Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde


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Honestly don’t care unless we are getting are DOF in, even Poch needed that little push from Paul Mitchell in the transfer market to get us to 16/17 levels. We won’t go far with out getting a structure in place.

Please Daniel. :levystare:
Ten Hag has worked as a DOF previously. So he has at least some experience doing those duties as well.
 
We could resurrect Bill Nic and have Burkinshaw and Poch's heads added to his shoulders like some form of managerial cerberus and people would still not be happy.
 
Yeah, so well balanced that they’re 17th.

People being suspect of a manager not being able to translate his ideas in other leagues is genuine, however in my opinion a good manager is a good manager, end of. He will find ways to adapt, just like Guardiola, Klopp, Bielsa etc adapted.

And then you’re talking about ten Hag’s achievements as if he’s done nothing but would hilariously choose Potter instead, who’s done exactly nothing too. At least ten Hag won a few trophies...

Winning the Dutch league and cup with Ajax is no more an achievement than winning a goldfish and some candy floss at a fairground, as Frank de Boer proves. Potter took an obscure Swedish team from the fourth to the first division and into the Europa League, this is a very noteworthy achievement.

People are enamoured by Ten Hag because he sounds exotic and a couple of CL games in 2019. On closer inspection he doesn't stack up as well. He's actually older than Guardiola yet he's only been on anyone's radar for a couple of years.

Giving the job to someone who has spent his entire playing and managerial career in the Netherlands is just too risky. It could work out but it could also fail spectacularly.
 
We could resurrect Bill Nic and have Burkinshaw and Poch's heads added to his shoulders like some form of managerial cerberus and people would still not be happy.
It is incredible. Any managerial appointment that is decent is mostly down to luck. Who thought Jol, Redknapp and Poch would push us on like they did? Avoid the real duffers like Southgate and now with Nagelsmann and Rodgers out its pretty much toss a coin on the rest. Whats more important for us is to change our football structure away from the pitch, which it seems Levy & Hitchen don't want to do.
 
Seeing that ten Hag is a popular choice among the fans I also hope that they’re patient and don’t expect things to happen overnight. I think we’ll see a bit of a progress over the start of the next season but if things go well, it’ll take more than just a season to make this club competitive again.
The performances are more important than the results, in the initial phase. If there are zero signs of any style of play evolving or taking shape (patterns of play with and without the ball, structure and shape of the team) then this is where any concerns are rightly justified and should be raised and debated.
 
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