I know mate, lots of managers get reputations from people who dont watch their teams regularly. Mowbray is a point in case on here. Out of those suggested Manning would be my choice, so long as he brings most of his staff with him, and he has a lot. His background is so good, in terms of the sort of the clubs he has been at, and he is showing what he is all about. When they beat us just after Alex Neil took charge last year it was the most complete footballing performance all season. They were tactically oustanding and we had no answers to them.
He was there 10 years. I reckon that's long enough time to influence recruiting the type of players you need to implent your chosen style of play
Tactics and how the team play become quite personal and depend on your view point of the game etc. It's impossible really. Me I want a team that attack down the wings, throw cross after cross into the box to 2 decent forwards. Full backs that can crunch into tackles and give the ball to the tricky winger to do his magic or chuck a cross into the box from a deep position. A centre half that can head the ball miles and a centre midfielder like Keane in his prime. Trouble is that isn't modern football and I fully appreciate the game has moved on massively. Essentially I want the Reid team back I couldnt stand to watch the passing for passing sakes style that some love
Interesting you mention his back room staff and then coming with him? Is there a particular reason for this?
If we aren't paying the market rate then there is no way any manager is going to stick around! In my line of work I can work for in the public sector or I can work in the private sector and earn double. I 100% understand him going for monet, what annoys me is the way he has done it.
It’s all about opinions and I loved watching our style under Reid but also I f you watch a good “passing” team, they’ll pass and pass and pass until a gap opens up and then the exploit it with quick through balls and fast paced attacks. I think that is what Poyet wanted to implement when he was here but was never allowed the players to achieve it. I could see what he was trying to do but I could also see it frustrated the life out of some supporters who’d be screaming for the defence to lump it up the pitch
the usual Keane link has now happened in the irish Independent would not be a manger search without a keane link would it https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...alex-neil-leaves-for-stoke-city-41943180.html
I'm far from a "lump it" style but the constant sideways and backward passing some teams employ is mind numbing for me. A combination of Reid style with Poyet style sounds good to me
But what is a market rate in football - even in the Championship there will be huge differences between clubs (and the Premiership) - when he states market rate does he just mean Stoke's market rate. I am disappointed by the whole affair - the timing etc - it feels all wrong However there are a number of issues off the field the club need to address - vacancies/their PR/commercial side.etc. These need to be addressed ASAP so there are many things to improve - some seem to have taken longer than necessary. So there are issues to address - I feel that the club have been dumped in it by AN but there is still a long way to go for KLD and the board. The immediate thing is the manager/head coach. In all honesty I am unsure about KS as DoF as he had previously been Head of Academy but this will play out in the long term - the recruitment is encouraging
Definitely don’t want Keane. I like the way we’re trying to move forward now and think we need a young hungry coach not an old school manager.
Was literally having this conversation yesterday. A non-league manager I know said he thought we'd easily get Dyche. I said, yeah but the club want to play a certain way, 433 and a high press etc. To which he replied, yeah, and Dyche is known for 442 but you don't know what he could do with more capable players.
I really don’t want Keane. I wanted him before Neil but it was purely for sentimental reasons when I think back. He’s been out of management too long and we’re a totally different club now.
He had more capable players at Burnley than he'll walk into at Sunderland. He was at Burnley for a decade, that was more than enough time to stamp his style on the club. It was always the same.
Only problem with that is that other clubs think they can recruit a magician, so offer an underpaid Head Coach more money and we lose him and end up with someone who perhaps doesn't fit the model etc
