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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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SuperHansForPM said:
These guys really love the smell of their own farts.
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Hang on, don't we all?

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Spaniel said:
Thanks for asking. Yes. I spent 4 months there during the earlier days of the pandemic. The poverty, lack of hygiene etc are a disgrace. Their government is as uncaring as any. Even before the present plague, there were few beds and clean watering holes. Most of my adventures were culinary. I'm not sure you really want the details.
Namaste.
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Hello Giardia my old friend... :)

Travelled North East South West, loved it, feel I'm destined to go further north next time into Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, if my destiny allows it.
 
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It's like ordering the star meal at a michelin restaurant, waiting three hours for it to arrive...

Then they're bringing us a Big Mac aren't they?
 
Juicy Sushi said:
I don't think you're oversimplifying. They definitely failed on that front, and sometimes just plain did not show up for the game. I think my possession concerns might be more about his times before Dortmund. Gladback and Nice were both lower on possession than average under him, but I still think he would very much not be the guy we'd want.
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16-17
1. PSG 61%
2. Nice 56.9

Nice finished 3rd that season, their best finish in the last few years I think.

17-18
1. PSG 62%
2. Nice 56%

I'm not going to bother with BMG and beyond, but both his last two gigs his teams had plenty of the ball and it wasn't all sterile, if anything at Dortmund it seemed more a case that they kept taking unnecessary risks and getting caught out. I think set pieces were also a major weakness, but I might be remembering that wrong.
 
Read something yesterday that poch wanting to leave psg the other week has apparently left a sour taste with owner. Wouldnt surprise me if zidane went there and poch came home. Didnt want conte from start throwing his weight round. Similar to mourinho and conte always looked miserable. Have a break conte. Tough earning 10m a year plus. Hod carriers lucky to get 300 sheets a week. Theyre the ones who need a year off or nhs staff in pandemic.
 
FightingIllini said:
Pep doesn't say who he wants. He says WHAT he wants.

For example, Ruben Dias, signing of the summer, right? Pep wasn't spending his very scarce time scouting CB's all over the continent. In working with his technical staff it was clear a CB was needed, Txiki Begiristain and his staff identified Dias as someone with the qualities necessary to thrive in the kind of football the whole operation has been built around playing, and Begiristain went out and made the deal.

Pep is a figure of such stature at City that if he wanted to kill the deal, I dunno, he probably could have (maybe not, who knows). But why would he? He is in full alignment with City's technical staff who he worked with at Barcelona and who brought him to the club, and there is total trust in both directions.

Maybe it is Pep that wants Kane, but if the cost in money and/or players doesn't fit with City's project, it's not going to happen. It would only get to that point if there was alignment between all the relevant parties anyway, and a deal of that magnitude obviously bears a higher degree of scrutiny.

A manager going to the board and saying "get me player X and player Y" is dinosaur age stuff.
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Agreed in some ways. A manager no longer goes to the board or owners for a player. He now goes to the DOF. The DOF acts on behalf of the board within the mandate handed out. He however doesn't choose the players. He maybe give suggestions that he gets from his scouts but ultimately the manager chooses his players.
 
Pzabbythethird said:
I can imagine it might have been a contingent of Winks, Sissoko and or Ndombele.

Though Ndombele is an enigma and he might have wanted a big name manager who wasn't past it.
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Out of interest, why does there seem to be a consensus on here that Winks is lazy? Clearly he lacks the ability we need, meaning that he is incapable of finding the right pass etc, but I've never thought of him as particularly lazy, well not any more so than half the rest of the squad at least... :/
 
FightingIllini said:
Pep doesn't say who he wants. He says WHAT he wants.

For example, Ruben Dias, signing of the summer, right? Pep wasn't spending his very scarce time scouting CB's all over the continent. In working with his technical staff it was clear a CB was needed, Txiki Begiristain and his staff identified Dias as someone with the qualities necessary to thrive in the kind of football the whole operation has been built around playing, and Begiristain went out and made the deal.

Pep is a figure of such stature at City that if he wanted to kill the deal, I dunno, he probably could have (maybe not, who knows). But why would he? He is in full alignment with City's technical staff who he worked with at Barcelona and who brought him to the club, and there is total trust in both directions.

Maybe it is Pep that wants Kane, but if the cost in money and/or players doesn't fit with City's project, it's not going to happen. It would only get to that point if there was alignment between all the relevant parties anyway, and a deal of that magnitude obviously bears a higher degree of scrutiny.

A manager going to the board and saying "get me player X and player Y" is dinosaur age stuff.
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Jesus, Laporte, Bernardo + £100m please.
Elias said:
But this is where the theoretical model of the DoF hires the head coach & identifies the talent breaks down.

Pep basically to Shitty said "I want Txiki as DoF".

Just as with the NFL General Manager model, the most successful head coaches basically hire GMs who work for them. Eg Belichick, Kyle Shanahan.

Pep won't be saying "Mr DoF, please buy me a striker with these characteristics", which is what Ramos said to Monchi when they bought Fredi Kanoute from us, & he was perfect for their system. That was a genuine DoF - Head Coach system.

Pep will be saying "Txiki, mate, buy me Kane or Haaland - no one else is acceptable."
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Agree, though suspect Haaland would bust his ACL or such if he came here this young. He’d try too hard, which mixed with the tougher environment for his type, means I think Pep is all in on Kane. Haaland is next summers blockbuster IMO.
 
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