunk was passing into midfield. 99/100 managers would have asked him to play with less risk, but De Zerbi stuck to his guns, and more importantly trusted the player, rather than undermining his confidence. I'm liking a lot of what I'm seeing from De Zerbi.
 
Lose lose for Levy, he does badly and ppl will ask “why”, if he does well ppl will ask “why did we waste the last 3 years?”

Can't win.

I think it will be even worse if this Slot is the favoured choice and we then have weeks and weeks of wrangling.

This needs to be unusually swift in its conclusion.

Then we wait and see.

New chapter, so let's hope new dawn and not a descent into a long winter.
 
One thing stuck out to me. The young lad Van Hecke in one of his first starts at CB had 2-3 very iffy passes into midfield early on, and Callum Wilson seemed to be specifically instructed to cut off the square pass to Dunk, to make sure Van Hecke and not Dunk was passing into midfield. 99/100 managers would have asked him to play with less risk, but De Zerbi stuck to his guns, and more importantly trusted the player, rather than undermining his confidence. I'm liking a lot of what I'm seeing from De Zerbi.

Looked a bit to me like De Zerbi got figured out a bit, which is what is bound to happen and exactly why we'd be mad to fork out for him this early into arriving in the prem.
 
Can't win.

I think it will be even worse if this Slot is the favoured choice and we then have weeks and weeks of wrangling.

This needs to be unusually swift in its conclusion.

Then we wait and see.

New chapter, so let's hope new dawn and not a descent into a long winter.

Just hoping that Munn makes things quicker and gets things done.

Otherwise, him and Levy just end up the fucking chuckle brothers.
 
I'm amazed at the credit Ange is getting. The SPL made winners out of Gerrard Lennon and Rodgers. I'd rather Slot but we have zero no risk options at this point so yeah it could go wrong.

The lowest risk option was Poch. After that Bagelsman. Slot is the higher risk, higher reward shot but you can see that he has something about him.Ange is a massive risk coming from SPL.

Thing I still don't get is why the chuckle brothers are choosing the manager instead of getting the DOF sorted first.
 
One thing stuck out to me. The young lad Van Hecke in one of his first starts at CB had 2-3 very iffy passes into midfield early on, and Callum Wilson seemed to be specifically instructed to cut off the square pass to Dunk, to make sure Van Hecke and not Dunk was passing into midfield. 99/100 managers would have asked him to play with less risk, but De Zerbi stuck to his guns, and more importantly trusted the player, rather than undermining his confidence. I'm liking a lot of what I'm seeing from De Zerbi.
I get what you're saying. But sticking to his guns cost him 3 points and lost 4-1. They got battered 5-0 by Everton the other week.

Don't get me wrong they have had some great results and played some good stuff under him, but they are chasing a Europa cup place. Him sticking to his guns in that occasion could be him just being naive.

At a bigger club you don't get that opportunity.
 
The lowest risk option was Poch. After that Bagelsman. Slot is the higher risk, higher reward shot but you can see that he has something about him.Ange is a massive risk coming from SPL.

Thing I still don't get is why the chuckle brothers are choosing the manager instead of getting the DOF sorted first.

I think if there is any notion at all of seeking to not just keep Kane but incolving him, then waiting is not an option.

We need to be active and quickly once the summer window opens, and that is ins and outs.
 
I get what you're saying. But sticking to his guns cost him 3 points and lost 4-1. They got battered 5-0 by Everton the other week.

Don't get me wrong they have had some great results and played some good stuff under him, but they are chasing a Europa cup place. Him sticking to his guns in that occasion could be him just being naive.

At a bigger club you don't get that opportunity.

Exactly!

De Zerbi is a hot topic right now. Doesn't mean what he does at Brighton would be the right fit for Spurs.

I like watching Brighton play, it's good for the prem. I hope he stays there at least another year.
 
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