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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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nicoclaesen said:
Totally agree with all of that. The ignorance on here is frightening. Ange is gradually going up the ladder and the next step is England for him. Is he to say no to Tottenham because supporters think he’s shit?
We are not too big for this guy
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Agree mate.

There are no fcuking guarantees, and we need someone on the upward trajectory, who encapsulates the club's identity but can also work with the structure they have been given.

Pochettino was far from everybody's first choice despite the Chelsea love-in some Spurs fans are displaying.

My point is those who talk with so called knowledge were probably many of those who thought Mourinho and Conte would be brilliant. Well yes....
 
Larry David said:
People saying it’s a shit league up in Scotland etc etc

Yes the standard is poor, but doesn’t that mean he’s done an incredible job getting that standard of player playing the great football they do?

He plays attacking murder ball, which is what we all want, let’s get behind him if it’s him and not write him off

Remember a lot were writing off Poch when he got the job, we’ve tried the big names and it hasn’t worked, in fact it’s taken us backwards

Poste is a decent option for what we want and I’ll give him full backing if he comes in
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Celtic don't have terrible players. They have considerably better players than their rivals.
I'd be faaaar more impressed with Ange if he'd taken over a team that isn't Celtic and done it. I'd be chomping at the bit if he'd done it with say Aberdeen or Hearts (3rd and 4th in the table) who were between 22 and 25 points behind Celtic. They wouldn't even have had to win the league, just play Champaign football and be a lot closer to them.
 
ginola92 said:
Yeah I said Poch did more than De Zerbi, but in terms of how they were thought of at the time it was similar. Was in response to the poster saying Poch wasn’t wanted. Also De Zerbi took over Brighton in September you can’t really say they were on cards for a europa league or champs finish at that point lol. He did a much better job than Potter albeit inheriting a team already on the right path.

This whole Brighton wanted poste before de zerbi is a myth that’s just being posted around this forum as fact. He was linked with the job as being on the shortlist, nowhere was it said they wanted him over de Zerbi, I actually went back to check on this the other week, most reports said he was on the shortlist but De Zerbi was front runner..

And irrelevant to that I have actual evidence of De Zerbi work at a team outside of being the best team in Scotland so no I shouldn’t be just as happy with agne as I would with de Zerbi.
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Brighton were 4th when Potter left them and were playing great top draw football that’s why Chelsea hired him in the first place, that team looked class and has continued to look great since when he left but it wasn’t a rebuild job for De Zerbi he just had to continue. He has done a good job of sustaining but it doesn’t show one bit he can rebuild which is what he would have to with us. Postu is a risk but De Zerbi would also be a risk as he is running Potter’s team.

You want low risk then Nagelsmann or Pochettino where the best options and for some reason we have said no.
 
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Here's the article Kilpatrick wrote

Postecoglou is a contender to permanently succeed Antonio Conte and is said to have impressed Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, who is leading the club's search for a new head coach and director of football.

Among Postecoglou’s admirers at Spurs is the club's incoming chief football officer Scott Munn, a fellow Australian who knows Postecoglou personally and is set to officially become Levy's de facto No2 from July.

Any serious discussions with Postecoglou - who is on a 12-month rolling contract at Parkhead - will have to wait until after Celtic face Inverness in this weekend's showpiece at Hampden Park, with the Bhoys aiming to seal an eighth domestic treble.

At 57, the former Australia and Yokohama Marinos boss does not fit the profile of an up-and-coming coach, in the mould of Mauricio Pochettino in 2014, that Spurs had initially hoped to hire.

However, he has restored Celtic's domestic dominance since succeeding Neil Lennon in summer 2021, and earned plaudits for his high-octane style of play, canny recruitment and charisma.

Levy has held talks with Luis Enrique, the out-of-work former Barcelona and Spain coach who is wanted by Serie A champions Napoli as a replacement for Luciano Spalletti. Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis yesterday claimed Enrique “has the Premier League in mind” for his next job.

Feyenoord boss Arne Slot last week ruled himself out of the running for Spurs by signing a new contract at De Kuip, while the north London club have insisted that they do not plan to interview Julian Nagelsmann, who is a free agent after being sacked by Bayern Munich.

Ryan Mason, who took charge of the last six games of the season as interim head coach, wants the permanent job.
 
ginola92 said:
Yeah I said Poch did more than De Zerbi, but in terms of how they were thought of at the time it was similar. Was in response to the poster saying Poch wasn’t wanted. Also De Zerbi took over Brighton in September you can’t really say they were on cards for a europa league or champs finish at that point lol. He did a much better job than Potter albeit inheriting a team already on the right path.
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They definitely were.

Check out their last 10 or results from last season and the first 6 from this.

Absolutely flying, that was Top 4 form.

And I'm not saying they'd have got top4 under Potter but just see how many wins home and away, against good teams, and how many goals scored.

2 losses. City (so what) and Fulham away I think when they were doing very well.

Beat Goons and us both away in the same week. Absolutely schooled us at a time when we'd been scoring for fun and about to beat the Goons 3-0.

de Zerbi has taken them on, yes, but it's pretty marginal at best.

And I'd say that Potters footie is more sustainable. Tail end of last season Brighton were flying. Tail end this one, at times running on empty.
 
Matt1882 said:
Celtic don't have terrible players. They have considerably better players than their rivals.
I'd be faaaar more impressed with Ange if he'd taken over a team that isn't Celtic and done it. I'd be chomping at the bit if he'd done it with say Aberdeen or Hearts (3rd and 4th in the table) who were between 22 and 25 points behind Celtic. They wouldn't even have had to win the league, just play Champaign football and be a lot closer to them.
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That’s like asking Aston Villa to get closer to Man City. Won’t happen.
Ange can only be judged on his domination of Rangers and they are miles in front of them at this moment. They were second when he took over. It’s a two team league just like England this season or any season for that matter,France is a one team league,Holland is a 3 team league,Germany is a 2 team league,Spain is a 3 team league. He’s win whatever he’s been
 
White Van Jan said:
Check out their last 10 or results from last season and the first 6 from this.

Absolutely flying, that was Top 4 form.

And I'm not saying they'd have got top4 under Potter but just see how many wins home and away, against good teams, and how many goals scored.

2 losses. City (so what) and Fulham away I think when they were doing very well.

Beat Goons and us both away in the same week. Absolutely schooled us at a time when we'd been scoring for fun and about to beat the Goons 3-0.

de Zerbi has taken them on, yes, but it's pretty marginal.

And Id say that Potters footie is more sustainable. Tail end of last season Brighton were flying. Tail end this one, at times running on empty.
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Yeh to be fair I have to give De Zerbi full credit for keeping Brighton going but if you’re taking on a well set team ready for EL it’s not a transformative proposal. Fundamentally this Brighton team is still the Potter team, it will take maybe another 1-2 seasons for that to clear away.

I remember Allegri taking over Conte and continuing. He then came back a second time taking over from Pirlo and has struggled.

We need a transformative manager and both De Zerbi and Poste have been that in much weaker leagues. Only Pochettino and Nagelsmann have been transformative in strong leagues which is why they are so suitable and why it’s so odd we didn’t go for either.
 
Ange was actually managed by Ferenc Puskas in Australia.

Not that this means anything since he wasn't a good manager which is probably why he was managing a semi-pro club in Australia in the first place.
 
nicoclaesen said:
That’s like asking Aston Villa to get closer to Man City. Won’t happen.
Ange can only be judged on his domination of Rangers and they are miles in front of them at this moment. They were second when he took over. It’s a two team league just like England this season or any season for that matter,France is a one team league,Holland is a 3 team league,Germany is a 2 team league,Spain is a 3 team league. He’s win whatever he’s been
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Yes but those leagues regularly produce CL finalists/winners.

Celtic last won the European Cup in 1967, finalists in 1970 or so, Rangers nowhere close.

And Scottish footie in those days was massive, just look at the crowds in the days before telly income. 137,000 for the EC semi win over Leeds at Hampden. And it would have been higher so as to evade tax, and then there the £thousands that ended up in the pockets of the turnstyle operators, cash only of course.
 
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