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Realistically who would you have? If Citeh can get Sven, that's the minimum calibre of manager we should be looking at. Assuming we are aiming for European football once more, it'd be nice to have someone with a little experience of it. ...again it comes down to ambition, research and selling th club in the correct manner. There seems a slim chance it might not be Nappy. ...of course it might then be McClown. Waiting with baited breath. City is the one example I don't think anyone can argue with. Spurs less so because they were in a false position when they sacked Jol and always have the bright lights of London. But City were going nowhere just like we are. They finished 14th last year. A mid-table team with a couple of good players, but with 'no chance' of attracting a world renowned manager like Sven-Goran Eriksson. They got rich, new ownership and got in a manager lots of people mocked but all knew was of top class calibre. They now look set for good things. We need to try the same. Well, I suppose we could wait until the next time a world-class manager ruins his reputation by catastrophically failing at the England job. Capello in 2 years?

Well, so much for this then. He's an idiot really. 90,000 pound a week? Maybe he just didnt' want to come and this is his way of saying no.

Very good player, but a complete ass. Probably my least favorite footballer attitude-wise. What are we trying to collect the biggest asses from every squad now, is that it?

Look, if the stuff on SSN is true, then obviously Ashley is in love with Redknapp and will lavish him with support/money etc. Given that one of the failings of the Allardyce regime was his ambivalent relationship with the board, Redknapp could very easily be successful given 100% backing from Ashley, Mort, and Ashley's checkbook. The man's a decent manager, and he's taken a relegation-threatened team and turned it into arguably the best side out of the pack that's hunting for 5th place. I'd rate him slightly higher than Sam, much higher if we take into account the fact that he has a reputation for "good football." I'm not saying that he's "the one" who'll bring balance to the Force and take us to the top six, but he deserves a chance. We dare not have this mentality that we'll immediately turn against any appointment that isn't Mourinho or Lippi or some other unrealisticlaly qualified foreign manager. If he comes, let's back him.

Hiddink in the summer after Euros! Sorry. Drunk.

I figure if Mourinho doesn't have us in the top 7 by the end of the season fans will find ways to hate him as well. "Useless without Roman's checkbook..." "Completely unproven in a top league aside from Chelsea." "Chelsea doing just fine without him..." "Avraam Grant is a much better manager. Plays better football too."

would it be spamming if I started a "I will do something crazy if the club appoints Mourinho" thread as well?

I've got nothing against fans of other clubs coming here to offer their opinions, but honestly, can we just ban the one that only come here to gloat whenever this club is in crisis? Not that I think we've got a chance of getting Mourinho or Lippi, but there's no reason we should have to deal with this sort of tone tbh.

Now that Big Sam's been sacked, what's going to happen to his signings? I'm not even worried about the ones that've been shit, like Rozhenal, Smith, and Geremi. They'll either get better or be frozen out of the team by the new manager. (I'd hope that we'd see some improvement from Geremi, at least.) But what about those who've been playing well, like Beye and Faye? Will Big Sam leaving have a negative effect on them? I'm particularly worried about Faye. He seems to have a close relationship with Big Sam, and if I recall correctly he wanted out of Bolton as soon as Big Sam signed for us. Would hate for his preformances to go down now that Big Sam's gone.

Non-Shearer, Non-Foreign... Dare I even speculate? This space is reserved for everyone to give words to the excruciating pain they would feel if we indeed did the unthinkable and appointed Steve McClaren as new manager. Mr. Mort, I hope you're watching Well, I can't really threaten to stop going to games... So err... I suppose I'll burn my replica shirts and stop buying any more. Anyone else want to join in?

He calls Geremi his second daddy in that video. He's signing for sure. Well, certainly hope his footballing skills don't take after his father.

Would be an absolutely fantastic signing... ...Which means I expect a report that the bid has been rejected or that he's off to Pompey within the hour.

So, are we ever getting linked to anyone this winter? Barely even feels like a transfer window. At least last year we had plenty of unsubstantiated rumors to laugh at.

The fact that nobody on the list has polled more than 10% is a bit telling of supporter opinion these days isn't it?

It's always better to get these teams in the early rounds. If we're going to get knocked out by one of the Top 4, I'd rather it be now than after we'd invested a lot of time into the Cup. And on the off chance that we win, it'll be a huge morale booster. Wish it was a home tie, but otherwise, I'm happy enough.

From a more recent point of view, Solano would have been an immense help right about now.

I'm sorry, but if we're going to boot out 10 or so players who exactly are we going to be playing football with? I figure we can afford to lose about 4~5 players (Butt, Ramage, Carr, Ameobi for me) and try to replace them. Anything beyond that would force us to rebuild the squad all over again, which would completely screw over any semblance of chemistry we have right now, which kind of totally defeats the purpose of giving Sam time to put together the squad. Newcastle fans always amaze me. Smith, Viduka, Barton, Geremi, and Rozhenal already useless after half a season? Why don't we just sign all our players to rolling contracts from now on and bin them when they're not setting the league alight within a month.

On loan in the Portuguese league, no international caps at any level at age 26, career scoring record of 37/182, with most of the goals coming from the Brazilian league. ...Sounds more like our own Cho Jae-Jin to me.

People over at the spurs site are claiming its us. If this happens, ill be the most unhappiest ive ever been regarding spurs transfers since the time we were linked with Alan f****** Smith. Unhappy about Matt Taylor? Save your tears mate. You'll be able to put them to much better use when Harry Kewell signs. He's a right back, no? Was under the impression they needed one of those. taylor plays left mid but can play left back. Actally he's naturally a left wing back but no one plays that system no more. Kaka you chat s*** mate Ah, thought he was a RB/RM. I suppose you could use a LM, although you could probably do better. And he'd also make your fifth LB.

People over at the spurs site are claiming its us. If this happens, ill be the most unhappiest ive ever been regarding spurs transfers since the time we were linked with Alan f****** Smith. Unhappy about Matt Taylor? Save your tears mate. You'll be able to put them to much better use when Harry Kewell signs. He's a right back, no? Was under the impression they needed one of those.

Monaco can have Emre

Give him money! mackems.gif And people wanted a reason to why its a good idea to sack him now!!! The thing is, Nolan's the sort of player you can see him going for isn't it? A midfielder who creates f*** all but gives a 100% and gets stuck in, the people who value a team full of grafters should love this one. I would be hugely disappointed. FYP. It's a load of bollocks anyway. This is speculation on speculation. Let's hope you're right Davidos. Why sell Parker if you're just going to turn around and sign Nolan 4 months later. To replace Barton? True, I suppose he can be forgiven for failing to anticipate Barton throwing himself in jail. Still, would rather have Parker back tbh.

Give him money! mackems.gif And people wanted a reason to why its a good idea to sack him now!!! The thing is, Nolan's the sort of player you can see him going for isn't it? A midfielder who creates f*** all but gives a 100% and gets stuck in, the people who value a team full of grafters should love this one. I would be hugely disappointed. FYP. It's a load of bollocks anyway. This is speculation on speculation. Let's hope you're right Davidos. Why sell Parker if you're just going to turn around and sign Nolan 4 months later.

Would love him here. Hopefully our improved fitness regimen means he won't break down instantly like I'd expect all injury prone players to do under the previous regime. And what's this about 3/4 mil? Ladies and gents, if you want to correctly guess the asking price for young english players these days, just take whatever you think is reasonable and add 10 (million).

Wait, wait, wait... hold the phone... a whole two goals?! In 90 minutes?! That's outrageous. It can't be done! Funny, Roeder said almost the exact same thing around this time last year. ...Hope that isnt' an omen.