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Management 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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Imagine...... Now stay with me on this.

Flick as manager

Rangnick as DOF

mind blow wow GIF
That’s a lot of Germans in London. Could we call their playing style a “blitzkrieg”?
 
On the one hand, Potter makes more sense to me as someone who will come in to be the head coach, cheer the mood up, get us playing in accordance with the club's identity and the philosophy of our academy again, and let the club's leadership sort out its financial future and the major squad question marks in the mean time.

He might be laughed out of a now-toxic dressing room and be gone by Christmas, but he also might be a breath of fresh air, and even if he sucks, so what? He will never be the biggest fish we have to fry.

But on the other hand, I know in my bones that if pre-Spurs Poch were managing Brighton, they would be way further up the table. Potter has played some nice football, but to what concrete impact? Surely we can do better.
 
Can you expand on why you feel this way?
Bielsa type football will only take you so far.
He's old, so short term.
My feeling is that we should employ someone who will use what we have and get the best from them.
Parker or Potter would be my choice.
We don't have the same money at Kuwait or Russian mafia so we should not always think that we must have some genius who will, perform miracles.
Parker has found some genius players to try to save Fulham.
Potter plays good football.
 
What if it’s not Rangnick or Potter. But Rangnick and Potter

I think Rangnick likes to develop young coaches into his way of doing things, so as DOF he'd ideally like to employ a disciple, and probably a German one. The likes of Werner and Hasenhuttle are Rangnick "products", and they have/are coming up a bit short, and Rangnickism in its purest form seems to have limitations that hit a glass ceiling, certainly in the PL, whereas the better Rangnick disciples develop the philosophy further with their own ideas, these are coaches like Nagelsmann and Tuchel.

Potter is someone who's developed his own ideas of football and a Ragnick/Potter combo could be a recipe for conflict or it could produce an interesting dynamic that produces good results.
 
I think Rangnick likes to develop young coaches into his way of doing things, so as DOF he'd ideally like to employ a disciple, and probably a German one. The likes of Werner and Hasenhuttle are Rangnick "products", and they have/are coming up a bit short, and Rangnickism in its purest form seems to have limitations that hit a glass ceiling, certainly in the PL, whereas the better Rangnick disciples develop the philosophy further with their own ideas, these are coaches like Nagelsmann and Tuchel.

Potter is someone who's developed his own ideas of football and a Ragnick/Potter combo could be a recipe for conflict or it could produce an interesting dynamic that produces good results.
I mainly said it in jest, but knowing very little about both of these guys you could have some good points.

We’d be lucky to end up with either tbh, but knowing our luck we’ll end up with some out of left field option that nobody has mentioned yet.

Who knows maybe it’ll be Van Gaal.
 
There's no doubt Ralgf Rangnick is a footballing visionary.

However, if he had the attributes required to become a successful manager, why have no German clubs taken the risk of appointing him? Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig etc. have all had managerial vacancies in recent years, and chosen not to put him in.
 
There's no doubt Ralgf Rangnick is a footballing visionary.

However, if he had the attributes required to become a successful manager, why have no German clubs taken the risk of appointing him? Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig etc. have all had managerial vacancies in recent years, and chosen not to put him in.

he just spent 4 years there probably unlikely that he would go back and there were rumours linking him to Frankfurt and Schalke recently, but it seems like he turned them down because they didn't offer him what he wanted.
 
Waiting for the follow up tweet where "Tottenham didn't end up wanting Rangnick after finding out he's not fluent in English"
“There was some bad translation from Google Translate during the interview. Levy said he would not back the new manager with a huge transfer budget, but Google Translate didn’t pick up the “not” as Levy whispered the “not” part of the sentence. When this was clarified Rangnick decided to take a step back. Levy was left astounded at the poor quality of Google Translate’s English.”
 
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