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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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Elias said:
It's entirely possible Slot's agent was playing both Levy/Munn & Feyonoord.

The buyout for Slot was next summer, so it was irrelevant to our negotiations right now..

A week ago, Slot publicly said: "The next step will not be another club in Holland, if that is the next step and if I fail completely in the upcoming few years.
"The normal next step would be to go abroad and I've always said the best league in the world is the Premier League but when it comes to Italy you can see there are a few clubs playing in European finals now. There are more countries where it is interesting to go to in the future, but the Premier League is the biggest league in the world, that is clear."

So, if Slot was prepared to speak with forked tongue on the record, you can bet his agent was talking all kinds of shite off the record.
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The whole Slot thing was a Daily Mail journo trying to keep the clicks up
 
Get in! said:
I wasn't talking about the history of our club. I was talking about what conceptually is the case.
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But it most definitely is relevant that Peak Poch had nothing to do with a DoF.

All the players talk about how the culture was created by Poch, not by ownership or some DoF.

And the style of football was Poch's.

So the most successful, and the most thrilling, football of recent years was delivered by a Head Coach, not a DoF.

Poch doesn't much like DoFs and, according to the link I posted above, actively got Baldini binned. The questions arise because we had a season where we bought no one, because Poch didn't want the players Levy thought he could get. Then Poch insisted on signing Ndombele & GLC above Bruno Fernandes, and most of us think that was a catastrophic mistake, despite Bruno being a bellend.

Would having a DoF having changed that situation? I suspect not, because most top Head Coaches are very stubborn about which players they want.

Conte basically told Paratici who he wanted, and if the club delivered someone else, he froze them out - eg Spence & Danjuma.

So the theory of DoFs is fine. Our real world experience has been chaotic.
 
Two months without a manager with Levy apparently conducting an exhaustive search for just the right man and who are the leading two candidates?

Brenton Rodgers. The David Brent of English Football with the most punchable face outside of Woolwich.

And...

Flange Postecoglu. A 89 year old who has only managed Sunday league calibre teams. Apparently he managed to win things with Celtic, an achievement that pretty much any sentient life form could match.

Fucking Levy, he's killing this club...
 
Elias said:
But it most definitely is relevant that Peak Poch had nothing to do with a DoF.

All the players talk about how the culture was created by Poch, not by ownership or some DoF.

And the style of football was Poch's.

So the most successful, and the most thrilling, football of recent years was delivered by a Head Coach, not a DoF.

Poch doesn't much like DoFs and, according to the link I posted above, actively got Baldini binned. The questions arise because we had a season where we bought no one, because Poch didn't want the players Levy thought he could get. Then Poch insisted on signing Ndombele & GLC above Bruno Fernandes, and most of us think that was a catastrophic mistake, despite Bruno being a bellend.

Would having a DoF having changed that situation? I suspect not, because most top Head Coaches are very stubborn about which players they want.

Conte basically told Paratici who he wanted, and if the club delivered someone else, he froze them out - eg Spence & Danjuma.

So the theory of DoFs is fine. Our real world experience has been chaotic.
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As I said, the manager will deliver change and faster, but it will be short-lived. You just made my point with the Poch example. A DoF, one as good a DoF as Poch was a manager, will set foundations that will not allow that dip to happen and will ensure better continuity than the lurching from one manager to the other we have experienced the past 4 years. But these foundations take time to establish and bear fruits. A manager can turn things around faster, but when he leaves it all goes to pieces, if said foundations aren't there.
 
Not only Feyenoord, but is Enrique now choosing between Napoli or PSG over Spurs?
 
Get in! said:
As I said, the manager will deliver change and faster, but it will be short-lived. You just made my point with the Poch example. A DoF, one as good a DoF as Poch was a manager, will set foundations that will not allow that dip to happen and will ensure better continuity than the lurching from one manager to the other we have experienced the past 4 years. But these foundations take time to establish and bear fruits. A manager can turn things around faster, but when he leaves it all goes to pieces, if said foundations aren't there.
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That's the DoF theory.

It rarely survives contact with reality, as our club has repeatedly shown.

I'll take the thrill of the Peak Poch seasons over some hypothetical stability through DoF continuity prayer.
 
McCOYS said:
Sure but if Levy is contributing towards managers avoiding the Spurs job, then his position is compromised. His additional problem now is that Conte called him/ENIC out, publicly.

I don't see why the Celtic manager would leave that job to come here?

It's not long now until the transfer market opens (10th June I think) and we don't even have a new DoF yet, so not only the issues with Levy but also a potential new manager won't even know who he's directly working under/with.
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Because he knows Beale will turn hm over next year.
 
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