I'm really not sold on Iraola at all and I've been watching his teams longer than most on this forum.
It's all very "flavour of the month".
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I'm really not sold on Iraola at all and I've been watching his teams longer than most on this forum.
It's all very "flavour of the month".
It's not like I think Iraola is the person we should go for, I just get tickled by people saying we could never get him like it should be such an impossible task for a club of our size with our resources
Iraola would want to go to a club where he's going to be backed to take the next step in his career.
Iraola would have to see us as a great opportunity. I think he would join at the end of the season, but not now for obvious reasons.
How much has he spent at Bournemouth?
Amorim going from the Superliga to the Premier League and Man Utd is a massive step up, Utd we're not, also Utd have been after Amorim before they won the FA Cup.
Also he will get backed over there, they backed Ten Hag with £600m
I don't think we're as a big a draw that some fans think we are, certainly to other managers.
I'd be interested to see how much Bournemouth have spent as a per capita of revenue compared to us.
Anyone considered Sebastian Hoeness? Done a great job at Stuggart. And wouldn't be a total departure from possession based game, he's reasonably flexible with his structures (Could bring Angelo Stiller with him).
Surely he would wait for that job before choosing Spurs...?
I’d take Bob Holness at this stage.
Would also be a great get.
That can't really be quantified yet tbh, what Alonso has done with Leverkusen is certainly very impressive but the PL is a much more competitive league from top to bottom, Bournemouth are massively punching above their weight taking into account the size of their stadium, fanbase and transfer spend. If he gets them into Europe to me that is certainly close to on par with beating a bizarrely poorly managed Bayern team to the title when no other club was really serious about challenging them both. Don't get me wrong I think Alonso essentially has his pick of jobs whereas Iraola is probably dining more at that 4th-8th place table come summertime when clubs are looking at him, so they are certainly a bit apart in stature and reputation right now, but I don't think you can definitively say Alonso is a much better coach than Iraola.
Also I take your point on him being Basque but its not just as cut and dried as that, chances are that job will be there at some point in the back end of his career and he doesn't need to take it for the reputation boost, he's already got eyes on him for what he's doing with Bournemouth in the PL. At this stage in his career that would be a weird move IMO, not to mention there's every chance Valverde renews since he has them in the CL spots and won the Copa Del Rey last year.
Makes you wonder about all those Celtic fans that were coming in here waxing lyrical about how orgasm-inducing his attacking football was. I mean what difference is it Rodgers or Ange, they dominate every fucking game they play in regardless who is in charge, you get no credit for winning anything in Scotland with Celtic but you get fucking hounded if you don't win all the domestic pots on offer.
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I actually doubt we'd beat Dundee United considering we drew with Rangers and they drew with Rangers
Rodgers' Celtic could probably beat us