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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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Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
He treated Paul Pogba like shit the player he wanted and their record buy. Deir tried to get him at Man United I remember him all over him in the tunnel binned him off in the end after extending his contract. Alderweireld was who he wanted when United got Bailey. He then binned Toby that capricious shit IS WHAT Jose dose. He was banging on about how every time he played Wolves Doherty tormented him and wanting him for ages lol😂
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Stop talking about Jose. He's gone. His history is annulled and we all hate him. This is about new manager not has been cunt.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Let’s see what happens if we offer to double his salary.

That’s what we’d do in normal times to get him and we probably would. But I suspect he’s too expensive.
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I can't get past his chubby face, fake teeth and suntan press conferences at Liverpool, the stuff he would come out with at the time was cringeworthy. I don't deny his qualities as a coach but I genuinely think his ego will get the better of him at a bigger club.

Plus he's chav connections. Pass.
 
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All I want is a manager with a clear plan and football that is technical, fast, creative and enjoyable to watch. I'm past caring about top 4 or trophies. Back to basics me thinks
 
The history of Ajax managers after leaving Ajax is grim in the 21st century. Koeman the best by a good margin, yikes.

Most of wanted De Boer or Van Gaal over Poch. Thank fuck Levy got it right once. Hopefully Ten Hag isn’t shit.
 
I think the only one who is even available now is Rangnick. Get him in this week to start assessing which players can stay and which can fuck off whilst Mason leads the squad for the rest of the season.

Waiting for the transfer window to open in order to start the process is cowardly and will almost guarantee the deadwood will stay put another full year seeing as The Hitch doesn't work in January.
 
ElTel said:
All I want is a manager with a clear plan and football that is technical, fast, creative and enjoyable to watch. I'm past caring about top 4 or trophies. Back to basics me thinks
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This is the way it should be. If the manager can achieve this it puts us/them in the position to win something. You can't win anything if you're not a good football team to start off with (unless you get the luck draws). I'd also rather be losing a Cup Semi or final than be nowhere near getting to them.
 
Genuine question here for those championing Potter, what is the real basis for it? What has he achieved in the game that say Eddie How, Steven Gerrard or Dean Smith for example haven’t, 3 names that no one would want near the job?

Do Brighton play decent stuff? Yes.
Are they punching above their weight? No.
Are they a tough team in any way to play against? Not really.

Don’t get me wrong, if he does somehow get the job I’ll back him 100%, but I really just do not get the fascination with him? I’m hoping someone will enlighten me...
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
Not sure that follows its not a method that has failed. We built a playing staff around progressive front foot play then got a defensive coach who tried to coach players out of their skill set. Mourinho’s thinking was flawed. Replacing a coach who had embedded an ethos and going the other way diametrically was an obvious error.
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Aye, we were playing progressive football, but had been poor for a year before Poch got sacked. So it’s fair that we look at our players and philosophy and decide that to replace like for like probably won’t work. We’ve always done it. Can’t recall us ever replacing a manager with one from a similar background, or similar philosophy.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, just that we’ve always done this.
 
TomHotspur said:
Genuine question here for those championing Potter, what is the real basis for it? What has he achieved in the game that say Eddie How, Steven Gerrard or Dean Smith for example haven’t, 3 names that no one would want near the job?

Do Brighton play decent stuff? Yes.
Are they punching above their weight? No.
Are they a tough team in any way to play against? Not really.

Don’t get me wrong, if he does somehow get the job I’ll back him 100%, but I really just do not get the fascination with him? I’m hoping someone will enlighten me...
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He took a 4th tier Swedish side into their top division, qualified for Europe, and fought through the group stages to make it into the knockout rounds.

That is generally considered a hell of a lot of good work in Football Manager, and not something done in real life. So yeah, he seems to know how to coach a team tactically, and do the man management stuff as well.
 
AberdeenYid said:
Poch may well be the first guy to break a long held tradition of he wins the CL. Is there any other manager we’ve ever had that we haven’t completely fucked the career of? I can think of one that has gone on to succeed after being exposed to our club.

They say the England job is a poisoned chalice, but I’m thinking joining us is a quicker route to football suicide.
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I think AVB hasn't been a trainwreck after leaving us and Marseille is a slight step down but not a terrible place to have ended up even if it was a disaster at the end.

Although if that is the one counter to the argument it isn't really that strong of a counter.
 
AberdeenYid said:
Aye, we were playing progressive football, but had been poor for a year before Poch got sacked. So it’s fair that we look at our players and philosophy and decide that to replace like for like probably won’t work. We’ve always done it. Can’t recall us ever replacing a manager with one from a similar background, or similar philosophy.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, just that we’ve always done this.
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Coming to think of it, that's true.

Apart from Santini.

He was so shit you couldn't even decide what he was or how. I mean, would you employ him to teach your squad to attack? To defend? To do gardening?

Impossible to label faeces like that.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
He took a 4th tier Swedish side into their top division, qualified for Europe, and fought through the group stages to make it into the knockout rounds.

That is generally considered a hell of a lot of good work in Football Manager, and not something done in real life. So yeah, he seems to know how to coach a team tactically, and do the man management stuff as well.
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Decent achievement, granted, but is that really enough to warrant a place as manager of a team that supposedly has ambitions of becoming one of Europe’s best?

His achievements with both Swansea and Brighton are mediocre at best and one would have to work really hard to try and big them up...
 
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