So much is made of the team coming up from the playoffs not having as much time to prepare and that being a massive reason most come straight back down from the PL... ...similarly, can't help but feel we'll be self harming if we don't get the management team all set up and raring to go in the next week or so. We needed a clear focus on promotion the moment we were mathematically down. Hoping someone can come in with positivity and a clean break from this season to make it all worth it but if this runs into end of may/early June then I think that's a huge mistake - whoever we end up getting. Maybe we were just waiting for Alonso to confirm....
I don’t think you’ll find anyone who disagrees with this, I just don’t think it works in practice. Let’s take Rohl. We could’ve approached him a month ago and he said “sounds interesting let’s wait til end of season and discuss”. Now the end of the season has arrived and he is being linked with other jobs potentially (he should know far more than us if it’s paper talk or any substance). We go back and say “Hey Danny, end of the season, what are you thinking?” He could say sure thing sign me up, or stall if he thinks a better offer may come along in the next couple of weeks. Something like “been a long season, going on holiday with family to reset and have an answer for you when I get back”. See what happens over the next couple of weeks and then make decision. Would you then move away from Rohl and look at other targets because he hasn’t committed by mid May? Or wait to see what his answer is early June? The recruitment side of things can all be happening now. Whoever the manager is is only a cog in that decision making process and Spors is as well. There wil be players we know are leaving, so behind the scenes the squad should be taking a rough shape in Spors head in terms of who stays/who goes and where we need to strengthen
I don’t really get the immediate urgency for a manager, yes it’s nice to focus on potential transfer targets etc, but the players bugger off in the summer, half the current squad won’t be here for a variety of reasons. Other than sorting out the height of their office chair and completing their HR training there isn’t a whole lot of worthwhile work which can be done between now and the start of pre-season.
I think this is what I disagree with. May be simplistic but I think having time to set out who stays/goes, style, partnerships, not miss out on targets etc is crucial especially in the top couple of leagues.
I don't think your view is simplistic. In fact, I think the simplistic view is to think that it doesn't matter.
Ultimately we have no idea what’s going on. The new manager may have already completely agreed everything but they won’t announce him til we are officially not a PL team. Doesn’t mean we can’t be doing stuff knowing that he will be the manager. I think this is what happened with Martin Or we might not have anyone lined up at all and are waiting on our main target to commit/say no and don’t want to move on yet until we have confirmation on that. Or we’re doing **** all and just going to wing it in a months time
Not sure if Rusk is the right option for next season but surely he was a better choice than Juric for rhe rest of this one ?
Think today's sort of ultra defensive tactic is Rusk's speciality. Not gonna really need that in the Championship much (hopefully). Still, he's only lost 50% of his games! That's impressive, considering.
