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Gallowgate End

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    Interesting

     

    :lol:

     

    You gotta respect the hustle.  No doubt just negotiated a nice little pay rise at his current job based on the NUFC interest, while proceeding to charge NUFC a fee to find an alternative.

     

    If he won’t join we should go for Eduardo Macia he was head of recruitment at Leicester & signed

    Maguire

    Soyuncu

    Pereira

    Ndidi

    Tielemans

    Maddison

     

    Rafa Benitez took Macia from Valencia to Liverpool and has a good working relationship with him Staveley could appoint Macia as sporting director & have Rafa as coach and it would align well.

     

    The fact he had such a great recruitment success recently with Leicester could make him high on their options list.

  2. 3 CL's back to back and his managerial ability is unknown, right.

     

    He is a figurehead for an elite, motivated and determined playing squad at a club with some of the best infrastructure available already in place. He’s doing a very good job with what he’s got but it doesn’t mean he is a top manager who can develop players and develop a club, or tactically outwit a club with better players.

     

    30 years ago there were these up and coming managers called Dalglish and Souness who were in similar positions to what Zidane is in today.

  3. I’m not convinced that Zidane is a top manager who will succeed wherever he goes

     

    :facepalm: :facepalm:

     

    This is not an unreasonable post. There are a lot of unknowns about his managerial ability

     

    Agree.

     

    Not that he would go anywhere near a club 13th in the PL and without European football while at Real Madrid.

     

    People need to get realistic with their picks they aren’t going to be able to get Zidane from Real Madrid to Newcastle on day one.

  4. my only concern with Rafa is his defensive mind set.

     

    If we are to become very rich -then i hope we will play an attacking and positive style of football  :smitten:

     

     

     

    He plays attacking football at top clubs but smartly adapts his approach when he hasn’t got the tools to play open.

     

    He’s the highest goal rate Real Madrid manager in the last 60 years produced their biggest goalscoring win in Champions League history(8 v 0) and their biggest La Liga win in sixty years(10 v 2)

     

    It’s a media myth that he only plays defensive football he adapts his approach to the tools.

     

    Rafa’s goal rate at R Madrid(2.76)

    Rafa’s goal rate at Chelsea(2.06)

    Rafa’s goal rate at Napoli(1.96)

     

    Compare that with Poch’s goal rate at Spurs(1.91)

  5. I wonder if Eddie Howe will ever get a next level club job if Bourenmouth get relegated.

     

    Think he might have missed his chance.

     

    Well he's got at least twenty years left in management.

     

    Yeah maybe.

     

    Just think he should have moved when his reputation was at god level.

  6. Xavi turned us down, according to several media reports. Doesn't want to join mid-season.

     

    Dunno if our board will wait for him, leaving a severaly undermined Valverde in place for the rest of the season, or turn to somebody else.

     

    Literally no point keeping Valverde at all - surely there’s a caretaker manager out there to fill in the interim?

     

    Like a Van Bommel type....

     

     

    Quique Setien.

  7. I’ve always found with Shearer he just basis his opinion on the result, he slates a loss even if the performance was good but praises terrible performances if the result is good.

     

    He’s always been simple minded like that.

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