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I hardly think we've got the most secure of futures now, do you? We lost a manager. I hardly think that jeopardizes the future of the club. We'll get a new manager and move on.

We've still got almost an entire season to play. You're happy for us to drop points and edge towards relegation I take it? As long as they're forced out and have no chance to recover from their mistakes... The next few weeks of matches hardly bare much significance in the grand scheme of things. It might not seem like that but, they dont. The priory must be imo for the fans to show in every way possible, and relentlessley, that we want Ashley & co out. What is football about? Wheres the romance? Is it purley a business? Are we all fans so we can have look at nice stats about net spend etc, no I cant think about a replacement, and cant bare Ashley & co bieng here any longer... Are you fucking kidding me? Our next 3 games are Hull, West Ham and Blackburn. We MUST pick up atleast 5 pionts at a very minimum from these teams and ideally it is possible we could pick up all 9. If we have any chance at Europe then every piont will count. Utterly pathetic that your willing to sacrifice our season in a petty and futile attempt to get rid of the man who OWNS the club.

Cacapa - Released Michael Owen - We'll try to keep him but I think it looks increasingly likely he'll leave Steve Harper - He'll stay Nicky Butt - Hopefully he doesn't get offered a new contract Shola Ameobi - Released David Edgar - Released Mark Viduka - Released or put on a pay as you play deal.

Definetly wouldn't mind Zola. Although I'd prefer if we looked at more experienced coach's first.

I think the players will fall into line once the new manager is appionted.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "source" for tomorow articles are Wise or Jimenez. The quotes have obviously been given from the top of the club because the Times and NOTW are running articles with near identical quotes, so thery clearly aren't made up.

To be fair the club look to have scored a MASSIVE PR victory with these back page stories that paint KK as a lunatic basically. Whether what's been written is true or not these stories are gonna have massive influence on how people see the situation.

Jimenez had apparently been advising Ashley well before his official appiontment.

They've just put it out for the benefit of the sunday papers tbh.

I presume those wanting Ashley to come back from holiday were the same people who wanted Keegan back from California when the transfer window started.

Am I the only one who'd be dissapionted if we hired Keegan again if this guy took over. With the 6th richest guy in the world owning us we could have our pick of mangers so I'd be somewhat dissapionted if he hired Keegan instead of Rijkaard, Mancini etc.

No man is bigger than the club, not even Kevin Keegan. He's gone so we need to move on, no point in tearing the club apart trying to get him back or whatever people are trying to achieve. KEVIN KEEGAN is bigger than dennis wise by any measure of stature, success or achievement, this is what is so stupid by ashley. Your piont is what? Keegan just doesn't fit in with our setup of Wise, Jimenez and Vetere. Keegan has chosen to resign, was given the chance to stay but didn't and wasn't prepared to work within our continental setup. I actually believe the continental setup will be much more effective in the long run when recruiting players than 1 manager can ever possibly be with Wise, Vetere and the rest of our scouting setup able to watch players all year round, whereas a manger cannot due to his first team responsibilities. if its such a brilliant system, Why didnt leeds, have that system, when wise and poyet were there. ill tell you why, cos Wise wouldnt have accepted it. Not the fact that Leeds were fucking broke and bought most of their players from England on free or very low fee deals, not exactly needing DoF for that.

It's not a magic system but it will help us in terms of recruiting but it will only help us if we have a manger willing to work under it.

To be honest Wenger is a pure master at his job. What makes him successful though is he isn't buying many high profile players and also he signs some of his youth intake not based on what he has seen but on advice from his scouts. That works because he trusts the judgement of his scouts and also partly because a lot of his signings are youth players.

No man is bigger than the club, not even Kevin Keegan. He's gone so we need to move on, no point in tearing the club apart trying to get him back or whatever people are trying to achieve. KEVIN KEEGAN is bigger than dennis wise by any measure of stature, success or achievement, this is what is so stupid by ashley. Your piont is what? Keegan just doesn't fit in with our setup of Wise, Jimenez and Vetere. Keegan has chosen to resign, was given the chance to stay but didn't and wasn't prepared to work within our continental setup. I actually believe the continental setup will be much more effective in the long run when recruiting players than 1 manager can ever possibly be with Wise, Vetere and the rest of our scouting setup able to watch players all year round, whereas a manger cannot due to his first team responsibilities.

You cannot say they haven't added quality. Gutierrez is one of the best players I have seen play for the club in a long time. Coloccini is pure class.

No man is bigger than the club, not even Kevin Keegan. He's gone so we need to move on, no point in tearing the club apart trying to get him back or whatever people are trying to achieve.

Don't think it will really be huge loss to lose Barton, Smith and Butt.

Actually by the looks of it this could be merged with the "keegan - yesterdays man" thread, sorry.

Am I the only one who thinks the reaction to Keegan leaving is a tad pathetic. He's done good for the club but he is not the be all and end all for the club. I simply see it as we have chosen to go in a different direction in terms of our system with us prefering a cotinental outlook. I don't think the sky will fall just because Keegan is not here, I don't really think it will make a great difference on the outlook for this season, in fact I think this change of direction could improve us in the longer term as there will be no more squabling between the new manager and the board over who signs or leaves. All this talk of a boycott or not buying stuff is pathetic imo, lets wait and see how this new system turns out before we start revolting. Most importantly it's all to play for this season so we need to get behind the team.

No way.

It has to be Hughton. Wise would get fucking massacred. I am being 100% serious when I say I'd fear for his safety if he was in that dugout against Hull.

Seriously, why? If Ashley is to do any right from wrong it has to be someone of extreme pedigree not someone like Poyet. I wouldn't hold your breath for this candidate of "extreme pedigree". Can't think of any manger who has already really made it who'd come here.

I'm totally convinced its this guy. Jiminez got Ramos to leave Sevilla for Spurs and will have little problems coaxing a guy from the Spanish second division to a Premier League team. Half our team are now Spanish speaking and he'll have support from the unholy trinity- something i think KK never had. Just this summer didn't he say that he wouldn't leave Spain until his son finishes school A lot of people say things. I don't think it'd be that hard to get him here if we offered him a big contract and the chance to coach a team with the potential we have. In my opinion he's the outstanding candidate for the job when you consider no British manager will take the job and the very top tier of foreign managers wouldn't come here.

Marcelino is the guy I'd go with. Got Recreativo de Huelva promoted to La Liga and then got them into the top 10. Got Santander into the top six and then resigned saying that was as far as he could take them. Now at Zaragoza in the Segunda Liga.