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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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We don't think the asking price was too high.

Our chairman apparently did.

Then again, he doesn't like paying for nice things. If you'd asked him for 12 instead of 15 he'd have probably paid. It's the principle for him you see. If something is priced like it's good enough, he doesn't want it.
You don’t speak for me

IF it was 20m then I agree they can fuck off

What’s poor is not being aware of this fee so balls deep
 
Levy gets excited by paying less for good things.

The quality of the thing becomes secondary for him in comparison to getting a thing for less than it's worth.

He does want good things but not if he has to pay for them.

The idea of Slot was his chance to prove everyone wrong and that he's right. He could go and get a top class manager for less than market value because they were from a lower league.

Problem is, that club saw him coming. Everyone does now.

You can tell this is his mentality from all this talk about bringing in a data model like Brentford and Brighton. He is determined to prove the entire world of football wrong and win things his way by paying less for good things.
This I agree with more …. But 20m for slot. Piss take
 
I'm not saying it makes sense, but it's there for all to see.
He won't pay a bug release fee. He just won't do it.
The £20m number is either made up, or the opening offer.
If you want something, you negotiate.
But he has no bottle.
At least with players, he has a coach putting pressure on him

Oh come on he loves to negotiate, he loves the squeeze of a deal no matter if its for a manager or a player. if anything it's his love of negotiating every last cent of a deal that winds most people up. In this case it seems it's Feyenoord who didn't want to negotiate and Slot himself who would rather stay there.
 
Oh come on he loves to negotiate, he loves the squeeze of a deal no matter if its for a manager or a player. if anything it's his love of negotiating every last cent of a deal that winds most people up. In this case it seems it's Feyenoord who didn't want to negotiate and Slot himself who would rather stay there.
I also don’t believe for a single second that he preferred to stay

What’s he gonna say?
 




 
You don’t speak for me

IF it was 20m then I agree they can fuck off

What’s poor is not being aware of this fee so balls deep

Don't really care about the amount and really 20m for the most important managerial appointment for a loooong time, is peanuts.

We will blow way more than 20m on a bad player this summer. We paid Conte 15m for one year.

But to get this far and not know what it's going to cost is a shambles.

What due diligence were they doing for 50 days that didn't include researching what it would cost. Ball park at least.
 
I'm honestly speechless. We really are fucked.

And if the reports are true that it came down to baulking at the compensation cost, I hope you remember said pound-foolishness Levy when you sack whichever poor bastard we get before Christmas (at cost) and replace him with an ill-fitting glamour appointment in another attempt to paper over the cracks.

 
Don't really care about the amount and really 20m for the most important managerial appointment for a loooong time, is peanuts.

We will blow way more than 20m on a bad player this summer. We paid Conte 15m for one year.

But to get this far and not know what it's going to cost is a shambles.

What due diligence were they doing for 50 days that didn't include researching what it would cost. Ball park at least.

£20M is peanuts - I know inflation is rampant but peanuts????
 
Bring on Nuno 2.0
Missing out on candidate 1,2,and 3. This due diligence phase really paid off. ENIC have a massive mess on their hands. Get a fucking DOF in ASAP. Stop fucking about
 
Don't really care about the amount and really 20m for the most important managerial appointment for a loooong time, is peanuts.

We will blow way more than 20m on a bad player this summer. We paid Conte 15m for one year.

But to get this far and not know what it's going to cost is a shambles.

What due diligence were they doing for 50 days that didn't include researching what it would cost. Ball park at least.
Yeah but no Champions League money now.

You weren't expecting Levy to bridge the gap surely?
 
If fees for coaches under contract really were the issue, why not just grab Poch back when he was basically saying he'd be happy to return?

None of it adds up because Levy clearly has no plan.
 
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