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44 minutes ago, FinnMag said:

Im surprised if Gerrard is coming. Lampard is good example to him when rushing too early to bigger stages as a manager.  And to us, it shouldnt be too hard to find better manager who keep us up with couple of new quality players from january transfer window.


I’ve got Gerrard in my mind as the bar - I want someone better than him. He’s highly thought of and has a team, but has zero experience halting a relegation slide.

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I think Graham Potter ticks the most boxes at the moment - has current prem experience, seems to have done a very good job at Brighton, is well thought of in the game, plays good football... it’s a big jump pressure wise from Brighton, would be the only thing 

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AVB is out of work? Cool. He has horrendous spells, but he's young and has a modern, methodical approach to the game. 

 

We kind of have the players that would suit his preferred 4-3-3 style of play too, just that the fullbacks are pretty shite. But if there's going to be a DOF on top of all that, then they'd have to be aligned in footballing philosophy.

 

A nice writeup on his Marseille style here.

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Really frustrating that the timing is so bad for this. 

 

Even if you throw a lot of money at someone like Potter I'm not convinced he'd ditch Brighton at this exact moment. Same with Emery and a few other names mentioned.

 

The job (providing we don't go down) would be so much more appealing to a new manager come next summer with a full transfer window to work with. 

 

The mess Bruce has us in at the minute makes it vital we do take someone on now though but it's probably going to have to have to be someone neither the owners or fans would ideally want. 

 

Out of the names mentioned for out of work managers I'd probably just gamble on AVB, I reckon he'd put together a decent side with the funds available after a couple of windows.  

 

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I don’t think it’d take much to get us going. Howe, Martinez, etc have an identity, while they’re not my first choices anymore I still think they’d see us clear given 30 games.

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My friends, we have a winner for the shittest take on who should be our next manager. This Daily Star headline popped up in my FB feed:

 

”Richard Keys calls on Newcastle to snub Antonio Conte and Steven Gerrard for Mark Hughes”

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Martinez hasn't won anything with a 'golden generation' at Belgium because he has no idea how to organise a defensive unit.

 

Both Italy and Belgium came into the tournament with an ageing defence. The difference was that Mancini ensured the Italian back line was never really exposed, Jorginho sat in front, with Barella and Veratti providing plenty of energy and ability on the ball.

 

I appreciate Witsel came into the tournament with an injury, but Martinez did absolutely nothing to reduce his defences exposure, with players frequently able to get a direct run on them.

 

It was the same at Everton. He inherited a solid defence from Moyes, who had played together for years and due to a combination of poor recruitment and coaching, they became an absolute shambles at the back and dropped from the European spots to lower midtable as a consequence.

 

Currently our defence is as unorganised as I've seen it and we don't really have the players that can keep the ball and offer the possession games Martinez likes. He wouldn't even have the initial structure he was afforded at Belgium and Everton.

 

In short I think he would be an absolute disaster.

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7 minutes ago, kisearch said:

Of those that have been mentioned it would be Emery by a mile for me.

 

 

He would organise the defence, get us playing in a proper formation and have us hard to beat. I think he keeps us up comfortably and is also good enough to kick on next season 

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1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

He would organise the defence, get us playing in a proper formation and have us hard to beat. I think he keeps us up comfortably and is also good enough to kick on next season 

 

Yeah, on the whole I think Emery would be the best. Also has some experience with the league.

 

If we are looking at someone that is not under contract at another club, and who is a realistic and achievable hire at the minute,  I think it would have to be AVB as I think of the options available he is most likely to provide us with the balance of a solid defensive unit and decent play going forward.

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2 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Yeah, on the whole I think Emery would be the best. Also has some experience with the league.

 

If we are looking at someone that is not under contract at another club, and who is a realistic and achievable hire at the minute,  I think it would have to be AVB as I think of the options available he is most likely to provide us with the balance of a solid defensive unit and decent play going forward.

Agreed and I think we need them in by the weekend we can’t allow Bruce another game 

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And Bruce who allegedly loves NUFC, refuses to accept that performances are his fault and waits to be sacked so he gets his £8m "reward" for litterally destroying NUFC!!  As he said he never breaks a contract.  Thats because he has made his living by getting sacked from all his jobs and having his contracts paid up!  We are told Ashley paid £8m compo to sheff wednesday.  Its unbelievable that this excuse for a football manager is going to cost NUFC £16m!!!!

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Martinez might be canny if we can also bring in a specialist defensive coach (not Lawrenson).

 

Reading up on AVB  - he seems to have matured a fair bit so could be an option. After Bruce, I'm really warming to the idea of someone young, fresh and modern in the role.

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3 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

The problem is, who worth their salt is going to take a contract until end of season? If we stay up, the goalposts move considerably.

 

I don't think it has to be just till the end of the season. I think we could appoint someone on an 18 month contract (at least), and be able to give them that time.

 

I don't think there'll be any sort of 'crazy' investment in the team in either january or the summer. Lots of change possibly, but measured recruitment, and it just needs someone to keep us up this season, and oversee the start of the changes.

Steady things / consolidate next season, make sure we aren't in a relegation battle again, then the summer after could be the start of the real push on.

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I don't really know enough about any of the candidates but Fonseca sounds like he could be fun with his attacking style.

 

Get him in, buy a few promising young players and just go all out attack, fuck it :lol:

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2 hours ago, kisearch said:

Of those that have been mentioned it would be Emery by a mile for me.

 

 

 

I would get rid of all our coaches including Jones and bring in a set of coaches who know what they are doing 

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