Ex-Manager Thread

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Who would you have as our next Manager


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Sam Wallace - chief football writer for the Telegraph - with an update: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...-to-become-everton-manager-as-southampton-tu/

- Koeman has agreed to go to Everton
- Saints weren't prepare to get into a bidding war after hearing what Koeman was offered
- Saints deny that Les Reed and Ronald Koeman had a rocky relationship
- The club are now looking at Unai Emery and Eddie Howe as two leading candidates, among others

Come on, Emery, board.


*waits for at least some appreciation, it's the second time I've run the gag ffs*
 
Tactically, Emery makes the most sense by far. It'd be a very familiar style for us: 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 variants, with a focus on pressing. However, his press is a bit more Ranieri than Poch: Sevilla doesn't wait around when they win back possession.

I'd love to get him (and oddly, it'd be the second time he replaced Koeman as manager). But yeah...he's a very ambitious manager, as most managers are. We might need to reevaluate the five-years-to-CL plan if we want him.
 
That's what interests me. Did he reject Everton (and if so, what were his reasons), or did Everton decide that they preferred Koeman? Different things I read suggest different things.
It's quite possible he wanted European football as well as the money - win or just do well in the Europa with us and he'll be joining a proper big club soon enough. More prestige to be gained faster here, but it requires a huge amount of self belief ( and a willing to turn down mega-money to rebuild Everton). By going to Everton, Koeman has got loads of cash but is basically repeating the last year or two of his career.
 
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Thank you TLL, thank you!

No worries <laugh>

It did make me chuckle the first time but I was in a fret trying to catch up on 10+ pages to see if anything official at the end!

Bet lots of posts have been missed though. The amount of posts per minute we've had at times in the last couple of days has been insane <yikes>
 
Emery league finishes in la liga:
Valencia: 6th (after replacing a sacked koeman), 3rd, 3rd
Sevilla: 5th and 7th
Not to forget those 3 back to back wins of the EL. Not too bad at all :)

Bit of a nit pick but don't think he was there for the first EL.

Certainly very impressive, trying not to get too excited though. Still filing in the 'dream appointment, very unlikely' category.

For now anyway...
 
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If he is at St Mary's he may be there for an interview. I'd be pretty disappointed with De Boer.

Twice you've said that Tom with zero explanation. I'm genuinely interested to know why not? I don't know enough about him to Mae that call, so wonder why you are so adamant.
 
Twice you've said that Tom with zero explanation. I'm genuinely interested to know why not? I don't know enough about him to Mae that call, so wonder why you are so adamant.
He's just not in my top 3 of managers I'd want who we've been linked with. Nothing against him so much, I've just got other preferences.
 
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Bit of a nit pick but don't think he was there for the first EL.

Certainly very impressive, trying not to get too excited though. Still filing in the 'dream appointment, very unlikely' category.

For now anyway...
He was there for the first but got appointed midway through the season, think shortly after Christmas. Still has to get some credit for that!