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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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FightingIllini said:
Us, Leicester, Everton, Woolwich looking a bit like a defined "next tier"

Then Leeds, Wolves, and Villa as sort of nominal pretenders to that next tier class (and Palace sort of aspiring to be there as well based on their spending), then a bunch of dross aiming for survival.
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I guess the Spam would need to be in one of these tiers. Surely the Leeds/Wolves/Villa one at minimum, whether they have any staying power as a player for the European places remains to be seen. The sweetheart stadium deal helps.
 
ElTel said:
Also has anybody told PSG that we are announcing Poch tomorrow. :levyeyes:
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Imagine a club bankrolled by an entire country, not wanting to lose their manager, are in the Champions League, with players who are world class and cost an absolute fortune.....unable to stand up to Levy’s £3.75 + add ons and Alfie Whiteman on loan. What a temptress Daniel is.

something tells me these Poch stories are pure theatre ahead of a really naff appointment. That’s why really I want Bob Bradley a winner, a man without equals and someone who can lend a voice to NFL. Win / Win.
 
FightingIllini said:
That's fair, and I don't mean to say no one can nick 4th the way we or Everton did back in the 2000's.

But in terms of the size of the clubs and the scale of their ambitions, those four are leaving everyone else behind. And four is an important number because of the financial drawbridge of CL qualification.

The gap from those four to everyone else is growing, not shrinking. And Spurs are rapidly becoming indistinguishable from the rest of the chasing pack. Us, Leicester, Everton, Woolwich looking a bit like a defined "next tier"

Then Leeds, Wolves, and Villa as sort of nominal pretenders to that next tier class (and Palace sort of aspiring to be there as well based on their spending), then a bunch of dross aiming for survival.
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When it comes to the CL remember the changes coming in 2024 where there are two spots for the top 2 clubs with the highest co-efficient that don't qualify which will help us and Woolwich. Maybe Leicester can try to get into that range in the next two years, but I doubt it.

To me that and other things clearly put us above Leicester and Everton. At this point I would say it is too early to put Leicester and Everton in a group with us and Woolwich. I think if you are saying their is now a "big 4" that it would be a biggish 2 in their own group after them and then tier 2 with Leicester, Everton and maybe others.
 
New candidate throws hat into ring

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