The Managerial Merry Go Round™

[KaKa]

For what it's worth, SSN are saying Real Madrid have approached Pochettino.

 

Well this makes me nervous ... Levy will be sniffing around Rafa as a replacement you'd think.

[Guest chopey]

If either Liverpool or Spurs lose their manager to Madrid then I think we'll have David Moyes in our dugout stinking up the place.

[Paully]

If either Liverpool or Spurs lose their manager to Madrid then I think we'll have David Moyes in our dugout stinking up the place.

 

Yep - I said last night if Klopp or Poch go to Real then I fear the worst for Rafa being here next season  :'(

[Magpie]

Really? I get the distinct impression that they both think they are better than Rafa these days. Quite incorrectly may I add.

[Guest alijmitchell]

Spurs I worry about. Klopp will be going nowhere like.

[Collage]

Didn't Poch just sign a long-term contract?

[Ketsbaia]

Can't even see Pochettino leaving.

[Fedyan]

Guti, Santi Solari, maybe Conte or Sarri. Cannavaro's name also has been added. Rather unexpected decision by Zizou, so one would assume Perez will be keen to add someone familiar with the club's mystique and inner politics.

 

Our hacks are stunned that they are yet to hear a negative comment from anyone in Italian football about Mancini's appointment as a national team coach. The guy finished fifth with the most expensive squad (and the league's biggest payroll) with a ton of former firsts earners deemed not fancy enough out on loan playing incredibly boring football and complaining about the need to spend even more money, yet people would much rather discuss how he fared in England and Italy. Probably, the same people as those who still think that Del Bosque is a crap manager because of his Besiktas spell

 

What is it with that Silva? Hull relegated, Watford treated like a non-entity once Everton approached him last season, got fired for crap results. If they are so loaded, why not appoint someone like Blanc, Boas, Van Gaal or Prandelli? Far more pedigree, decent records and actual accomplishments in the biggest leagues. Weird. Smells like a boon or bust move.

 

Shocked to see nobody approach Pardew yet, dark ages of anti football are upon us then, too few chairmen want to entertain the public with brave front foot football where skill is cherished and players of actual ability are put in the position to dazzle and amaze at the very top of their abilities. Disgusting.

[Magpie]

Leeds have sacked Heckingbottom apparently

[54]

Biesla being linked apparently.

[Cheshire Mag]

Biesla being linked apparently.

 

Already in talks apparently

[gdm]

Guti apparently interested in St Mirren job

[Guest Howaythetoon]

I could see Spurs being massively interested in Rafa if they were to lose Poch as with that squad, he’d deliver success and is someone with integrity and would be a long-term with regards to the future. Liverpool if they lost Klopp would probably look for someone similar, although LFC fans would welcome Rafa back with open arms and would knowing them probably start a campaign.

[Kaizero]

Guti apparently interested in St Mirren job

 

I'd love it, purely for St Mirren to come out of losing their manager to Sunderland as a strengthened team

[joeyt]

Steve Evans with some classic PFM quotes this morning about the Leeds job

 

The current favourite to take over at Leeds is former Argentina and Marseille boss Marcelo Bielsa. However, Evans believes the club should consider managers with more experience in the second tier.

 

He told Sky Sports News: "They're perhaps going to an Argentinian (Bielsa). I think his reputation in the game on a worldwide basis is phenomenal. But will he know what it's like going to the New York Stadium in Rotherham on a Tuesday night? I'm not so sure.

 

"But I'm looking at Steve Bruce and Mick McCarthy - English managers with track records of getting out of the Championship - and why are they not knocking on those doors?"

[54]

Mick McCarthy at Leeds would be laughs tbh.

[afar]

I have no fear if Madrid go for Poch, whatever happens with Ashley I firmly believe that Rafa will want to see out the year left on his contract at least.

[Collage]

Biesla being linked apparently.

 

Already in talks apparently

 

I love Bielsa, but it'll be The Damned Utd, Part 2

[Nobody]

Potter to Swansea. Very interesting to see how he does there, I'd be very excited if I was a Swansea fan.

[The College Dropout]

Think Rafa’s time at the bigger clubs might be over as a full-time manager. 

 

The trend is the exciting young manager.

 

It’s when those don’t work midseason, where 18 month contracts for Rafa I might be scared of. 

[Guest Howaythetoon]

Think Rafa’s time at the bigger clubs might be over as a full-time manager. 

 

The trend is the exciting young manager.

 

It’s when those don’t work midseason, where 18 month contracts for Rafa I might be scared of. 

 

I personally think that if Rafa wasn’t attached, he would have been interviewed for the Arsenal job. If Spurs or Liverpool we’re to lose their respective manager’s I think he would be pretty high up on their list too as those clubs want someone who can work a project, who can also at the same time deliver results and maybe even trophies which for Spurs and Liverpool are kind of like an added bonus at the moment in their development or were before their respective managers started to show the reason why they were appointed in the first place.

 

It’s your smalle clubs that are more likely to look at young and up and coming coaches or former players with no experience.

 

We all know Rafa is far too good for us, but he’s at a big club which he could develop towards the level Spurs and Liverpool are at quite easily if backed and that’s what he would live to do, but sadly our owner has other ideas.

 

He will see out the remaining year, keep us up after a modicum of backing and then leave.

[toon25]

What’s quite interesting these days is how the bigger clubs are developing an infrastructure that essentially doesn’t need a ‘manager’ (at least in the traditional sense) to run the club. Those clubs will run on regardless; all that they need is a decent coach. I don’t think we’ll ever see another manager build a legacy akin to say Ferguson again.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

What’s quite interesting these days is how the bigger clubs are developing an infrastructure that essentially doesn’t need a ‘manager’ (at least in the traditional sense) to run the club. Those clubs will run on regardless; all that they need is a decent coach. I don’t think we’ll ever see another manager build a legacy akin to say Ferguson again.

 

I think the manager is the key, but too many appoint the wrong man and go through a succession of managers. As always the manager is the most important man and getting the right one is key. Its the manager that makes it work and not the system. Just look at Swansea? We will never see the likes of Fergie or Wenger again because it’s too cut throat and more fickle than ever on and off the stands and in the media.

 

You appoint Rafa and give him full reigns and you get success, you appoint Pardew and tell him to just coach and manage and it falls apart. Do the same with Rafa and you cut your nose off to spite your face.

[The College Dropout]

I don’t mean inexperienced. 

 

I mean moreso ‘the hot manager’.  The Tuchels.  Conte. Sarri is the same age as Rafa but I reckon he’s more likely to land a top job than Rafa. 

 

Spurs and Liverpool imo won’t go for him. Arsenal probably should’ve went for him. I don’t class hem as a top team anymore. 

[The College Dropout]

The most important person at a football club is the Owner/person controlling the wider company and setting the objectives and strategy.

 

Levy’s been the mastermind of Spurs ascent where Kroenke is at fault for Arsenal’s demise.