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Moyes Potential Replacement

Who do you want? - being realistic

  • Roberto Martinez

    Votes: 221 13.8%
  • Vitor Pereira

    Votes: 594 37.2%
  • Neil Lennon

    Votes: 40 2.5%
  • Di Matteo

    Votes: 58 3.6%
  • Slaven Bilic

    Votes: 73 4.6%
  • Michael Laudrup

    Votes: 410 25.7%
  • Malky Mackay

    Votes: 33 2.1%
  • From within the club

    Votes: 60 3.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 108 6.8%

  • Total voters
    1,597
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The first thing we have to accept is that the manager we´re getting is one who´s willing to work on a very small budget.

Anyone else, including Benitez, Pereira, Redknapp, Laudrup, can be discounted immediately.
 
I think Martinez isn't the answer, but he may be the best of a bad bunch

There's no manager who can come in and keep us at the level we're at outside of one of the "big names" and I don't think any of thsoe are coming here due to the budgetary constraints
 
The first thing we have to accept is that the manager we´re getting is one who´s willing to work on a very small budget.

Anyone else, including Benitez, Pereira, Redknapp, Laudrup, can be discounted immediately.

didn't he sign Michu for 2 million
 

I don't know how old you are mate but in my lifetime we've had Kendall the first time who was great, Moyes who has done ok, Billy Bingham who had us playing good football and then a load of old pony. So excuse me if I'm a bit nervous about what a new manager might bring. That said, i would far prefer Yakin to Lennon, Hughes, O'Neill, Allardyce etc.

Mate, I'm talking about people screaming relegations a cert. The next fella would have to make this side as bad as Wigans in the space of a season to make that happen. I make us ten players out of eleven better than them.

Are we really going to sell 10 good players and buy a load of ****e in one season. Is there a manager so, so poor he could get a side with the worlds best left back two good CB's an excellent RB More than a few good midfielders and decent options up front relegated???

It'd need every single player to have a Jelavic season at the exact same time.
 
Glenn Hoddle

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The speed at which all this has happened means it's highly unlikely Moyes hasn't known about it for at least a little while. If we don't move swiftly to replace him it'll be pretty clear Moyes didn't tell Kenwright until the last minute. I can't help but be a little bit annoyed at that.

I hope we don't do anything like the weird X-Factor-ish rubbish Liverpool did last year, inviting every average manager under 45 to have an interview and getting mostly rejected. Still, none of the obvious candidates get me all that excited:

Laudrup: He's taken a decent footballing side, although one often toothless, and made them a little better without compromising their style. Won a trophy in his first season. Has nice hair and a handsome face that belies his years. Bit of a journeyman, though: if he came to us it would mean he's quit his last four clubs after a single year or less. What we absolutely cannot afford to do is play this short-term. It would be a total disaster.

Martinez: Nice chap who plays nice football. Impossibly young considering his experience, and has managed to get an unappealing rabble of a squad generally kicking the ball to the correct players. However, he's had four years at Wigan and hasn't actually improved them in terms of league placement. He's been largely inept at figuring out a way to sort his defence, and it looks like he'll see Wigan relegated next week. His hairline shows a similar defensive weakness, although he has a sweet face.

Benitez: Let's be honest; he's a good manager. If he came we'd probably do pretty well, even better than with Moyes. However, he's known as somebody who pressures boards for transfer budgets, and the impossibility of being lavish in the market is unlikely to appeal to him. There's also a few painful examples of looking like a massive t*t in interviews, and the fahct he's the type of FSW that stands watching from the dark corner of the dining room in the Benidorm Pink Flamingo while young Pablo intimates to your wife the orgasms he will bestow upon her.

Mackay: Basically the new Moyes - very similar career path and background. He'd be wise, I think, to snap our hand off if he was offered the job. At least that's what the likes of McDermott, Houghton and Adkins might tell him. But he's done well at Cardiff and there's a chance he'll want to stick with them. He has them playing a solid sort of football that makes him more like a Lambert than a Martinez/Rodgers guy, or, in fact, a Moyes guy. Looks a bit like an 80s cyborg.


Not sure who else? A foreign manager seems unlikely, although Vítor Pereira has been mentioned. Not sure about him: he inherited a dominant Porto team but lost a few key player too. He's handsome enough, I suppose.

Funny, but I think the real evidence of David Moyes's managerial quality won't come from Old Trafford. If he does well, any praise will be diluted by the fact he inherited Ferguson's legacy, and had the old whiskey [Poor language removed] at his shoulder throughout. How another manager does with the squad he built might say a lot more.

N.B: I'm ignoring Hughes and Allardyce. They can [Poor language removed] right off.
 
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Mick McCarthy has done a good job at Ipswich, stabilised them and moved them on a bit. He's a massively underrated manager that I'd love to see given a chance with us.
 

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