Jäger, the rubbish comment is completely valid about the thread. The vast majority of Jack input on this thread is wumming. You raise points for actual discussion but your fans point of view is being cheapened by the drivel that Phil and project started the thread with.
Everton are a bigger much more established PL side than both of us. They won't pay Laudrups fees so he's a non starter anyway. After Brendan last year your fans shouldn't really be shouting about 'he's said he doesn't want to go' though. I think MM is a perfect fit for them but that also explains the media doing so much 2+2 equals type reporting.
The radio link that Phil posted earlier contained an expert opinion that had apparently been gathered by reading the BBC sport website.
If he goes we're still in the PL and just like everyone else we'll have 38 games to stay there. The quality of the recruitment is the key but Swansea know that better than anyone. So far VT has got rid of DJ and replaced him with Malky. He employed exactly the right man last time to built the squad we needed and get us promoted.
Do you think a PL side with a £25m plus budget will be short of options for a new man?
True - only thing I tell myself is that they weren't as explicit as this statement. Then again Rodgers's whole "I'm here to build a career not destroy it" nonsense does teach a lesson about trusting what these folk are saying.
You are right about the media joining the dots - why else was Laudrup there? Manager of a smaller club, doing well, that'll be him linked then.
It would be interesting to speculate who would be a worthwhile appointment should he go - but I remember snapping at someone who suggested that when Rodgers was linked to Liverpool. Calling him WUM etc etc and I wouldn't want t be a hypocrite. That said, whilst a negative would be that a manager would have to come in and work out the current squad before finding replacements, a positive would be that it would prevent sentimentality coming into play and keeping players you shouldn't.
Track record is right in hiring, as you point out, and, if he has any sense, he will go for a similar manager who will know how to use the players you have and what you need to grow.
That said, I put on another link that it's a shame that (like us when we went up) that these sorts of things take the sheen off of what should have been a summer of sheer joy.
May be best to move on to thinking about the possible transfers and think "what will be will be" as far as the manager.
Kenwynne Jones for 7m. A bit rich but would be a good focal point. I would advise players with that bit of creative spark to feed him.
, and it matters little to the other 18 clubs in the premier league. And if Mark Hughes ever comes near your club I would question the sanity of the people who appointed him.
