Who's next after Benitez - Poll reset 25th Jan

[coollino]

Doesn't even say in the article.

Edit: Deleted snip - not sure I can post paywall stuff.

scamps

 

[bullybeef]

Looks like Martinez is dead in the water… thank god!

Out of Rooney and Lampard it’s got to be Rooney all day long.

 

[Toffeelover]

Looks like Martinez is dead in the water… thank god!

Out of Rooney and Lampard it’s got to be Rooney all day long.

Are you sure Bully? What evidence do you have?

 

[Tree13]

It’s been 2 days.

Indeed.

But it's not as if three days ago everything was rosy and there was not even the faintest hint of a need to have some succession planning underway.

From a recruitment methodology viewpoint, it's ridiculously amateur. As an example, let me explain. Niko Kovac was sacked by Monaco two weeks ago. At that moment, a basic assessment should have been made at the club, along the lines of "Are we currently happy with our manager? Is he on a good trajectory? Do we have any concerns? Is it worth doing a bit more research on Kovac to see if he'd be a good fit in the event that Benitez really starts to struggle over the next couple weeks?" Looking at our run of results up to January 3rd / 4th / 5th, the upcoming fixtures at that point and then making sensible estimates of likely results given form at the time, we were obviously already doubting the manager's future. Therefore, the wheels of background research should already have been turning in respect of potential replacements.

Time and again some football clubs just refuse to follow accepted principles of competent business administration, and suffer for it. The more successful clubs tend to make fewer of these errors.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Rooney could very easily be a terrible car crash.

 

[bullybeef]

Are you sure Bully? What evidence do you have?

The fans don’t want him.
Belgium want him for the WC.
We seem to have moved on to other candidates.

 

[allen]

ALso dont ignore, what for me is a key point. When you set up to have no possession (whcih is what Benitez did, game after game). You are going to be defending more, you are going to see more individual mistakes withplayers who aren't brilliant on the ball.If we did get an attacking coach, whomever that may be, we would have more of the ball and the defence should organically improve on the stats because they are not spending every game with backs against the wall.

This is a great point, and the one thing that has been settling my brain over the prospect of a Martinez re-appointment.

 

[JammyP]

Dan Squires in today's Guardian

 

[Noble Savage]

Looks like Martinez is dead in the water… thank god!

Out of Rooney and Lampard it’s got to be Rooney all day long.

I'm torn between Rooney and Dunc myself . We have tried trendy and we have tried experience . Let's try passion and commitment . May be bumpy but I think it's worth a low cost punt .

 

[bullybeef]

Rooney could very easily be a terrible car crash.

Possibly.
He might also turn out to be what we need and work wonders.

We only ever win anything with ex players at the helm.

 

[Toffeelover]

The fans don’t want him.
Belgium want him for the WC.
We seem to have moved on to other candidates.

I hope so.

It took quite a campaign to get shut of him before.

 

[Runub]

Are you sure Bully? What evidence do you have?

Just from a betting perspective you can get 9/2 so that would suggest not coming

 

[allen]

Rooney could very easily be a terrible car crash.

Personally, I think we're on the precipice regardless of who comes in.

It's a properly high-stakes appointment. We desperately need a restructure, and thanks to FFP and our current position, our margin of error is finer than ever.

 

[Carloblues]

I wouldn't he fuming with Rooney being honest.

He'd get my full support, one thing we know about Rooney is he wouldn't let them players get away with the crap they have benleb pulling for years.

Still want kovac though

 

[zook]

Rooney looks like he knows what he's doing but I'd worry about how long it took for another public scandal of his to come out and drag us through the mud with it.