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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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bus-conductor said:
Getting the right DOF is still more important. This guy oversee the footballing strategy for the foreseeable and outlast the next head coach hopefully.

As far as manager goes, despite being more excited about people like Nagelsmann, De Zerbi and Slot, I still think the most sensible choice for the mess we are in would be someone like Potter. He's a good coach, doesn't spend every fucking week clubbing to the media about only being able to work with the shit he's got, can work with footballers who aren't superstars and improve them, he won't be a tactical shock to our system - more a progressive evolution and won't render people like Porro, Spence and Udogie useless immediately.

Potter wouldn't get most of us sucking each other off, but would probably be a very shrewd choice if given some time to work.

That said, he doesn't even seem to be in the running.
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Completely agree with this. Appointing a manager, even the best in the world, without a coherent process for how the club ascends to a higher level is futile. We aren’t going to bang 250m in one summer. We have to be smart about how we operate.

Every single manager including Pep would fail here if there isn’t the correct infrastructure sitting over the top of the club, and a strategy that aligns everything from youth development, to transfer policy and managerial hires.

I’d be reasonably pleased with Potter too, but I want to see a clear direction for this club more importantly.

We are utterly rudderless right now.
 
Gatsby said:
Add to that he’s played a 3 at the back system at both Brighton and Chelsea.

Potter would be my choice now, but equally would be happy with Slot or Amorim.


As for being in the running, the bookies don’t know anything. DoF is key as they’ll be the one to work with the manager and plan the summer window.
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Appointing Potter now would be a disaster. We need an appointment to excite the fans. Mind you, on the basis the club seem to do anything but the right thing we’ll probably bring him or Brenton in.
 
bus-conductor said:
Getting the right DOF is still more important. This guy oversee the footballing strategy for the foreseeable and outlast the next head coach hopefully.

As far as manager goes, despite being more excited about people like Nagelsmann, De Zerbi and Slot, I still think the most sensible choice for the mess we are in would be someone like Potter. He's a good coach, doesn't spend every fucking week clubbing to the media about only being able to work with the shit he's got, can work with footballers who aren't superstars and improve them, he won't be a tactical shock to our system - more a progressive evolution and won't render people like Porro, Spence and Udogie useless immediately.

Potter wouldn't get most of us sucking each other off, but would probably be a very shrewd choice if given some time to work.

That said, he doesn't even seem to be in the running.
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But that doesn’t happen at THFC. All the DOF is is a person Levy can sack rather than himself when it all goes wrong because of his decision making and not letting the DOF get on with his job. They’re a powerless pawn in it all ultimately. At a normal football club what you say would probably happen, but not with us.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Appointing Potter now would be a disaster. We need an appointment to excite the fans. Mind you, on the basis the club seem to do anything but the right thing we’ll probably bring him or Brenton in.
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We don’t need an appointment to “excite the fans”. That sort of short-termism is whats’s got us in this mess; it’s why Levy went for Jose and Conte.

We need to make choices and decisions throughout the club with a view to a longer term plan. We need to decide who we are as a club, how we get there and what style we play, and then appoint a manager that aligns to that - whether he’s a “sexy” appointment or not.

If we’ve learned anything since Poch went, it’s that trying to cover the cracks of a poorly run club with big name managers absolutely does not fucking work.
 
Gatsby said:
Add to that he’s played a 3 at the back system at both Brighton and Chelsea.

Potter would be my choice now, but equally would be happy with Slot or Amorim.


As for being in the running, the bookies don’t know anything. DoF is key as they’ll be the one to work with the manager and plan the summer window.
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All that makes sense but our need is so pressing.

This season is done and thank God for that, without wishing im any sense to wish my life away, but an excess of delay may have all manner of negative impact.

It might (only might) be a question of getting a manager in but making clear the intended structure, which means working under a DoF.

Our season is like this so called spring in that it doesn't seem like it happened but the reality of the start of next season (autumm) looms large and creates a somewhat depressing reality.

We need an objectively good manager in the doors every bit as much as we need to see blue sky and to get some warmth into the never-ending chill of the air.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Appointing Potter now would be a disaster. We need an appointment to excite the fans. Mind you, on the basis the club seem to do anything but the right thing we’ll probably bring him or Brenton in.
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The optics of Poch going to Chelsea and us getting their 5 month reject who couldnt buy a goal would be horrendous whether fair or not. The first iffy spell and he'd be under pressure. It would be the wrong move for him as well, going from one basket case of a club to another. He needs a smaller more stable club.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
The optics of Poch going to Chelsea and us getting their 5 month reject who couldnt buy a goal would be horrendous whether fair or not. The first iffy spell and he'd be under pressure. It would be the wrong move for him as well, going from one basket case of a club to another. He needs a smaller more stable club.
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This is a good point well made but could work in our favour if Potter were to work under a more settled structure under which he could conttibute to.

What he would not have is the pressure of what's gone before, whereas the exoectation of and on Pochettino will be huge.

But in the round I tend to agree with you.
 
CerealMaterial said:
Gallardo is a weird one. I'm not going to pretend I know anything about him other than some articles I've read, but what he did at River Plate did seem quite amazing.

Other managers seem to really rate him, but no club seems to want to go anywhere near him. Wonder if they all view him a bigger risk than younger championship/European managers.
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Gallardo has said he won't join a club mid season and has rejected Brighton and Leeds this season.

He also turned down Barcelona a couple of years back, as he was committed to River Plate.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Appointing Potter now would be a disaster. We need an appointment to excite the fans. Mind you, on the basis the club seem to do anything but the right thing we’ll probably bring him or Brenton in.
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This! Once we start passing sideways, create a few chances, go 1-0 in the 60th minue at home against Bournemouth and he instantly subs Son for Davinson, the place will get real nasty in no time. The English Mourinho is not the answer.

I don't have something against Potter per se. Really. I respect what he has achieved and believe he's a good, maybe even great, man manager. He's just a god awful fit.
 
GeorgeGraham said:
Now compare Mourinho’s professional career versus Ardiles (or Hoddle)?
There are plenty of mediocre players that make great managers and vice versa.
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Sure, but unlike Mason, he was always headed towards coaching.
Same as Nagelsmann.
And Mourinho spent a good few years learning his trade under senior coaches like Robson and Van Gaal first.

Mason might be a good coach one day, but not yet.
 
It had to be JN. Or poch and now that those two are out of the picture it really is downhill abd depressing. Certainly cannot be mason! Those who think so need to see a doctor.
 
FutureSkipper said:
Arne Slot will most likely win the title today with Feyenoord. :levyeyes:
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Just makes most sense.

Finished joint top on goal difference with tiny AZ before the league got abandoned due to COVID and has now dragged Feyenoord to to the title within 3 years of management and has played great football doing it with inferior players to the teams around him.

Were 10/1 to win the league this season. Lost Malacia and Sinisterra in the summer yet sit 7 points clear with 3 games to go.

Plays 433 or 4231 which is much better for our personnel. Has a relentless press which has seen him have the best defensive record in the league and has improved young players.

Ticks all the boxes.
 
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Starks said:
Just makes most sense.

Finished joint top on goal difference with tiny AZ before the league got abandoned due to COVID and has now dragged Feyenoord to to the title within 3 years of management and has played great football doing it with inferior players to the teams around him.

Were 10/1 to win the league this season. Lost Malacia and Sinisterra in the summer yet sit 7 points clear with 3 games to go.

Plays 433 or 4231 which is much better for our personnel. Has a relentless press which has seen him have the best defensive record in the league and has improved young players.

Ticks all the boxes.
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4-3-3 is definitely not better with our personnel. Our 3 most exciting prospects are wing-backs, and are not suited at all to a back 4 (Udogie, Porro, Spence).
3-4-1-2 is the formation that suits this squad the most, and I don't know if Slot uses that formation at all.
 
Darnswim said:
4-3-3 is definitely not better with our personnel. Our 3 most exciting prospects are wing-backs, and are not suited at all to a back 4 (Udogie, Porro, Spence).
3-4-1-2 is the formation that suits this squad the most, and I don't know if Slot uses that formation at all.
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We really have been starved of good coaching when we start to believe that wing backs can't be coached into playing full back in a functioning high pressing team.
 
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