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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:
a bullshit vortex.
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For those of you worried it might be Mason, you can relax. There’s no way he’s making pointed and fucking sensible comments like this at Levy if he has any chance in getting the job:

How much work does this squad need in the transfer window once the new manager comes in to make it compete again?

Of course I think there is work because we have a big squad, a lot of players on loan and decisions to make. First of all there is a lot of decisions to make about our current squad. That's probably the priority. I think the most important work is probably away from the transfer window right now because you need a manager in place, you need commitment, you need an idea to know where you go. You can't do transfer business without a manager because it might not fit his idea. At the moment I believe we need an idea of what we want to do, who we want to be and stick to it. Recruit people for that and ultimately recruit players for that.

You spoke about a succession plan for players but also staff?

Yeah, I did say not just players, it's members of staff as well. If you want to be a successful football club on the pitch then everyone working for the organisation within the football club has to be on board with what we are and who we are. I think that when you have an idea of that, when people leave, it is probably for easier to pick people to come in and I think it makes it a lot more fluid and easy to plan for these type of things. I hope going forward that's definitely the case
 
Australian guy seems like an easy guy to root for and plays good football. I’m still a Potter fan. I’d take one of those two and be pretty ok with it. Certainly not guarantees but I’d rather have someone we can actually get behind but who has proven they are a good COACH. Trying to hire too many “winners.” If you coach well, play well, recruit well…the results will come.

I’m pretty meh on the Sporting guy and Frankfurt guy. Enrique a big no no for me. Last thing we need is another big name coach with big ego. Tried that with Conte, clearly doesn’t work with the way our club is run.
 
My expectations for next season are already, rightly, low. With that in mind, the minimum expectation I have is to get someone in who will play attacking football, ship out the older dross and promote youth so I can get behind the team, feel a connection and be excited to make the trip to Tottenham on the weekend.
 
Oracle said:
My expectations for next season are already, rightly, low. With that in mind, the minimum expectation I have is to get someone in who will play attacking football, ship out the older dross and promote youth so I can get behind the team, feel a connection and be excited to make the trip to Tottenham on the weekend.
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Yep. I could take a 7th or 8th if you see a good coach improving players, attacking football, a young team emerging and some green shoots. If its 7th or 8th with Dier, Hojbjerg, Perisic all playing with no real improvement then nah.
 




FWIW, I don't think it'll be Postecoglou (reckon he'll end up at another Premier League club), but the guy's CV and upwards career trajectory is impressive. He's knocking it out of the park everywhere he's hired.

Plus, he emigrated to Australia by boat with his family from Greece when he was 5 year-old, you'll never sing that.
 
bus-conductor said:
I said this last time (when we appointed Paratici) and it turned out to be the case I think, but maybe what’s happening right now is Levy/Munn are concentrating more on getting the DOF appointment sorted out, and then including him in the head coach consultation process.

All the noise about managers, is probably mostly just that.

Would really help if Levy/Munn communicated with the fans/media about the process. The communication vacuum just creates a bullshit vortex.
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On this, I have to disagree, B-C.

Watching Donna Cullen patting Levy in sympathy as the crowd chanted "Daniel Levy get out of our club", and his grim visage, makes me suspect he's panicking & hiding in a boardroom cupboard.

Levy & Munn wanted JN, but refused to give him the structure & control he is demanding.

They wanted Slot, but didn't do proper due diligence about the fee Feyonoord would insist upon (if we believe the official narrative), & have been very publicly humiliated.

They didn't want Poch, hence his departure for the chavs.

They don't want Gallardo, allegedly because his English isn't good enough at this stage to be considered.

They're doubtless scared of a big, control freak, ego like Luis Enqrique after the Mourinho & Conte clusterfucks.

So the list is probably down to the Aussie, Rodgers, Potter, Mason & Fat Sam. And they're trying to gauge fan reaction to any of that bunch.

Levy can hire as many DoFs as he likes. It's all irrelevant because he insists on meddling in every single transfer, & on buying players the coach doesn't want (eg Jack Clarke under Poch, Spence under Conte).

I don't believe there's any meaningful process going on. Just sheer panic as Levy has nightmares of Freddie Krueger appearing out of the crowd to stalk him....
 
Ozzz said:
With all due respect, you haven't a clue.

Ange wins everything, everywhere he goes. I'm a Celt from Oz so will be deeply disappointed if he leaves, but will always be interested in his career.

The thing to understand about Ange is that he cut his teeth in salary capped leagues and national teams, both of which come mwith their own limitations on available players.

In a salary capped league, the only man who truly makes a difference is the manager and Ange has proven himself again and again in Australia, and then Japan which is a significantly higher standard. He also took the Oz NT to the World Cup in 2018 and won the Asian Cup in 2015.

In fact, the J League is a better standard than Scotland, in my view, but managing Celtic comes with pressures that will never be experienced in Asia - or most of Europe to be fair.

He was seriously doubted when he went to Celtic but gradually won over the fans with:

- his masterful control of the media
- his deep affinity for the club and the fans
- his deep knowledge of player markets all over the world
- his eye for talent and building a squad
- his capacity to build a successful team culture
- his unrelenting attacking style of play
- his return of Celtic to the winners list in nearly every competition after they'd been left in a total shambles by the previous administration.

On top of all that, he is a lovely human being and you will be very fortunate indeed if he comes to Spurs.

My only concern for Ange in the EPL is that he is relatively inexperienced when it comes to dealing with players and agents on mega salaries and the notorious shenanigans they get up to. It's entirely possible that Ange could be undermined by a cabal of players / agents who dislike his system. He's a very hard taskmaster and Spurs will be the fittest team in the EPL if he has time to impose his system. They have to be fit to play his never stop Angeball game.

Some players won't like that so Ange MUST have the power to get rid or outlast the contracts of dickheads.

If Levy has the courage to invest in a minimum three year project then Spurs will be back in the Champions League within that time.

Having said all that, I want him to stay at Celtic.
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Thanks. I want him to stay at Celtic too.

So all the best.
 
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