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Management So (hypothetically) who replaces Ange then?

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Who to replace Ange?

  • Andoni Iraola

  • Edin Terzic

  • Graham Potter

  • Thomas Frank

  • Marco Silva

  • Kieran McKenna

  • Ryan Mason (Full Time)

  • Michel

  • Xavi

  • Mauricio Pochettino

  • Dino Toppmoller

  • Simone Inzaghi

  • Sean Dyche (Click here if you're an idiot)

  • No-one (Ange new contract)

  • Oliver Glasner

  • Vincenzo Italiano

  • Vitor Pereira

  • Scott Parker

  • Will Still

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Kaz Hirai said:
i could quite easily see him saying that's he's not interested.
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Meh

Iraola is like Eddie Howe. His team is solid and plays very analytically sound but not especially exciting football. He's very capable of getting us back to somewhere between 8th and 4th, where our wage bracket should have us ranging.

But if anyone has seen the football that PSG played the other day under Luis Enrique, or the way Inter pay under Inzaghi, Bayern under Kompany... the really exciting teams in the world right now... or Leverkeusen of last year, that's the level I wish we were aiming for and I don't see anything from Iraola that makes me think he's got that level of football in his locker. I'm wrong about plenty of things so maybe I'm wrong about this but not sure anyone can claim to know he does have that based on this season or last season.

I also think this season the smart teams understood the schedule after a summer with the Euros would mean a need for a slightly more pragmatic style of football. In that bracket is Newcastle, Liverpool, Bournemoth for sure. This summer is no major events. We could be right back to full intensity style of Pep and old Klopp style Liverpool. Whatever we do for next season I hope we are trying to be where the trend is going or even setting a trend and not just reactively one step behind, following what the smart clubs did this year.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Meh

Iraola is like Eddie Howe. His team is solid and plays very analytically sound but not especially exciting football. He's very capable of getting us back to somewhere between 8th and 4th, where our wage bracket should have us ranging.

But if anyone has seen the football that PSG played the other day under Luis Enrique, or the way Inter pay under Inzaghi, Bayern under Kompany... the really exciting teams in the world right now... or Leverkeusen of last year, that's the level I wish we were aiming for and I don't see anything from Iraola that makes me think he's got that level of football in his locker. I'm wrong about plenty of things so maybe I'm wrong about this but not sure anyone can claim to know he does have that based on this season or last season.

I also think this season the smart teams understood the schedule after a summer with the Euros would mean a need for a slightly more pragmatic style of football. In that bracket is Newcastle, Liverpool, Bournemoth for sure. This summer is no major events. We could be right back to full intensity style of Pep and old Klopp style Liverpool. Whatever we do for next season I hope we are trying to be where the trend is going or even setting a trend and not just reactively one step behind, following what the smart clubs did this year.
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preaching to the choir, I'm not on the Iraola hype train solid if unspectacular manager, i dont thnk Bournemouth play brilliant football.
not sure who's out there that we could get really without it being another Ange style risk. Should've been Nagelsmann, given him the Conte wage and whatever concessions he required.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
preaching to the choir, I'm not on the Iraola hype train solid if unspectacular manager, i dont thnk Bournemouth play brilliant football.
not sure who's out there that we could get really without it being another Ange style risk. Should've been Nagelsmann, given him the Conte wage and whatever concessions he required.
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Genuinely think Xavi ticks the most boxes for me, especially if we want to build a culture of academy kids being brought through like Barca or Dortmund.

Plus he will have been out of work, watching and studying other coaches. He's won everything there is to win as a player and already won things as a coach. Pretty much impeachable knowledge of the game and a proven track record as a coach.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Genuinely think Xavi ticks the most boxes for me, especially if we want to build a culture of academy kids being brought through like Barca or Dortmund.

Plus he will have been out of work, watching and studying other coaches. He's won everything there is to win as a player and already won things as a coach. Pretty much impeachable knowledge of the game and a proven track record as a coach.
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dont really not much about Xavi the manager, didnt he struggle at Barca
 
Gym&Chill said:
Scott Parker would be a great shout imo
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Walking Glancing GIF
 
Richard Arlison said:
first season took over from Koeman with the team in 9th and ended the season 2nd. First full season won La Liga, Barca's first in 5 years. Also won the Supercopa as well.

Season after ended badly. A lot of it because Barca is a dysfunctional mess.
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Meh. Environment made for him and it was mixed. Outside of the Spain/Barca bubble where yes they were in a difficult moment but still had talent everywhere, he will fail.

Doing better than Koeman who had lost the dressing room and is a poor coach doesn't say much.
 
Deuterz said:
Meh. Environment made for him and it was mixed. Outside of the Spain/Barca bubble where yes they were in a difficult moment but still had talent everywhere, he will fail.
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He will fail you say? So confident based on what?

He definitely didn't have talent everywhere. The season he won La Liga a 15 year old Lamine Yamal was brought into the senior squad for the first time. The squad was a mess of big names retiring, bang average journeymen like Kessie and rookie youngsters being bedded in.


Deuterz said:
Doing better than Koeman who had lost the dressing room and is a poor coach doesn't say much.
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Wasn't just Koeman he did better than, he won the first La Liga for 5 years so better than Setein and Valverde as well.

If you are Bergvall and Gray, or even Donley and Moore, who do you want to learn the game from better than Xavi Hernandez?
 
Richard Arlison said:
He will fail you say? So confident based on what?

He definitely didn't have talent everywhere. The season he won La Liga a 15 year old Lamine Yamal was brought into the senior squad for the first time. The squad was a mess of big names retiring, bang average journeymen like Kessie and rookie youngsters being bedded in.




Wasn't just Koeman he did better than, he won the first La Liga for 5 years so better than Setein and Valverde as well.

If you are Bergvall and Gray, or even Donley and Moore, who do you want to learn the game from better than Xavi Hernandez?
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On opinion. Same as when I said Ange would fail and was correct. I would much prefer an Iraola than a Xavi who imo will struggle outside the Barcelona bubble.

Yamal is hardly a normal youngster. That Barcelona team was still talented. Barcelona always have talent.

He tapered off massively, was awful in Europe and Flick has shown him up. No thanks.

We aren’t hiring him and he wouldn’t come here anyway imo so it’s all moot. But screams failure outside Spain to me.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Meh

Iraola is like Eddie Howe. His team is solid and plays very analytically sound but not especially exciting football. He's very capable of getting us back to somewhere between 8th and 4th, where our wage bracket should have us ranging.

But if anyone has seen the football that PSG played the other day under Luis Enrique, or the way Inter pay under Inzaghi, Bayern under Kompany... the really exciting teams in the world right now... or Leverkeusen of last year, that's the level I wish we were aiming for and I don't see anything from Iraola that makes me think he's got that level of football in his locker. I'm wrong about plenty of things so maybe I'm wrong about this but not sure anyone can claim to know he does have that based on this season or last season.

I also think this season the smart teams understood the schedule after a summer with the Euros would mean a need for a slightly more pragmatic style of football. In that bracket is Newcastle, Liverpool, Bournemoth for sure. This summer is no major events. We could be right back to full intensity style of Pep and old Klopp style Liverpool. Whatever we do for next season I hope we are trying to be where the trend is going or even setting a trend and not just reactively one step behind, following what the smart clubs did this year.
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I remember that when I suggested Luis Enrique as Spurs head-coach after he was sacked as Spain's national team, almost all feed-back basically was negative - he was apparently played boring tiki-take footy with no end-product :cool:
As for Iraola, I am also not totally convinced by him but that's the case for all doable candidates touted as the next in the hot seat
 
Pathfinder said:
I remember that when I suggested Luis Enrique as Spurs head-coach after he was sacked as Spain's national team, almost all feed-back basically was negative - he was apparently played boring tiki-take footy with no end-product :cool:
As for Iraola, I am also not totally convinced by him but that's the case for all doable candidates touted as the next in the hot seat
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i would've taken Enrique also. but he had ruled himself out of moving after i guess chelsea rejected him, see if i can find the quote in which he stuck the dagger in...

ah yes.

“I would like to go to England to work. But I don’t see myself in the Premier League in July, because I would like to go to a team there that can do important things and that is very difficult. I would not go to any Premier League team.”
:levystare:
 
Deuterz said:
On opinion. Same as when I said Ange would fail and was correct. I would much prefer an Iraola than a Xavi who imo will struggle outside the Barcelona bubble.

Yamal is hardly a normal youngster. That Barcelona team was still talented. Barcelona always have talent.

He tapered off massively, was awful in Europe and Flick has shown him up. No thanks.

We aren’t hiring him and he wouldn’t come here anyway imo so it’s all moot. But screams failure outside Spain to me.
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I would answer but then Pathfinder nailed it

Pathfinder said:
I remember that when I suggested Luis Enrique as Spurs head-coach after he was sacked as Spain's national team, almost all feed-back basically was negative - he was apparently played boring tiki-take footy with no end-product :cool:
As for Iraola, I am also not totally convinced by him but that's the case for all doable candidates touted as the next in the hot seat
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If we hired Jose and Conte at his peak, I'd say any manager is doable for this club tbh.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I would answer but then Pathfinder nailed it



If we hired Jose and Conte at his peak, I'd say any manager is doable for this club tbh.
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Enrique is levels ahead of Xavi. And even then I’m not convinced he’d work here. We are best suited with the current setup to an up and coming coach like Poch was. If the Qataris come in then sure..

Jose was fucking dusted by the time he ended up here and Conte never wanted to be here and we were a paycheck. Then he fucked off as soon as he got sick of us. And he’s already burnt lots of bridges.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Interesting why do so many want Iraola and not Fabian Hürzeler then? Brighton play better than Bournemouth, they've just gone above them too .
Why's one the hipsters choice , and the other isn't
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For me personally I think it's because it's Iraola and his team that have elevated Bournemouth to where they are more so than the club/player recruitment itself.(They were dreadful before he was there, and really struggling)

Brighton have proved that regardless who their manager is they have maintained a consistent level for a few years suggesting their recruitment is at a Better level and the ideology at the club remains consistent.

I would take both managers and their staff without question over what we currently have
 
Richard Arlison said:
Why are we best suited to an up and coming coach?

btw Xavi is an up and coming coach.
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Because this club doesn't want to spend money on players in their prime who are big improvements on the team. They won't go out and spend 250k a week on a game changing player, the club won't take risks. We are happy in our comfort zone and want to spend most of our budget on a nursery.

He is, I just don't rate him. Enrique isn't.
 
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