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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.

It'll be a foreigner. Can't see another English manager up to the job or that would put up with the lack of control over transfers.

Getting more and more frustrated with this now. I'm also losing sympathy with Keegan the longer he drags this on. He either needs to say he is staying or leave, it's not fair to leave the club in limbo like this, no man is biger than the club.

What are you basing Gonzalez being better than Butt on? Have you even seen him play?

Bought anelka for city didnt he? He also bought David Sommeil, Eyal Berkovic, Robbie Fowler and Michael Tarnat. I'm just really playing devil's advocate here really, I'm not particularly of one opinion or another.

His record was extremely mixed at Man City, with him signing some absolute rubbish. Also if the board has been buying the players, I'd say they have done a good job so far in getting Gutierrez and Coloccini. Is it really such a good idea giving Keegan complete control of transfers?

Whether Keegan is staying or not, the board needs to start it's search for a new manger now. If Keegan stays then great, we'll be overjoyed, but if he goes we need a replacement in before long so common sense suggests with Keegan looking like he would leave we need to start looking NOW.

Praying that Keegan decides to stay. Were fucked without him.

Extremely unhappy but will still support the team.

I'm not gonna boycott as such, but I was gonna try and make it up for the Hull game (it was 50/50) but now I'm not going to bother with Keegan gone.

The club have said NOTHING about Keegan's departure despite it being reported for over 5 hours.

If anyone thinks you can win the league anymore without HUGE money men behind you, then you are mistaken. I'd love it if we were taken over by DIC.