Should we get promoted who could we realistically get as manager in 2010/2011?

[Guest michaelfoster]

So should we get promoted and we decide we need a new manager to survive/progress in the PL but as Ashley is tight as a nuns fanny so wont pay compensation, we need to look for someone who wont need to pay compensation too.

 

Ive just went and found as many unemployed managers as possible, some might be a rubbish and some would never touch us with a 10 inch barge pole & ive probably missed people off but nevermind.

 

The following are currently unemployed:

 

Name                              Nat       Age      Former Clubs Managed                                                                                                                                    Unemployed Since

 

Alan Shearer                  ENG       38        Newcastle (Caretaker)                                                                                                                                           May 09

Kevin Keegan                ENG        58       Newcastle x2, Man City, England, DOF Fulham,                                                                                                       Sept 08

Tony Adams                   ENG       42        Wycombe, Portsmouth                                                                                                                                            Feb 09     

Gareth Southgate          ENG       38       Middlesbrough                                                                                                                                                         Oct 09

Alan Curbishley              ENG       51       Charlton, West Ham                                                                                                                                                Sept 08

Paul Jewell                     ENG       44       Bradford, Sheff Wed, Wigan, Derby                                                                                                                         Dec 08

Steve Coppell                ENG        53       Crystal Palace x4, Man City, Brentford, Brighton, Reading                                                                                      May 09

David O'Leary                IRE         51       Leeds, Aston Villa                                                                                                                                                    July 06

Mark Hughes                 WAL       45       Wales, Blackburn, Man City                                                                                                                                      Dec 09

Mark Wotte                    NED       48       Den Haag x2, Lisse, Utrech, Den Bosch, Willem II, Ismaily, RKC, Al-Ahil, Southampton, DOF of Feyenoord             June 09

Paco Flores                    ESP        57       Espanyol, Zaragoza, Almeria, Gimnastic                                                                                                                  June 07     

Co Adriaanse                 NED        61      Zwolle, Den Haag, Willem II, Ajax, AZ, Porto, Metalurg, Al-Saad, Salzburg & DOF Ajax                          May 09                                                                                                                    

Marcelino                       ESP         43       Lealtad, Real Sporting, Recreativo, Racing, Zaragoza                                                                            Dec 09                                   

Marco Van Basten          NED        44       Holland & Ajax                                                                                                                                                          May 09

Victor Fernandez            ESP        48       Zaragoza x2, Tenerife, Celta, Betis, Porto                                                                                                                Jan 08

Michael Laudrup             DEN       45       Brondby, Getafe, Spartak Moscow, was also Ass Manager of Denmark                                                                    Apr 09

Lorenzo Serra Ferrer      ESP       56       Mallorca, Betis x2, Barcelona, AEK                                                                                                                              Feb 08

Klaus Toppmoller            GER       57       Frankfurt, Bochum, Leverkusen, HSV & Georgia & spell as DOF of Kaiserslauten                                                       Dec 07

Roberto Donadoni          ITA        45       Napoli                                                                                                                                                                          Oct 09

 

[Pilko]

Realistically? Hughton or Kinnear, take your pick.

[matta]

keegan! 

[cp40]

keegan! 

[wyn davies]

voted other as it depends whose gonna work with Ashley assuming he's still here.

[Skirge]

Hughton will be given the task at keeping us up

[David28]

Keegan if we get new owners. This as well as Shearer. I would prefer the first under the right circumstances above anybody else tbh as the last time I really enjoyed us playing football was under KK.

 

Under Ashley Hughton will be kept as manager as long as possible imo.

[ChrisJbarnes]

If we get promoted, then we should and will stick with Hughton. Hes not going to be the best manager in the premiership, but hed deserve a shot at it. Having said that, Id find it difficult to say no to Mark Hughes to be honest. If we sack Hughton, wed be deservedly slaughtered and the managerial merry go round starts again. Not that I think that we should extend his contract. He is the right choice in the short term.

[David28]

Just had another look at this list, is anybody on here seriously considering Toppmöller? One of the worst managers I've ever seen imo. 

[TRon]

Curbishley would be the best shout, realistically Keegan isn't in the running. Maybe an unknown foreigner or up and coming English boss who plays good football. There really isn't much out there.

[Dave]

Honestly couldn't give a fuck. Until Ashley goes, we're going nowhere.

[Northerngimp]

Nothing is going to improve while pork pie is still here.

[johnnypd]

i dont think hughton deserves a shot at anything. there's no room for sentiment, and you don't give people contracts to 'reward' them, you give out contracts because you think the person in question is the right choice for the future. the last time we 'rewarded' a manager and said they had earned their chance was roeder. let's not make the same mistake again please.

 

the decision process should have nothing to do with questions of loyalty or rewarding past deeds, but a hard-headed look at what is needed to keep us up - in the event we do secure promotion. if there's another manager out there who would seem to give us a better shot at that, then it would be daft to stick with hughton.

[Guest sicko2ndbest]

I fear our current crop of players would struggle to cope with a foreign manager.

 

I like Co Adriaanse, but for our current crop Hughes or Shearer would be the best option

[themanupstairs]

John Hughes - doing a great job at Hibs

[JH]

Honestly couldn't give a f***. Until Ashley goes, we're going nowhere.

 

This.

 

And that's about as likely as cp40 murdering Kevin Keegan.

[brummie]

 

John Hughes

 

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

[themanupstairs]

 

John Hughes

 

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

 

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[Gash]

 

John Hughes

 

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

[Guest firetotheworks]

The system doesn't work so it's all a bit pointless saying who I'd like when they're a cog in a machine that's on fire and is producing shit. That said, Mark Hughes I guess.

[brummie]

 

John Hughes

 

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCqcMOB6STc

 

John Hughes (RIP) director of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[STM]

Roy Hodgson

[Yorkie]

We'd have to pay someone off to get someone 'good enough', which throws realism out of the window. We're sticking with Hughton anyway. Being typically negative, he'll get the sack/resign before Christmas imo.

 

That said, being atypically positive, someone in here said yesterday that the thing that gives the likes of Birmingham/Burnley a boost when they come up - is team spirit, togetherness, etc. But i just don't think we have enough quality nor the attraction for good players. Hughton's really gonna have to prove himself in the transfer market and dig out some bargains if he's gonna have any hope of keeping his job/keeping us up next year.

[Neil]

We'd have to pay someone off to get someone 'good enough', which throws realism out of the window. We're sticking with Hughton anyway. Being typically negative, he'll get the sack/resign before Christmas imo.

 

That said, being atypically positive, someone in here said yesterday that the thing that gives the likes of Birmingham/Burnley a boost when they come up - is team spirit, togetherness, etc. But i just don't think we have enough quality nor the attraction for good players. Hughton's really gonna have to prove himself in the transfer market and dig out some bargains if he's gonna have any hope of keeping his job/keeping us up next year.

 

Team spirit and togetherness will be the key factors in whether you stay up or not IMO. As much as better players help, if you can go into the season with momentum, it'll have the same sort of affect. Just look at Hull's squad that stayed up last year.

[neesy111]

it's amazing that the first fat bastard turned down Hitzfeld and Mancini and didn't even consider them, shows what a cunt he was