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Mourinho: I would personally erect a barricade around WHL to keep him out, that's how little I want to see that poisonous enemy of football at Spurs
Benitez: Absolutely not. There's a reason he's been out of work since Inter sacked him.
Hiddink: If we can get him, yes. If he can unite a disjointed and fractious Chelsea squad, think what he can do with us.
Klinsmann: No. Did a good job with the German side, but was found lacking in charge of Bayern.
Moyes: He could thrive with funds and players available, and Everton do play good stuff at times, but it is a gamble. As for comments about him working with Championship-level budgets, so did 'Arry before he joined us.

Other options:
Carlo Ancelotti
Louis Van Gaal
Laurent Blanc
Didier Deschamps
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
As for comments about him working with Championship-level budgets, so did 'Arry before he joined us.
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Don't let any pompey fans hear you say that. They will tell you he spent the equivalent of the National Debt, deliberately bankrupting them in the process.
 
HarrysDisciple said:
My view is that we need someone that will keep Modric, Bale and VDV. I cannot see any of them welcoming Moyes or Rodgers. Hiddink is the one we should be pushing the boat out for, would inspire those players to give us another couple of years.
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This is the key for me. Whoever comes in needs to be a high enough profile to convince our main players that they should stay! Hiddick for me out of those candidates all day long!
 
Whoever it was that said we need a big name manager to keep our best players at the club was spot on. Whilst Moyes would do a good job, he's not going to convince Modric, Bale and VDV to stay. To be honest, the only one i can see who could keep them there is Mourinho but i don't think he's got eyes for us. He'll be Chelsea boss again next year, or City if Mancini screws up the title. We've not got a chance, frankly.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Moyes: He could thrive with funds and players available, and Everton do play good stuff at times, but it is a gamble. As for comments about him working with Championship-level budgets, so did 'Arry before he joined us.
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As I said in my earlier post, I don't think we should be taking another risk, as we did with Harry, in bringing in someone who is untried at the level to which we aspire - which, let's face it, is winning the title. We got lucky with Harry, but at the time he came in, we had very little to lose, being bottom of the league, plus we really did not look like an attractive proposition to anyone. Moyes would be a massive risk, and we shouldn't be looking to take those kinds of risks, with the squad we have. If we get the wrong manager in, first Modric, then Bale will leave, and we will sink back down to battling it out with the Evertons of this world for a sniff of Thursday Night football. No thanks!

Same with Rodgers. We've got to get away from our past, where we would gladly offer ourselves up as some kind of charity for up-coming managers. He may prove to be a very adept manager, but why on earth would we want to take the risk that he'll be the next Owen Coyle or Roy Hodgson?

We need and deserve someone at the very top, who has proven himself to be capable of winning things with a disparate collection of highly motivated, top internationals.
 
The irony is, when we did go for proven managers - Santini and Ramos - both failed spectacularly (indeed, Santini's been out of management for over five years, whilst Ramos is toddling around the Russian top flight)

Dick Advocaat is another name I would've added, but he's halfway through a four-year contract with Russia worth £6m a year.
 
I really think the first and most important job any new manager would have is to KEEP the players we have, with CL football would Mod and VdV and Ade be thrilled at Moyes/Rodgers/Martinez?, imo. quite simply, no.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
The irony is, when we did go for proven managers - Santini and Ramos - both failed spectacularly (indeed, Santini's been out of management for over five years, whilst Ramos is toddling around the Russian top flight)

Dick Advocaat is another name I would've added, but he's halfway through a four-year contract with Russia worth £6m a year.
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To be fair though, they're not really proven managers until they've done it in the Premier League in my opinion. Winning countless Serie A titles won't prepare for English football. That's why the only foreign manager that isn't a risk is Mourinho and, at a push, Hiddink, but i don't think we'll get either of those. The only way Mourinho would come to us is if he has no choice. The way AVB is going, it looks like he'll get the Chelsea job fairly soon. Hiddink for me has lost his desire for club football.
 
SSN have just announced that Mourinho no longer wants to leave Madrid at the end of the season, though I wouldn't want him anyway.

My favourites by a distance would be Hiddink and Van Gaal.

Of those realistic options currently in employment I think Rudi Garcia has done a superb job at Lille and they play very good football.

Moyes and Rodgers are definite nos for me.
 
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