I would laugh if we signed Marsch and Leeds signed Schreuder. We'd definitely have got the better deal there.
Haha! Brilliant. We were all so angry. I was so upset. Remember it like it was yesterday. That was a ****ing huge gamble. Fair play to cortese.. genuinely one of the most brilliant manager changes in PL history. Hopefully whoever we bring in fits us like a glove in a similar way
Well there we have Poch's secret. Jones clearly wasn't religious enough. Should've hiked to Netley Abbey to pray for salvation.
This guy is slightly hard to take seriously, but he does largely know his stuff. I don't agree with him re Aribo in that lineup, but it's an interesting watch (and look out for the funny 'mistake' in the subtitles).
Lol Tom you were getting refunds even back then! Shad, Cortese may have been right. Or is Guardiola the Spanish Pochettino lol
At least I had that caveat in there! I'd definitely recommend any future managerial appointments that result in Austrian Guardiolas and Moroccan Pochettinos or any similar sort of thing. The success of that move is the reason I have been far less critical of appointments since, at least until I've seen them in action (including with Jones, though it didn't take much action for any of us to start drawing rather strong conclusions).
i reallly don’t get it if we appoint Marsch. He didn’t do a good enough job at Leeds, why do the board think he will do a good job here?
Oh really, iam gpages behind but we sack one manager who cannot manage for another who cannot manage. I really dislike the guy, but why are we not getting big fat Sam He may keep is up with the honey pot. I really do not get Madrch who Leeds sacked as they were going down. FFFFFFS
Allardyce's reputation as a manager who keeps teams up should probably have dissipated a bit when he took over West Brom midseason, won 1 of his first 12 PL matches, and retained his job through the end of the year largely because they were so nailed-on for relegation that replacing him was pointless.
So the answer, as we all knew two months ago was Dyche. But as a forum we were too snobbish and as a club too. We are now currently in the most awful position for a long time..so basically I think we are ****ed. But if we can get a solid shape, a la Fat Sam
I wouldn't. He lasted about as long at Leipzig as NJ did here. I wouldn't be massively overjoyed if it came to pass, but I always allow for the fact certain managers gel with certain clubs, and is always a chance his built-in Red Bull ethos would work here. Doesn't to me seem like a guy who has demonstrated an ability to hit the ground running, which is what I would like to see, but is way better than some of the names linked. He is also ready to go, whereas negotiations with some of the South American names, plus relocation times etc., would take weeks.
It might have been Dyche, but I'm also less than convinced that the route to salvation for relegation-threatened clubs necessarily runs through a guy who'll organize a defense and manage 30% possession. Sometimes it works, sure (and I tend to believe that Dyche is one of the best remaining exponents of that school of football), but it's not the only route. Newcastle appointed Eddie Howe, who had a reputation for playing expansive football with Bournemouth, to drag them out of the relegation zone, and he did so pretty comfortably. And now he has the best defensive record in the league, because football is weird. Year before that, Brighton opted to stick with Graham Potter's attacking football despite a bad first half (14 points in 18 matches), and they rallied to finish comfortably. What we need is to be better at football, whether that is a grim-faced, well-marshalled defense that scores with its only shot on goal, or an attack-minded squad capable of catching fire for six weeks and dragging us to safety.
I think it shows a lack of ambition by SR if they aren't trying to recruit him although it would need a very large carrot.
